IPL 2025:The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will be sorry to lose a golden opportunity to reach the top position in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. In the match number 65 played at Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Friday, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) defeated RCB, who had already qualified for the playoffs by 42 runs.
This defeat has also shocked RCB’s net run rate and has slipped to third place in the points table. At the same time, Punjab Kings have reached the second position on the basis of better run rate. The Gujarat Titans still holds the top with 18 points, while Mumbai Indians ranks fourth with 16 points.
In the match, RCB acting captain Jitesh Sharma won the toss and decided to bowl first. Sunrisers Hyderabad scored a huge score of 231 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs thanks to Ishaan Kishan’s an unbeaten 94 -run explosive innings.
Opener Abhishek Sharma (34) and Travis Head (17) made Sunrisers a bang with their stormy batting, and the team crossed the 50 -run mark in just 15 balls. When it seemed that both batsmen were moving towards a big score, RCB sent both of them to the pavilion inside three balls. Abhishek, Lungi Angidi’s full-length ball sat directly in Phil Salat’s hands. Just two balls later, Bhubaneswar took the head of the head of the head.
Heinrich Klassen (24) threw the ball in the air at the long on boundary after targeting Suyash Sharma but Shepherd caught him. Kishan maintained a run pace by hitting a six off the short ball of Krunal Pandya. After this, Aniket Verma (26) scored 19 runs in the 11th over with two sixes and a four off Suyash’s ball. Both also hit sixes on Pandya’s first three balls. Aniket’s innings came to an end when the ball jumped towards the backward point and got a easy catcher in the hands of Bhuvneshwar.
On the other hand, Kishan held one end and did not let the pace of scoring runs to decrease despite the wicket falling. He completed his half -century in just 28 balls. The poor form of Nitish Kumar Reddy (4) continued, and all -rounder Shepherd walked him up.
Kishan was constantly scoring runs from the other end, but Abhinav Manohar (12) had to struggle to score runs and once again Shepherd gave a significant success for RCB. Kishan missed a century but took SRH to a strong score of 231/6 in 20 overs with a four and a six in Yash Dayal’s last over. He scored an unbeaten 94 off 48 balls with the help of seven fours and five sixes.
In response, Virat Kohli (43) attacked SRH bowlers. He opened the account with a late cut off Pat Cummins and punched Jaydev Unadkat above the wide mid-off in the next over. His bridge shot towards deep mid-wicket, who came out of Nitish Kumar Reddy off Cummins, gave this experienced player a chance to dominate the initial overs. At the same time, Phil Salat (62) appeared to be battling to score runs in the beginning, which was contrary to his common aggressive style, but later he also opened his hands.
Under the pressure of the growing run rate, Kohli could not control the bounce off Harsh Dubey and gave the ball directly into Abhishek’s hands at the backward point. Mayank Agarwal (11), who came as an injured player in place of Devdutt Padikkal, started with fours, but Reddy’s good length hit his shot in Klassen’s hands.
Surprisingly, by the end of the 15th over, the RCB score was 167/3, but then the team began to cloud of crisis. Reddy maintained pressure and gave only four runs off the next six balls. After this, Malinga (possibly the reference to another bowler) came and overturned the game. On a yorker, the RCB tried to take a single single, but the bowler scared the ball and scored the silver Patidar, who was quite out of the crease.
Malinga increased RCB’s difficulties by catching Romio Shepherd (0) on her first ball. When captain Jitesh Sharma played the ball in the slot in the wrong direction and catch Abhinav Manohar on deep mid-wicket, the match was completely slipping from RCB’s hand.
Tim David (1), who had to go out of the field after an injury in the final over in the first innings, was seen struggling a lot and failed to take a single. Malinga ended his innings at a lower full toss, which was hit by the Australian player directly on the long-on. Pat Cummins drove Bhuvneshwar Kumar (3), while Krunal Pandya (8) became a hit wicket. Finally, Harshal Patel ended the match for SRH by catching Yash Dayal (3) in deep, and the entire RCB team was reduced to 189 runs, winning the SRH by 42 runs.
