54th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, RCB vs SRH in Bengaluru

54th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, RCB vs SRH in Bengaluru

The 54th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, RCB vs SRH was played on Super Sat 4th May 2019 in M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. RCB won the toss and elected to bowl first.

SRH'S Inning in 54th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, RCB vs SRH in Bengaluru

SRH after a good start lost their first wicket W Saha in the 5th over of the inning who scored 20 runs (4 fours) of 11 balls and got out by Navdeep Saini and SRH scored 52-1 in powerplay but in the 8th over lost the wicket of Guptil on 30 runs (2 fours,2 sixes) of 23 balls  in the 8th over by W Sundar. Manish Pandey couldn't do much and got out on 9 runs (1 four) of 12 balls by W Sundar and the partnership of 45 runs between Williamson and Vijay Shankar gave a momentum to the team and Williamson played with the momentum at one end whereas on the other wickets continued to fall. Williamson helped the team to set a good total of 175-7 in 20 overs by scoring 28 runs in the last over bowled by Umesh Yadav and scored a total of 70 runs (5 fours, 4 sixes) of 43 balls.

The bowlers kept taking wickets at regular intervals where W Sundar picked 3 in 3 overs conceding 24 runs and Navdeep Saini got 2 wickets whereas Chahal and Khejroliya got 1 wicket each.

RCB'S Inning in 54th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, RCB vs SRH in Bengaluru

RCB didn't get the start as they expected as they lost their top 3 batsmen Parthiv Patel, Virat Kohli, and Ab de Villiers early in the powerplay as a result of which RCB scored 49-3 in first 6 overs. Then a partnership between Hetmyer and Gurkeerat Singh Maan helped the team to revive and took the team close to the target with their brilliant knock where they scored 144 runs for the 4th wicket which was the highest runs partnership for the 4th wicket in IPL and second highest in the season and both of them completed their first fifty of the season and leads the team to win the match by 4 wickets where Hetmyer scored 75 runs (4 fours, 6 sixes) of 47 balls  and  Gurkeerat scored 65 runs (8 fours, 1 six) of 48 balls. RCB gave their fans a memorable end of the season. 

Khaleel once again picked 3 wickets but also conceded 37 runs in 4 overs, Bhuvneswar Kumar picked 2 wickets and Rashid got 1 wicket in the match.

Shimron Hetmyer got his first Player of the Match award in the last match of RCB in the season for his match-winning knock in 54th Match of VIVO IPL Season 12, RCB vs SRH in Bengaluru.