IPL 2020: RCB starts the IPL with a win over SRH.

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 IPL 2020: Royal Changelers gets an easy win over Sunrises Hyderabad in their first game of IPL.   

Davdutt Padikkal hit a half-century on his debut for Royal Challenger Bangalore in a game against Sunrises Hyderabad. Padikkal came in the eye of everyone when he scored 580 runs in the Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament in 2019. he was the leading scorer in that tournament and scored runs with an average of 64 and a strike rate of 175.  

Sunrises Hyderabad faced some injury problems in a game with Australian Allrounder Mithcell Marsh suffered an ankle injury while bowling against RCB in a fifth over of an RCB inning. He bowled only 4 bowls and suffered an ankle injury. It is a huge blow for Sunrises Hyderabad if he will not be fine for upcoming IPL matches. He is an allrounder who can give win his team with a bowl and a bat. 

AB de Villiers played a stunning inning in this game as he scored 51 points in just 30 balls with an outstanding strike rate of 170. Padikkal was the other player who scored 56 points with a strike rate of 133.33. Aaron Finch scored 29 runs in 27 balls. Virat Kohli scored only 14 runs who was dismissed by Natarajan.  

David gave his wicket early in the game when he was runout by Yadav. Bairstow tried to keep Sunrises Hyderabad in a game with his outstanding 61 runs in 43 deliveries. 

Until the end of the 15th over Sunrises Hyderabad had the upper hand in the game until Bairstow dismissed by Chahal. SRH had a 121/3 score when Bairstow lost his wicket. SRH lost 8 wickets in just 30 runs.  

Yuzvendra Chahal named man of the match for his performance of taking 3 wickets with an economy of just 4.50, 18 runs in 4 over which are outstanding numbers for any bowler in the T20 format. Padikkai named the player of the match. 

RCB Notable Players:

Batsman

Batsman	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR
Padikkai	56	42	8	0	133.33
Finch	29	27	1	2	107.4
AB de Villiers	51	30	4	2	170

Bowler

Bowler	Over	Runs	Wickets	ECN
B. Kumar	4	25	0	6.25
Natarajan	4	34	1	8.5
Shankar	1.2	14	1	10.5
Sharma	2	16	1	8

SRH Notable Players

Batsman 

Batsman	Runs	Balls	4ss	6s	SR
Bairstow	61	43	6	2	141.86
Pandey	34	33	3	1	103.03

Bowler

Bowler	Over	Runs	Wickets	ECN
Steyn	3.4	33	1	9
Saini	4	25	2	6.25
Chahal	4	18	3	4.5
Dube	3	15	2	5

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