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The 30th match of IPL 2024 between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Sunrisers Hyderabad was held at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Royal Challengers Bengaluru won the toss and chose to bowl.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Innings:
All the batters of Sunrisers Hyderabad played very aggressively in this match. Among them, Travis Head should be mentioned first. He scored 102 runs in 41 balls with the help of 9 fours and 8 sixes. Next, we have to mention the name of Heinrich Klaasen. Heinrich Klaasen scored 67 runs off 31 balls. He hit 2 fours and 7 sixes. And towards the end of the innings, Abdul Samad scored 37 runs off 10 balls. He hit 4 fours and 3 sixes.
Apart from them, Abhishek Sharma and Aiden Markram also batted well. Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head scored 108 runs in 49 balls in the opening partnership. Abhishek Sharma scored 34 runs off 22 balls which included 2 fours and 2 sixes. Aiden Markram scored an unbeaten 32 off 17 balls. He hit 2 fours and 2 sixes. At the end of 20 overs Sunrisers Hyderabad 287 runs for 3 wickets.
Sunrisers Hyderabad scored the highest team total in the history of IPL in this match, breaking their previous record of 277 runs for 3 wickets which they did against Mumbai Indians in this IPL.
Lockie Ferguson took 2 wickets and Reece Topley took 1 wicket for Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Innings:
Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis (c) got off to a great start for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. At the end of the first 6 overs of Powerplay, Royal Challengers Bengaluru scored 79 runs without losing any wickets. But Virat Kohli got out in the 7th over, he scored 42 runs in 20 balls. He hit 6 fours and 2 sixes. After that, Will Jacks was run out unfortunately. Rajat Patidar couldn’t contribute much, he scored 9 runs. Faf du Plessis was playing brilliantly but got out in the 10th over. He was dismissed by Pat Cummins. On the last ball of this over, Pat Cummins dismissed Saurav Chauhan, who scored 0 runs. At the end of 10 overs, Royal Challengers Bengaluru lost 5 wickets and scored 122 runs.
At this time it seemed that Royal Challengers Bengaluru might not be able to score too many runs. But Dinesh Karthik played exceptionally well and his aggressive batting kept Royal Challengers Bangalore in contention to win the match. He scored 83 runs in 35 balls. He hit 5 fours and 7 sixes. He got out on the 5th ball of the 19th over. Mahipal Lomror and Anuj Rawat also played well for Royal Challengers Bengaluru, scoring 19 runs and 25 not out respectively. At the end of 20 overs Royal Challengers Bengaluru scored 262 runs for the loss of 7 wickets.
For Sunrisers Hyderabad, Pat Cummins took 3 wickets, Mayank Markande 2 wickets, and T Natarajan 1 wicket.
The summary of the scorecard of this match is given below.
Scorecard Summary:
| Sunrisers Hyderabad Innings (287/3 in 20 overs) | Royal Challengers Bengaluru Bowling |
| Travis Head 102 (41) | Lockie Ferguson 52/2 (4 overs) |
| Heinrich Klaasen 67 (31) | Reece Topley Topley 68/1 (4 overs) |
| Abdul Samad 37* (10) | |
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru Innings (262/7 in 20 overs) | Sunrisers Hyderabad Bowling |
| Dinesh Karthik 83 (35) | Pat Cummins 43/3 (4 overs) |
| Faf du Plessis 62 (28) | Mayank Markande 46/2 (4 overs) |
| Virat Kohli 42 (20) | T Natarajan 47/1 (4 overs) |
Result:
Sunrisers Hyderabad won the match by 25 runs.
Player Of The Match:
Travis Head was the player of the match.