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2024 Latest News, RCB Vs SRH Match 30 - Match Full Report
It is said that lightning doesn’t attack
twice! Ask the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). They may not only distress but also
say that it could come harder. Against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB),
SRH smashed their way to the highest team total in the history of the TATA
Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 – 287 for three – beating their record of 277
set against the Mumbai Indians (MI) earlier in the season. The M Chinnaswamy
Stadium in Bengaluru now has two out of the top three team totals in the IPL
history.
TATA IPL Record Broken
To break the TATA IPL record once
is fantastic, but to do it twice in a season is fantabulous. It only reflects
the quality of batting that SRH possess. From the outset, they were in a mood
to take the attack to the bowling. On a wicket that is known to produce big
scores, SRH were put in to bat. Many fans would have expected a great
performance, with a total over 200, but not many would have imagined that the record
would be broken for the second time in the season.
Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head Partnership
Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head
started the innings and looked in dominating form. The off-spinner, Will Jacks
started proceedings for RCB, but the pace bowling at the other end was
earmarked for special treatment. Reece Topley’s first over was picked for 20
runs. Lockie Ferguson was welcomed with an 18-run over. Yash Dayal’s second
over went for 20. All of this as SRH raced away to 76 inside the powerplay.
Head raced away to his half-century off only 20 balls.
If Head was batting in fifth gear in
the powerplay, one had to come up with more terms to describe his effort in the
next phase. When Jacks returned for the seventh over, Head welcomed him with
two sixes and a four. It didn’t matter if it was a spinner or a pacer, Head
seemed to have an answer to everything. Anything short was met with the
horizontal bat. If the bowler pitched it full, he would go onto the front foot
and cart it down the ground. SRH’s 100 was up in the seventh over when Abhishek
hit a six off Vijaykumar Vyshak. Topley got rid of Abhishek soon after, but
that brought Heinrich Klaasen to the crease, who only piled on the questions
for RCB.
In comparison, Klaasen took some time
to get settled as Head raced away to a century off only 39 balls. It is the
fourth fastest century in the history of the TATA IPL. Ferguson bowled a good
slower ball to get rid of Head for 102. At that stage, SRH were 165 in the 13th
over. That was no respite for RCB though as Klaasen decided to emulate Head.
The 14th over by Mahipal Lomror went
for 18 with two sixes by Klaasen. By the end of the 15th over, SRH were way
past 200 and were possibly entertaining thoughts of breaching their own record.
SRH kept building on the last few overs, with Klaasen speeding off to 67 off 31
balls until he was dismissed by Ferguson in the 17th over.
After 18 Overs
In 18 overs, SRH were 241 for three.
That is when Abdul Samad turned it on for SRH. Powered by the energy created by
Head and Klaasen, Samad channeled it and smashed 37* off only 10 balls. The
record was achieved in the last over when Markram took a single off
Vyshak.
For RCB, it was an
Everest to climb, but one can say that they made a very spirited effort of it.
To start off, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis were ready to take the charge to
the bowlers and help set the tone for the innings. RCB raced to 79 in the
powerplay – comparable to SRH at a similar stage.
Kohli, backed by the home crowd,
looked in great touch as he smashed his way to a 20-ball 42 with six fours and
two sixes. Mayank Markande, the leg-spinner and Impact Player for SRH, got them
the first breakthrough as he bowled Kohli in the seventh over.
Du Plessis continued the charge as he
got to his fifty in only 23 balls. For RCB, it was always going to be difficult,
and it only got tougher when they lost wickets at regular intervals in the
middle order. Jacks, Rajat Patidar and Saurav Chauhan contributed only 16 runs
between them. At the half-way stage, RCB were 122 for five – in terms of runs
one would say it was a fantastic rate, but not on the day considering the SRH
challenge in front of them.
How Was Second Half?
The second half of the innings saw a
vintage performance by Dinesh Karthik, who’s aggressive batting lit up the
Chinnawasamy Stadium. The wicketkeeper batter almost single-handedly kept the
hosts in play – even if the hopes were faint. Like his captain, he too got to a
fifty off only 23 balls and smashed his way to a 35-ball 83 with seven sixes.
On any other day, it would have been a match-winning contribution but today, it
only reflected the enormity of the task before RCB.
Where RCB Finished?
RCB finished at 262 for seven. The margin of
victory for SRH was 25 runs – a good one in T20 cricket. However, if you
consider the huge target, RCB fought and they could be proud of their effort.
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