255, and Bengaluru Were Chasing a Wall

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Sunrisers Hyderabad 255/4 (20 overs)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru 200/4 (20 overs)

Uppal, 22 May. Bengaluru were already first. Hyderabad were fighting Gujarat for second and third. Pat Cummins chose to bat. Travis Head 26, bowled by Rasikh Salam. Abhishek Sharma 56 off 22, four fours, five sixes. Ishan Kishan 79 off 46. Heinrich Klaasen 51 off 24. Nitish Kumar Reddy 29 not out off 12. Hyderabad 255 for 4. Player of the match: Kishan.

Virat Kohli, June 2016. Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0). He made 15 off 11 here and was caught at cover.

M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Match 67 was at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad.

Venkatesh Iyer 44 off 19. Kohli 15 off 11, caught at cover off Sakib Hussain. Padikkal 21. Patidar 56 off 39. Krunal 41 not out. Bengaluru 200 for 4. They never had the rate. Eshan Malinga took 2 for 33. Hyderabad won by 55. They finished third, 18 points, NRR +0.524.

TATA IPL 2026 Match 67: Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru. If the player does not load, open it on YouTube.

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Bengaluru went to Dharamshala as table-toppers anyway. Hyderabad went to the Eliminator. A 255 does not buy a final. It buys a knockout, and they lost that one five days later.