Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 4 wickets in the 2nd of the two super Saturday's games here at the M.Chinnaswamy stadium, Bangalore to make SRH's playoffs berth more complicated.
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| SRH vs RCB |
Winning the toss, RCB's skipper Virat kohli elected to bowl first. SRH posted a total of 175/7 in 20 overs thanks to a captaincy knock from Kane Williamson who hit 70* of 43 balls and was assisted by Martin Guptill (30 of 23 balls) and Vijay Shankar (27 of 18 balls) in building SRH's innings. Washington Sundar took 3/24 in 3 overs while Navdeep Saini took 2/39 in 4 overs for RCB.
In reply, RCB had a very poor start after they lost their top 3 batsmen at the score of 20 runs only but Shimron Hetmyer and Gurkeerat Singh had other plans. Hetmyer hit a brilliant 75 of 47 balls and Gurkeerat Singh hit 65 of 48 balls to help RCB reach the target with 4 balls to spare and 4 wickets remain. Khaleel Ahmed took 3/37 while Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2/24 but it wasn't enough.
Shimron Hetmyer was adjusted man of the match for his match- winning knock of 75 in 47 balls.
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| Winner |
With this win, RCB end their campaign with 5 wins and 11points in 14 games whereas SRH stand at 4th place with 12 points in 14 games having 50-50 chances to qualify for the playoffs.
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