Sunrisers Hyderabad 287 for 3 (Head 102, Klaasen 67, Ferguson 2-52) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 262 for 7 (Karthik 83, du Plessis 62, Cummins 3-43) by 25 runs
Sunrisers Hyderabad confirmed how cruel fashionable T20 batting can look, obliterating the file they’d themselves set earlier this season to publish 287 for 3, the best complete within the IPL.
The match mixture of 549 runs was the best in all T20 cricket.
RCB went into the match and not using a single frontline spinner. However with two left-handers in Head and Abhishek Sharma opening for Sunrisers, they started with the part-time offspin of Will Jacks. He discovered flip within the first over, and conceded simply seven. His second over was even higher, going for simply 4.
And but, Sunrisers put up 76 within the powerplay, the third time they’d gone previous 70 throughout that section of the innings this season. By then, Head had motored to his half-century off 20 balls. Head hit 4 sixes throughout the fifth and sixth overs as RCB debutant Lockie Ferguson went for 18 after which Yash Dayal for 20.
Head’s second fifty was even faster, taking solely 19 balls, and the century got here up within the twelfth over. Ferguson had Head ballooning a catch to mid-off midway into the thirteenth, however Klaasen had arrived by then, and SRH already had 165 on the board. That was sufficient indication of what extra was to return on a flat pitch surrounded by small boundaries.