How did SRH lose in 94 balls despite scoring 201 runs in the first match of IPL 2026? Not Kohli, this RCB player changed the whole game

IPL 2026 RCB Vs SRH Match Highlights: In the opening match of the 19th season of IPL, they got to see exactly the same match that the fans were expecting at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Whether it’s Phil Salt’s stunning catch, Devdutt Padikkal Be it the stormy fifty of Virat Kohli or the ‘King’ innings of Virat Kohli, the audience got a lot of entertainment. RCB started IPL 2026 in a ‘fantastic’ style at its home ground. He created history by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad in just 94 balls. Now it has become the fastest team to achieve the target of more than 200 runs. A total of 404 runs were made in this match, which is the highest in the opening match of any IPL season.

Not only this, for the first time more than 200 runs were chased on the opening day in IPL. in this match Kohli Became the first batsman to score 4000 runs while chasing. In such a situation, the question arises that how did SRH lose the match despite setting a huge target of 201 runs… If we delve deeper into this question, then one RCB player turned the entire game of the match… It is none other than Devdutt Padikkal.

How Devdutt Padikkal changed the game?

Devdutt Padikkal played a stormy inning of 61 runs in 26 balls. During this, he hit 4 skyscraper sixes and 7 fours. He made a partnership of 100 runs with Kohli in 44 balls. Due to this the match completely went out of Hyderabad’s court. When he was out, the team’s score was 2 wickets for 110 runs. After this, Rajat Patidar scored 31 runs in 12 balls and Virat Kohli put the final seal on the victory by scoring unbeaten 69 runs in 38 balls.

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Devdutt Padikkal hit a six on the very first ball

• Devdutt Padikkal came to the crease after the fall of Phil Salt’s wicket in 1.1 overs. He hit a six on the very first ball of Jaydev Unadkat.
• After this, Padikkal hit two fours on the ball of Nitish Kumar Reddy in the third over.
• Padikkal did not stop here, he hit 2 sixes and a four off David Paine’s ball in the fourth over.
• Padikkal completed his fifty in 21 balls. He was dismissed by Harsh Dubey on the fourth ball of the ninth over.
• Before getting out, Padikkal had hit a four on the second ball of Harsh Dubey’s over and a six on the third ball.

Who scored how many runs for SRH?

Captain Ishan Kishan scored the highest 80 runs for SRH. During this innings, he hit 5 sixes and 8 fours in 38 balls. Apart from him, Aniket Verma scored 43 runs in 18 balls with 4 sixes and 3 fours, while Heinrich Klaasen scored 31 runs in 22 balls. Apart from this, Abhishek Sharma scored 7, Travis Head scored 11, Nitish Kumar Reddy scored 1, Salil Arora scored 9 and Harsh Dubey scored 3 runs. At the same time, Harshal Patel could not even open his account, while David Paine and Jaydev Unadkat remained unbeaten after scoring 4 runs. In this way Hyderabad scored 201 runs at the loss of 9 wickets.

For RCB, Jacob Duffy took 3 wickets for 22 runs in 4 overs. He was chosen player of the match for this. Apart from him, Romario Shepherd took 3 wickets, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhinandan Singh and Suyyash Sharma took 1 wicket each.