RCB chase the target in 19.2 overs.
Maxwell and Bracewell aim to end the game soon.
RCB need 15 runs from 12 balls. Maxwell and du Plessis are on the crease.
Kohli gets dismissed just after hitting an impressive ton.
Kohli smashes century off 62 balls. Interestingly, he had hit 100 back in the year 2016 on the same date. He also became the joint-topper with Chris Gayle in the list of players to hit most centuries in IPL.
RCB 154/0 (16 overs). Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis look like they will end the game by themselves. Kohli has scored 84 runs off 55 balls. Will he score a century?
Virat smashes 52 runs off 35 balls.
Faf hits 50 off 34 balls, he smashes his 8th half-century of the season.
Royal Challengers Bangalore need 92 runs from the last 60 balls. The Required Run Rate is 9.2.
Even though Mayank Dagar took an impressive catch on Nitish's ball, Faf gets saved as it was a second bouncer of the 9th over.
Can Nitish do something special to change the game on his debut?
Faf 34 (17) and Virat 29 (19) lead RCB's innings. Interestingly, SRH were 49/2 after 6 overs.
RCB need 128 runs from 90 balls.
RCB 45/0 after 4 overs as Kartik Tyagi concedes 18 runs in the 4th over with Faf smashing 3 fours and Virat hitting 1 four.
Phillips drops Faf du Plessis' catch at 12 runs.
RCB 20/0 (2 overs). Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli in action for RCB.
RCB need 187 runs to win.
SRH 182/4 (19 Overs). Brook and Phillips are on the crease. Can they go pass the 200-mark?
Harshal Patel foxes Klaasen 104 (51), sends him back to the hut.
Klaasen hits 103 off just 49 balls.
Klaasen, Brook look in lethal form. How much will the batters put on the scoreboard in next 12 balls?
Will this be a game-changing over as momentum has slighty shifted on SRH's side.
Klaasen 63 (34) and Brook 3 (4) are in action for the Sunrisers who are 112/3 (14 overs).
Shahbaz Ahmed breaks partnership as he dismisses Markram 18 (20)
Klaasen smashes half-century off 24 balls. His fifty includes 6 fours and 2 sixes.
Heinrich Klaasen 40 (20) and Aiden Markram 13 (13) have stabilized the innings and will want to guide SRH to a big total in the next 10 overs. On the other hand, RCB bowlers will look to take wickets.
Even though Bracewell dismissed Abhishek Sharma 11 (14) and Rahul Tripathi 15 (12) in the first six overs, SRH batters managed to smash boundaries and guided their team to a decent powerplay-total.
Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Tripathi in action for SRH against RCB's Mohammed Siraj
Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Glenn Phillips, Abdul Samad, Kartik Tyagi, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nitish Reddy
Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Anuj Rawat(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Michael Bracewell, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj
We would have looked to bat. Not too disappointed. Couple of changes. Brook comes in. Tyagi comes in as well. Umran is an x-factor player. Lot of pride to play for. We haven't lived up to the ability. We should try to showcase that at the world stage in the last two games.
We are gonna have a bowl. The last two nights we have had some dew. Good surface but touch on the slower side. Same team as last game. Hasaranga has a niggle. Bracewell strengthens our batting. We have to start afresh. The game of cricket has a funny way of biting you. You have to have the humility of looking at a fresh game.
Royal Challengers Bangalore have wonn the toss and have opted to bowl. It's time for Sunrisers Hyderabad to bat first.
There is no forecast for rain in Hyderabad during the match hours and the weather will be hot and humid in the evening. Temperature is likely to be around 34 Degrees Celsius during the beginning of the game and will decrease to 32 Degrees Celsius towards the end. There is a 1% of chance of rain during the match time.
The pitch at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium has a balanced surface in T20 cricket. This venue has witnessed just one 200-plus total this season, which came from Rajasthan Royals in the first game here. The average first innings score here is 159 from 70 IPL matches with teams batting second winning on 39 occasions. But the average first innings score here in IPL 2023 is around 170 runs with teams batting first winning four of six games.
Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Anuj Rawat, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik(w), Michael Bracewell, Wayne Parnell, Karn Sharma, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Shahbaz Ahmed, Siddarth Kaul, Kedar Jadhav, Josh Hazlewood, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Wanindu Hasaranga, Finn Allen, Sonu Yadav, Suyash Prabhudessai, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Himanshu Sharma
Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Abdul Samad, Sanvir Singh, Mayank Markande, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, T Natarajan, Anmolpreet Singh, Adil Rashid, Mayank Agarwal, Akeal Hosein, Glenn Phillips, Samarth Vyas, Mayank Dagar, Upendra Yadav, Harry Brook, Kartik Tyagi, Nitish Reddy, Umran Malik, Vivrant Sharma
