23/05Result
65th Match (N), Indian Premier League at Lucknow, May 23 2025
SRH won by 42 runs
Player of the Match
Ishan Kishan
Ishan KishanSunrisers Hyderabad
23/05Result
65th Match (N), Indian Premier League at Lucknow, May 23 2025
SRH won by 42 runs
Player of the Match
Ishan Kishan
Ishan KishanSunrisers Hyderabad

The loss dents RCB's hopes of a top-two finish. Kishan and SRH's quicks ensure it's not easy for RCB, even as SRH themselves were eliminated long back. Here's Sidharth Monga's report from tonight, as we bid goodbye. No matter the playoffs spots getting finalised, the competition is still on. Join us tomorrow for further action, though. Until then, it's goodnight!

Ishan Kishan is the Player of the Match: "It's important to just watch the ball and play your game. The moment I saw Abhishek and Travis Head starting the game like that, I knew it was a very good track... I was just thinking about playing those good shots. Plan was very simple. Not so happy with the performance overall; I could have done so much better. It's a game of learning. You have to keep working hard."

Pat Cummins: "Little bit too season. Good effort with bat and ball. Nitish is back bowling. Abhishek's always telling me [to bowl]. Kishan got us to 230 rather than 200. We actually probably misread the wicket. We thought it was a 170 wicket... You've played enough to see anything can happen. Normally, if someone hits a six, it's either a good shot or a bad shot. [Malinga] has been a real find this season."

Time for the presentations

Jaydev Unadkat: "Probably one of the best wickets to bat throughout the tournament. We were expecting it in Hyderabad, but we didn't get it there. Had to break momentum, and the way to do it is by mixing up the pace. That's the key - Cummins was calm, and the message was to remain tight in the field. The message was to try and make things happen. The bowlers were spot on. That's how the game goes - one over, and Malinga did everything. It was quite clear that it was a good track to bat on. So we had to execute the yorkers. The bowlers did a really good job."

Jitesh Sharma: "I think it was 20-30 runs extra. They played very well. I didn't have any answers for their attack. We were rusty. The intensity was not there initially... In the death, we were bowling more accurately. Right now, I haven't met David because I was upset I got out. Sometimes losing a game is a very good sign because you can check and analyse. The positive things are that everyone's chipping in. After this loss, we've got a setback to check [things] again. We'll move forward."

11.34pm At one stage, RCB needed another 69 runs to win off 36 balls. They had seven wickets remaining, with two set batters at the crease. Who knew, then, that SRH would trigger a collapse of 7 for 26 off the next 35 deliveries? You give it to the batting side on almost all days - even if one of their finishers wasn't fit - but Reddy and Malinga executed when it mattered. The ball swung into the batters, and the attempted yorkers landed right. Salt and Kohli's knocks go in vain, but RCB will take a lesson or two from this game.

19.5
W
Patel to Yash Dayal, OUT, taken at deep-backward square leg. Harshal finally gets a wicket. He bowls another bouncer, and outside off. The ball, once again, seamed back in. It finished around middle, as Dayal had a hook, but ended up sending it right where the fielder was positioned. SRH win by 42 runs

Yash Dayal c Verma b Patel 3 (9m 6b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50

19.4
0
Patel to Yash Dayal, no run, slower ball, and short and just outside off. The ball shapes back in to hit him on his body as he looks to pull but misses
19.3
2
Patel to Yash Dayal, 2 runs, Harshal goes wide of the crease, and bowls it full on off, and slower too. Dayal chips it back, and barely manages to clear mid-off, who was looking to grab it with the ball dropping over his shoulder
19.2
0
Patel to Yash Dayal, no run, slower bouncer pitching outside off, but finishing on middle. Fended behind square after opening stance up
19.1
0
Patel to Yash Dayal, no run, bowls on a length, and in the channel outside off. It is driven back hard, but Harshal stops it with his left hand

Harshal will bowl the final over

END OF OVER:
19 | 1 Run 2 Wkts | RCB: 187/9 (45 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 9.84, RRR: 45.00)

  • Lungi Ngidi0 (2b)
  • Yash Dayal1 (1b)
  • Pat Cummins4-0-28-3
  • Eshan Malinga4-0-37-2
18.6
0
Cummins to Ngidi, no run, another yorker is launched, but Ngidi is careful in squeezing it out on middle and off
18.5
0
Cummins to Ngidi, no run, on a full length on off, and driven to point, as he opens the face of the bat

Ngidi is the last man

18.4
W
Cummins to Pandya, OUT, this is a yorker too, but pretty wide of off. And wait... Krunal is out hit wicket! He looked to have a slash at this ball, but ended up hitting the stumps off the bottom of the bat. It didn't matter after that whether he got bat on ball, although he did miss the delivery

KH Pandya hit wicket b Cummins 8 (16m 6b 2x4 0x6) SR: 133.33

18.3
0
Cummins to Pandya, no run, another yorker, but this one comes on sixth stump. It is too full for Krunal to try and drive, and gets an inside edge there

From around to Krunal

18.2
1
Cummins to Yash Dayal, 1 run, there comes the yorker. The ball lands on off, and Dayal jams his bat down. The ball trickles away off the inside edge to go behind square

Dayal

18.1
W
Cummins to Kumar, OUT, bowled him! How does the penalty matter?! On a length on middle and off, and Bhuvi looked to go over the off side after making a bit of room. But he was beaten on the outside edge - I thought the ball straightened after pitching, too - and the ball clattered into the middle and off stumps

B Kumar b Cummins 3 (4m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 150

Cummins is back. SRH are penalised for slow over rate, so only four fielders are allowed on the boundary.

END OF OVER:
18 | 7 Runs 1 Wkt | RCB: 186/7 (46 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 10.33, RRR: 23.00)

  • Krunal Pandya8 (4b)
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar3 (1b)
  • Eshan Malinga4-0-37-2
  • Jaydev Unadkat4-0-41-1

Farhan: "How much difference that one over of Reddy made!!"

17.6
4
Malinga to Pandya, FOUR, outside edge, but four for Krunal! The ball flies between the keeper and short third, as he looked to loft this inswinging yorker-length ball just outside off

From around to Malinga

17.5
3
Malinga to Kumar, 3 runs, very full, and swinging into middle and off. Clipped to deep midwicket. The ball ricochets off a direct hit at the keeper's end to allow the third run

Bhuvi

17.4
W
Malinga to David, OUT, straight to long-on! Klaasen moves a step back, before taking the catch and tumbling. Malinga went for another yorker, but ended up bowling a full toss around knee height on off. David only went heaving across the line - he's in trouble with his injured right leg - and knew right away that he was gone

TH David c Klaasen b Malinga 1 (6m 5b 0x4 0x6) SR: 20

17.3
0
Malinga to David, no run, full and on off, as he swings this to deep-backward square leg. Still no run taken
17.2
0
Malinga to David, no run, another yorker - it's a big line of them now - as this comes on sixth stump. David only stands and slaps at it, and gets a bottom edge wide of the stumps
17.1
0
Malinga to David, no run, nicely done by Klaasen at long-on, who runs and slides to his right to prevent a boundary. David isn't fit enough to run, so it's a dot, as he had whipped this yorker wide of long-on

Bim: "Can David win it for RCB like Maxi did at WC 2023?"

END OF OVER:
17 | 5 Runs 1 Wkt | RCB: 179/6 (53 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 10.52, RRR: 17.66)

  • Krunal Pandya4 (3b)
  • Tim David1 (1b)
  • Jaydev Unadkat4-0-41-1
  • Eshan Malinga3-0-30-1
16.6
4
Unadkat to Pandya, FOUR, flung away over extra cover. This time he reads the slower ball, and lofts it late off a length. The line was wide again, and Krunal stretched out to place the ball in the acres of space available
16.5
0
Unadkat to Pandya, no run, on the fuller side of a length, and just outside off. Krunal can only punch it to Cummins at extra cover
16.4
0
Unadkat to Pandya, no run, another slower ball, and on a fullish length on a wide line outside off. Krunal looks to slash, but is beaten

Unadkat over the stumps

Krunal facing his first ball

16.3
1
Unadkat to David, 1 run, a slower bouncer for the new batter. The ball lands on off, and is wat-pulled towards square leg. David hobbles his way to a single

David

16.2
W
Unadkat to Sharma, OUT, another wicket!! RCB are losing track of this. Manohar, at deep midwicket, kept his eyes on the ball for a long while, before taking it comfortably. Unadkat bowled it on a fullish length, and on off. Jitesh was deep in the crease, and although this was in his hitting arc, he ended up heaving it exactly where the fielder was present

JM Sharma c Manohar b Unadkat 24 (26m 15b 1x4 2x6) SR: 160

16.1
0
Unadkat to Sharma, no run, Jitesh makes room, and drives this full ball on leg to extra cover

Around the wicket

Unadkat will bowl out

END OF OVER:
16 | 7 Runs 2 Wkts | RCB: 174/5 (58 runs required from 24 balls, RR: 10.87, RRR: 14.50)

  • Jitesh Sharma24 (13b)
  • Eshan Malinga3-0-30-1
  • Nitish Kumar Reddy2-0-13-1
15.6
W
Malinga to Shepherd, OUT, gone first ball! There's another Malinga to remember now. He bowls a slower ball to the new batter, and Shepherd ends up chipping it back to Malinga's left. He had backed away early, and Malinga bowled full and on middle or thereabouts. No timing or placement from Shepherd, and Malinga has turned it around for SRH

R Shepherd c & b Malinga 0 (2m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0

Shepherd on strike

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RCB 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st80V KohliPD Salt
2nd40MA AgarwalPD Salt
3rd9PD SaltRM Patidar
4th44JM SharmaRM Patidar
5th1R ShepherdJM Sharma
6th0KH PandyaJM Sharma
7th5KH PandyaTH David
8th7B KumarKH Pandya
9th1KH PandyaYash Dayal
10th2L NgidiYash Dayal