IPL 2024: Bengaluru wins the second game of the season thanks to their all-around play

At the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Thursday, skipper Faf du Plessis won the toss and the match went in favor of the struggling Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), while the hosts Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) were eventually caught by the law of averages.

The hosts’ winning run was ended by RCB, who defeated SRH by 35 runs to clinch their second victory of the season in nine games. Third in the standings, the Pat Cummins-led team has three defeats and five victories. In their last meeting in Bangalore, SRH beat their own record with a score of 288-3.

However, Rajat Patidar’s aggressive fifty off twenty balls earned him Player of the Match honors, as RCB decisively avenged that loss this time.

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For the bottom-seeded RCB, the victory was a huge relief, and according to Du Plessis, his squad has been playing better than they have the last two games. We’ve been close for a long time, but collective confidence comes from winning games. Confidence is only given by one’s performance. Happy to see his hitters score runs, Du Plessis added, “We’ll sleep better tonight.” “Now, more players are scoring runs. Only Virat [Kohli] was scoring runs in the early half of the competition.

“It will be huge for Greeny [Cameron Green] to score runs now,” the South African stated, expressing disappointment over their home field, M Chinnaswamy Stadium, being defeated in games. It’s a challenging field to bowl on. We’ve looked for a recipe, but it’s not easy to locate.

Daniel Vettori, the coach of SRH, acknowledged that his squad struggled. After being merciless in the first four games, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, and Heinrich Klaasen suffered an uncommon defeat. In the first over, Head was out, followed by Abhishek in the fourth and Klaasen in the fifth.

Vettori of SRH laments a hard defeat.
Although 206 seemed like a decent number, Vettori supported his guys based on their prior results. We also know that the openers set it up, and they had an off day today [Thursday], which is a common occurrence in cricket. We didn’t anticipate that they would play in 14 games, and regrettably, we didn’t get any help in the meantime.

We know that every team in the IPL is capable of defeating every other team, even if it’s a difficult loss. The New Zealander said, “There are no easy games at all,” after his team’s 171-8 performance in need of 207 to win.