Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore concealed under a mountain of runs Sunrisers Hyderabad won by making a historic score
In the IPL 2024 season, a historic match was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). In the match, Hyderabad team made a historic score of 287 runs and defeated RCB team badly on its home ground.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), captained by Pat Cummins, is scoring heaps of runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season. For the second time this season, he has broken the record of highest runs scored in IPL history.
Sunrisers defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 25 runs at their home M Chinnaswamy Stadium in the match played on Monday (April 15). In the match, RCB under the captaincy of Faf du Plessis had got a historic target of 287 runs. In response, Virat Kohli’s RCB team could score only 262 runs after losing 7 wickets and lost the match. Dinesh Karthik played an inning of 83 runs in 35 balls for the team.
While captain du Plessis scored 62 runs on 28 balls and Virat Kohli scored 42 runs on 20 balls. But no one could make the team win. Pat Cummins took 3 wickets for Hyderabad. While Mayank Markandey took 2 wickets and T Natarajan took 1 wicket.
Sunrisers broke their record, made this historic score. Batting first after losing the toss in the match, Sunrisers made a good start and made a big score of 287 runs after losing 3 wickets. This has become the biggest score in IPL history. Earlier in the same season, Hyderabad team had made a historic score of 277 runs against Mumbai Indians. Now he has broken his own record.
In the match, opener Travis Head scored a century in 39 balls. In this way the record of fastest century in IPL history was saved from being broken. This record in IPL is held in the name of West Indies star cricketer Chris Gayle (30 balls). Head hit 8 sixes and 9 fours while scoring his century in 39 balls. His strike rate was 255. Travis Head played a total of 102 runs in 41 balls in the match. Apart from him, Heinrich Klasen scored 67 runs in 31 balls. For RCB, Loki Ferguson took 2 wickets and Reece Topley took 1 wicket.
RCB’s 5th defeat, Hyderabad scored a hat-trick of wins
RCB, captained by Faf du Plessis, has played 7 matches so far this season, out of which it has won only 1. This is RCB’s 5th consecutive defeat. For this match, Du Plessis had made 2 changes in his playing-11. Glenn Maxwell and Mohammad Siraj were left out. Whereas Loki was given a chance to Ferguson. On the other hand, Hyderabad team has won 4 out of 6 matches and lost 2. This is the third consecutive victory of this team.
Whenever Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad have come face to face, a very exciting match has been witnessed. A total of 24 matches have been played between the two so far, in which Hyderabad won 13 matches. Whereas Bengaluru won in 10. One match remained inconclusive.
