Chennai:SRH's brilliance with the bowl restricted RCB to 149-8 in the first innings of the Indian Premier League match here at MA Chidambaram Stadium on Wednesday.
From RCB's camp, Glenn Maxwell shone with the bat scoring 59 runs off 41 deliveries. Skipper Virat Kohli too tried his best with his 33 runs off 29 balls but Hyderabad's bowling proved too much to handle even for the best batsman in the world.
Maxwell's gutsy half-century ensured that RCB, despite losing a flurry of wickets in the second half of their innings, set up a 150-run target against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
RCB were 91/2 in 12 overs and the Bengaluru based franchise lost four wickets in 4.4 overs which saw them collapsing to 109/6. AB de Villiers, Washington Sundar, and Daniel Christian all failed to leave a mark.
In the final three overs, RCB scored 39 runs thanks to some brilliant hitting by Kyle Jamieson and Maxwell, who was dismissed on the last ball of the innings.
Earlier put in to bat, RCB had a decent start before Devdutt Padikkal departed in the third over. Padikkal had smashed Jason Holder for two fours in the second over but the opening batsman wasn't able to carry forward the momentum.