IPL: Royal Challengers beat Sunrisers by 10 runs
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 10 runs in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 match at the Dubai International Stadium on Monday.
RCB set a 164-run target for SRH, after half-centuries by debutant Devdutt Padikkal and AB de Villiers.
Padikkal got RCB off to an instant start and scored his maiden half-century on his IPL debut.
However, SRH looked set to win throughout their chase, however the crucial wickets of Manish Pandey and Jonny Bairstow, both because of Yuzvendra Chahal, turned the tide in RCB's favour.
Chahal was the star bowler for RCB, notching some three crucial wickets. Navdeep Saini and Shivam Dube chipped in with two wickets aswell, as the Virat Kohli-led team got off to an absolute start.
Sunrisers Hyderabad's inexperienced middle order hurt them big style because they collapsed spectacularly from 121 for 2 in a chase of just 164, giving Royal Challengers Bangalore an absolute begin to their campaign.
The knowledge of such a flaky batting order will leave a major question mark against the dismissal of Jonny Bairstow, trying going to a six within the last over of Yuzvendra Chahal, the only bowler he hadn't got at the top off. They needed just 43 off 29 at that time.
ESPNcricinfo's Forecaster gave them a 76% chance of winning; any other team would have been 82% favourites but this adjustment by the tool told us what followed had not been reliable.
A panic-stricken collapse followed: it involved a ramp into the helmet onto the stumps, a mid-pitch collision between the two batsmen, a Navdeep Saini coup de grace and 8 for 32 in 27 balls.
Royal Challengers needed all that after they had wasted a quick start themselves to conclude using what a below-par total against a more robust batting unit.
