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Thanks to Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 69 runs in 38 balls and Devdutt Padikkal’s 61 runs in 26 balls, RCB defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad badly. Sunrisers Hyderabad had scored 201 runs after playing first. In reply, Royal Challengers Bangalore achieved the target in just 15.4 overs. In this way RCB started IPL 2026 with a win. Ishan Kishan lost his first match as captain.
Royal Challengers Bangalore started the 19th season of the tournament by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 6 wickets in the first match of IPL 2026. In the match, Hyderabad batted first and scored 201/9 runs on the board in 20 overs. In response, RCB won by scoring 203/4 runs in 15.4 overs. Virat Kohli played the biggest innings for the team and scored 69* runs in 38 balls with the help of 5 fours and 5 sixes. During this, Devin Penn took maximum 2 wickets for Hyderabad.
head to head statistics
So far 25 matches have been played between RCB and Hyderabad. In these matches, Hyderabad has taken the lead and won 13. Whereas RCB has won 11 matches. One match between the two remained inconclusive. Hyderabad seems to have the upper hand in head to head. However, now it will be interesting to see which team wins in today’s match.
Playing XI of Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Rajat Patidar (captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhinandan Singh, Jacob Duffy and Suyyash Sharma.
Playing XI of Sunrisers Hyderabad
Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (wk/captain), Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Salil Arora, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel, Jaydev Unadkat and Ishan Malinga.