It was an incredible night for the RCB fans as stalwart batter Virat Kohli hogged all the limelight by helping his team win the game over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday. Virat scored a century after a long wait of four years in the IPL as he ended up scoring 100 runs in just 63 balls, contributing to RCB’s eight-wicket victory over Hyderabad as they chased down a total of 187 with four balls to spare.

Earlier, Faf du Plessis won the toss and invited SRH to bat first at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday. It was Heinrich Klaasen whose heroics with the bat helped Sunrisers Hyderabad post 186 for 5 in 20 overs. He ended up scoring 104 runs with the help of 8 fours and 6 sixes respectively.  The South Africa-based batter was the lone warrior for the Hyderabad side as he single-handedly powered his team to a fighting total.

For RCB, spinner Bracewell picked up two wickets while Siraj, Harshal, and Shahbaz scalped a wicket each and restricted SRH to 186 runs. In reply, Virat and skipper Faf provided a solid start to the Bangalore-based franchise, putting 172 runs stand for the opening wicket. Faf du Plessis amassed  71 off 47 deliveries and put his team in a commanding position before getting out.  Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Natarajan took a wicket each.

Squads:

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (c), Akash Deep, Finn Allen, Anuj Rawat, Avinash Singh, Manoj Bhandage, Michael Bracewell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Siddarth Kaul, Virat Kohli, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Suyash Prabhudessai, Rajan Kumar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Karn Sharma, Himanshu Sharma, Sonu Yadav, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Kedar Jadhav.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Aiden Markram (c), Abdul Samad, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T. Natarajan, Umran Malik, Harry Brook, Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen, Adil Rashid, Mayank Markande, Vivrant Sharma, Samarth Vyas, Sanvir Singh, Upendra Yadav, Mayank Dagar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Akeal Hosein and Anmolpreet Singh.