Hyderabad won this match by 42 runs
The 65th match of IPL 2025 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, where RCB lost by 42 runs. RCB was in a strong position at one point while chasing the target of 232 runs given by Hyderabad, but the team got into trouble after losing back to back wickets in the 16th over.
The turning point of this match was this over of Ishan Malinga, in which first Rajat Patidar was run out. After this, explosive batsman Romario Shepherd returned to the pavilion without opening his account. After this, in the next over, RCB lost a wicket in the form of Jitesh Sharma. In this way, RCB lost three wickets in scoring one run, which proved to be the turning point of this match.
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Talking about the match, RCB won the toss and invited Hyderabad to bat first. SRH batted first and scored a mammoth score of 231 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Ishan Kishan played an explosive innings of 94 runs. He hit 7 fours and 5 sixes during his innings. Apart from this, Abhishek Sharma gave a great start by playing an innings of 34 runs.
Travis Head (17), Heinrich Klaasen (24) and Aniket Verma (26) played short but useful innings. Romario Shepherd managed to take the most 2 wickets for RCB.
Chasing the huge target, RCB also made a great start. Virat Kohli and Phil Salt added 80 runs for the first wicket, but as soon as both of them were out, RCB lost wickets at regular intervals. Kohli scored 43 runs, while Phil Salt played an innings of 62 runs. Hyderabad bowlers did not give RCB’s middle order a chance to play freely and bundled out the team for 189 runs.
Captain Pat Cummins bowled very economically for Hyderabad. He took 3 wickets for just 28 runs in four overs. Apart from this, Ishan Malinga took 2 wickets. At the same time, other bowlers got one wicket each.
