Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 10 runs at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai last night and registered their first win of this season.
Earlier Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and asked Bangalore to bat first. Their openers Devdutt Padikkal and Aaron Finch gave a good start of 90 runs. Padikkal got out after scoring a good fifty on debut and in the next over Aaron Finch also got out. Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers took the score to over 100 runs. Kohli couldn't play a big knock and was dismissed for just 14 runs. In the end, AB de Villiers played some big shots and his 51 runs off 30 balls knock helped Challengers to post a fighting total of 163/5 on the board.
In reply, Sunrisers Hyderabad had a poor start as captain Warner got run out on nonstriker's end for just 6 runs. Jonny Bairstow and Manish Pandey rebuilt the innings and 71 runs partnership set the match for a good finish. Pandey was dismissed by Chahal for 34 runs.
Bairstow continued to play his shots and brought up fifty and at 121/2 in 15 overs Hyderabad was in a good position but Chahal dismissed Bairstow and after that Sunrisers kept losing wickets after wickets and bowled out for 153 runs in the last match and lost the match by 10 runs. Chahal was named Man of the Match for his brilliant spell of 3/18.
All the major stats and facts from the third match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Dubai :
1 - Devdutt Padikkal became the first batsman to score a fifty on debut matches in First Class, List A, T20, and IPL.
Devdutt Padikkal on debut in -
First Class - 7 & 77
List A - 58
T20 - 53*
IPL - 56
11 - Number of innings Jonny Bairstow took to reach 500 runs in IPL - the second-fastest to reach this milestone in terms of innings.
Fastest to reach 500 IPL runs (By innings) -
10 - Shaun Marsh
11 - Jonny Bairstow
12 - Lendl Simmons / Matthew Hayden / Gautam Gambhir
37 - Number of fifty-plus scores AB de Villiers has made in IPL - the joint fourth-most by any batsman.
Most Fifty Plus Scores in IPL -
48 - David Warner
41 - Virat Kohli
39 - Suresh Raina
37 - AB de Villiers / Shikhar Dhawan / Rohit Sharma
36 - Gautam Gambhir
50 - This was Virat Kohli's 50th win as captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL - only the fourth captain to win 50 or more matches in IPL.
Most Wins as captain in IPL -
105 - MS Dhoni (175 Matches)
71 - Gautam Gambhir (129 Matches)
60 - Rohit Sharma (105 Matches)
50 - Virat Kohli (111 Matches)
35 - Adam Gilchrist (74 Matches)
201 - AB de Villiers became the second batsman after Chris Gayle to hit 200 or more sixes for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL. He has hit 201 sixes for them in this league.
Most Sixes for RCB in IPL -
239 - Chris Gayle
201 - AB de Villiers
190 - Virat Kohli
31 - Ross Taylor
30 - Robin Uthappa
Most Sixes for a team in IPL -
239 - Chris Gayle for RCB
201 - AB de Villiers for RCB
190 - Virat Kohli for RCB
179 - MS Dhoni for CSK
177 - Kieron Pollard for MI
2016 - Royal Challengers Bangalore have won their opening match of an IPL season for the first time since 2016. In that season also their opening match win came against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
