Delhi: In the first match of the 19th season of the Indian Premier League, defending champion RCB achieved a one-sided victory against SRH by 6 wickets. In this way RCB has started its campaign with a win. In this match held at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Ishan Kishan led Sunrisers Hyderabad batted first and scored 201/9. In the reply innings, RCB achieved this target in 15.4 overs by losing only 4 wickets. With this, RCB has become the first team to chase a target above 200 in so few overs.
Padikkal and Kohli took the wind out of SRH bowlers
Before the start of the second innings, it seemed that RCB might have to face some difficulties during the chase, this seemed to be true after Phil Salt was out in just the second over. However, this did not happen. As soon as Devdutt Padikkal came to the crease at number three, he attacked the Hyderabad bowlers and created havoc.
He completed his fifty in just 21 balls. However, after this Padikkal could not stay at the crease for long. Harsh Dubey took his wicket. The left-handed batsman had completed his work before getting out. Padikkal scored 61 runs in 26 balls with the help of 7 fours and 4 sixes.
After Padikkal’s dismissal, Virat Kohli took charge and attacked SRH. During this time, Captain Rajat Patidar also supported him fully. He played a stormy inning of 31 runs in 12 balls.
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Kohli scored 72nd half-century in IPL
Kohli scored a half-century in 33 balls. This was his 72nd fifty in IPL. Kohli remained unbeaten till the end. He scored unbeaten 69 runs on 38 balls. During this period, only 5 fours and 5 sixes were seen from the bat of King Kohli. With the help of these innings, RCB easily achieved the target by losing 4 wickets in the 16th over itself and won the match by 6 wickets. David Paine took maximum 2 wickets for SRH.
Fastest successful 200+ chases in the IPL:
15.4 overs – RCB vs SRH at Chinnaswamy, 2026*
15.5 overs – RR vs GT at Jaipur, 2025
16.0 overs – RCB vs GT at Ahmedabad, 2024
16.3 overs – MI vs RCB at Wankhede, 2023
17.3 overs – DD vs GL at Delhi, 2017#IPL2026— The Stats Kid (@TheStatsKid1523) March 28, 2026
Ishan Kishan’s stormy innings went in vain
Talking about SRH’s innings, the maximum runs for the team came from the bat of captain Ishan. While playing the captaincy innings, he scored 80 runs in 38 balls with the help of 8 fours and 5 sixes. During this innings, Ishan also completed the feat of scoring 3000 runs in IPL. Ishan along with Heinrich Klaasen made an important partnership of 97 runs for the fourth wicket.
31 runs came from Klaasen’s bat. At the same time, in the last overs, Aniket Verma defeated the RCB bowlers. He scored 43 runs in just 18 balls with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes. With the help of his innings, SRH scored 201 runs losing 9 wickets after playing the entire over.
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Jacob Duffy and Romario Shepherd took 3-3 wickets.
Jacob Duffy and Abhinandan Verma got a chance to make their debut in this match for RCB. Duffy performed well in the very first match of the tournament and took 3 wickets for 22 runs in a spell of 4 overs. Apart from him, Romario Shepherd also made 3 batsmen his victims.
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