RCB vs SRH: Jacob Duffy dominated as soon as he made his debut in IPL, won ‘Player of the Match’; title of

Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: In the opening match of the 19th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2026), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 6 wickets. Apart from the excellent half-century innings of Virat and Devdutt, fast bowler Jacob Duffy played an important role in RCB’s victory.

This was Duffy’s first IPL match and he won the Player of the Match award by bowling brilliantly in the first match itself. Jacob Duffy took 3 wickets for 22 runs in 4 overs. Duffy shook SRH’s batting top order by taking important wickets of Head, Abhishek and Nitish Reddy

What did Duffy say after his brilliant performance?

After the match, Duffy said, “Feels great. I have heard very good things about Bangalore and RCB. This is a great way to start a campaign. I am just saving that big player’s place (Hazlewood). We have recognized that the new ball works to some extent in Bangalore. We talk a lot about the conditions here and what works here. This wicket is a little different. I haven’t seen a wicket with this kind of bounce here in the last few months. As long as the ball is new and hard, this is the best time to bowl.”

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Talking about the match, RCB won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Sunrisers Hyderabad had a very bad start. However, even after this the mark of 200 runs was crossed. Hyderabad scored 201 runs at the loss of 9 wickets. Captain Ishan Kishan played an inning of 80 runs in 38 balls for Sunrisers Hyderabad. Whereas Aniket Verma played a brilliant inning of 43 runs in 18 balls. Heinrich Klaasen contributed 31 runs. Jacob Duffy took 3 wickets, Romario Shepherd took 3 wickets for RCB.

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