Thursday, 25 Apr SRH vs RCB Match Prediction, Betting Odds and Tips

Key match factors – SRH vs RCB

• If RCB win the toss, they should not let SRH bat first and play in their hands.
• RCB bowlers need to separate the opening duo of Head and Abhishek at the earliest to put the SRH batting under pressure.
• Virat Kohli could not perform against KKR and would want to return to form at the earliest.
• T Natarajan was exceptional for SRH with the ball in the previous and will be high on confidence.

Match Preview

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) will face each other in the 41st match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 on Thursday, April 25. The Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad will host the encounter.

The Sunrisers, led by Pat Cummins, have looked threatening in the ongoing edition of the league. The Orange Army have won 10 points and a net run rate of +0.914 thanks to wins in 5 out of 7 games. They will go into the match after beating the Delhi Capitals by 67 runs in their previous game.

After being asked to bat first, SRH piled up a huge score of 266 for 7. They also made the record of most runs in a powerplay, 125, in T20 cricket. Thereafter, the Sunrisers bowled the Capitals out for 199 in 19.1 overs. T Natarajan finished with figures of 4-1-19-4.

The Challengers, on the other hand, are languishing at the bottom of the table with 2 points and a net run rate of -1.046 courtesy of wins in 1 out of 8 games. They lost to Shreyas Iyer’s Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 1 run in their previous game at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Will Jacks and Rajat Patidar scored half-centuries and built a partnership of 102 runs after RCB were asked to chase down a stiff target of 223. Later, Karn Sharma hit Mitchell Starc for 3 sixes in the last over of the run-chase, but his efforts were not enough for RCB to win.

Head-to-Head Record Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru

SRH and RCB have faced each other 24 times since their first meeting back in 2013. The Sunrisers are leading their opponents 13-10. One match in 2017 did not produce a result. In Hyderabad, SRH have won 6 out of 8 games against the Challengers. In their previous game, SRH beat RCB by 25 runs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

Travis Head hit the fourth-fastest hundred in the history of the IPL. The Sunrisers also racked up the highest team total of 287 for 3 in the IPL. Dinesh Karthik’s 83-run knock for RCB went in vain.