Faf du Plessis-led Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) won against Pat Cummins-led Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in the 41st match of the Indian Premier League 2024 (IPL 2024) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Thursday, April 25. . , Uppal, Hyderabad.
Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis won the toss and batted first in the match, giving RCB a good start. Du Plessis didn’t score much, but Kohli managed to reach a half-century, albeit very slowly. Rajat Patidar was RCB’s best player as he hit a sensational 19-ball half toss to help his side post a total of 206/7.
The RCB bowlers defended the overall score and were spot on from the first over as they dismissed the dangerous Travis Head early on. RCB picked four more wickets in the powerplay and dismissed all the big guns. Then SRH’s middle and lower order batters tried to fight back but it wasn’t enough for the win. In the end, RCB restricted SRH to 171/8 and won the match by 35 runs.
At the post-match presentation ceremony, Faf du Plessis said that they had had some good performances in recent games but had ended up on the losing side, which had led to low confidence in the dressing room. Faf you explained:
“In the last two games we showed great signs of fighting. SRH game was 270 plus, we got 260. KKR game too – 1 run. We were close for a while but you have to win games to get confidence. “As a group you can’t sleep better tonight, you can’t give the group confidence.
Faf du Plessis noted that Virat Kohli received much-needed support from the team’s other batters after putting in heavy work in the first half of IPL 2024. Faf du Plessis also described RCB’s home ground – Chinnaswamy – as a big disappointment to them as it is a graveyard for bowlers. Faf du Plessis stated:
“The competition is so strong, the teams are so strong, that if you are not at 100 percent you get injured. There are more guys scoring runs now. In the first half of the tournament, only Virat scored runs. Greeny will be the one to score runs now.” It’s a big disappointment for him, Chinnaswamy. We tried to find a recipe for it.
The last match between RCB and SRH IPL 2024 was a run-fest
In their first match of the 2024 Indian Premier League, both teams’ batters took advantage of most of the conditions on offer at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and annihilated the bowlers to post the highest IPL total and the highest match aggregate in all T20s on a record of 549 runs.
Batting first, SRH scored 287/3 on the back of Travis Head’s remarkable century and Heinrich Klaasen’s brilliant half century, with Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad and Aiden Markram contributing with significant runs. Only two RCB bowlers were among the wickets, with Lockie Ferguson picking two wickets and Reece Topley bagging one wicket on April 15.
Then RCB ended their innings at 262 for 7, thanks to the batting masterclass of Dinesh Karthik and Faf du Plessis. Virat Kohli, Mahipal Lomror and Anuj Rawat also tried their best but RCB eventually lost the match by 25 runs.