Hyderabad won the match Bangalore  by 9 wickets in 72 balls.

IPL: Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 9 wickets in the 36th match of IPL 2022 played at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. This is Hyderabad’s fifth consecutive win in this season. At the same time, this is the third defeat of RCB.

After losing the toss, opting to bat first, the Royal Challengers Bangalore team was all out for just 68 runs. After this Sunrisers Hyderabad chased down the target in just 8 overs for the loss of one wicket. With this win, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s team has reached the second number in the points table. However, RCB’s team is still in the top four.

This is the fifth consecutive win for the captain Kane Williamson’s team, which has lost the first two matches. The team moved to second place in the table with 10 points from five wins in seven matches. At the same time, the team of RCB remains in fourth place.

Jansen took 25 runs in four overs while Natarajan took three wickets giving 10 runs in three overs. Jagdish Suchit gave 2 for 12 while Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umran Malik got one success each. Only two batsmen of RCB could score runs in double digits. Suyas Prabhudesai contributed 15 and Glenn Maxwell contributed 12 runs.

Hyderabad opener Abhishek Sharma chased down the small target with fearless batting. He scored 47 runs in 28 balls with the help of eight fours and one six. Williamson 16 while Rahul Tripathi, who won the team for a six, remained unbeaten on seven.

Abhishek hit two fours each against Hazlewood in the fourth over and Harshal Patel in the fifth over after hitting sixes and fours in the third over by Mohammad Siraj. He also sent Hazlewood’s ball across the boundary twice in the last over of the powerplay. Williamson hit his first four in this over, which made the team’s score 56 runs without any loss after six overs. In the eighth over of the innings, Harshal dismissed Abhishek and broke his 64-run partnership for the first wicket with Williamson.