IPL: The 19th season of the Indian Premier League has seen a great start, in which the first match was played between the defending champions Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad. The RCB team not only won this match unilaterally but also gave a message to the other teams that they are trying to defend the title this time. In this first match, Sunrisers Hyderabad had given a target of 202 runs to RCB, which they achieved in 15.4 overs at the loss of only 4 wickets. With this, RCB also managed to achieve a big feat.
200 plus target chased against SRH for the first time in IPL
Royal Challengers Bangalore team does not have any good record while chasing a target of 200 or more in IPL. In such a situation, when Sunrisers Hyderabad gave them a target of 202 runs in this match, it definitely seemed a bit difficult task for them at that time. However, Virat Kohli made this target very easy with a brilliant unbeaten 69 runs and Devdutt Padikkal played an excellent inning of 61 runs and RCB won the match with 26 balls to spare. With this, for the first time, RCB has been successful in chasing the target of 200 or more runs in IPL against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Before this, Hyderabad had given them a target of 200 plus twice in IPL, but RCB had to face defeat in both the matches.
200 plus target chased in Bengaluru after 16 years
As soon as the RCB team won this match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, it was successful in chasing the target of 200 plus after a long wait of 16 years at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Before this, the last time RCB chased the target of 204 runs on this ground was in the year 2010 in the match against Punjab Kings. At the same time, RCB has been successful in chasing the target of 200 or more only for the fourth time in IPL history.
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