Royal Challengers Bangalore comprehensively beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 14 runs in a nail-biting finish, in the 51st match of the VIVO Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018. With this win RCB have now moved to the 5th spot in the VIVO IPL 2018 points table.

Kane Williamson came out with a brilliant performance and scored a fantastic 81 runs while Manish Pandey accompanied him.RCB vs SRH

Moeen Ali’s and De Villiers knock overshadowed Pandey’s knock though. The match took many twists and turns and swung from one side to another as Williamson fell on the first ball of the last over, just when SRH were looking heading towards victory, but RCB swung back as they kept the last 2 overs tight and finally won the match because of the bowling of Tim Southee and Mohammed Siraj

Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and put Royal Challengers Bangalore to bat. Bangalore lost Parthiv Patel early while AB de Villiers looked good from the beginning and made his intentions clear right away.

The match swung from one side to the other. Rahid stunned Kohli. Dhawan made a big mistake when he caught Moeen Ali but crossed the boundary rope. Then Moeen and De Villiers made their half centuries and the bowlers got no respite.

Rashid finally got two big breakthroughs as De Villiers and Moeen Ali were sent back to the pavilion.

Sarfaraz and Grandhommefinished in style.

Chasing the target of 219 runs, Hyderabad had a fine start soon, Dhawan and Hales were dismissed. Williamson yet again played a great knock and Pandey accompanied him but they just fell short of a few runs.

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