RCB vs SRH highlights, IPL 2021: SRH beat RCB by 4 runs in a nail-biting contest

Bhuvneshwar Kumar does it. Bowls two very good deliveries to close out the match. Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 4 runs. 

19.4 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to AB de Villiers: SIX! Genius you are AB de Villiers. Bhuvi just misses his length and that was enough for de Villiers to go straight and hit a six. RCB need 6 off 2 now. 

18.4 Jason Holder to Shahbaz Ahmed: OUT! The luck runs out. No mistake by Williamson at mid-wicket. Holder is elated but what an important little innings from Shahbaz. He goes for 14 off 9 balls. RCB need 14 off 8 balls. 

18.1 Jason Holder to Shahbaz Ahmed: DROPPED! Oh Bhuvneshwar Kumar what have you done? It was regulation at deep cover. But the reverse cup didn't work. The ball slipped out of his hands. In the end, he did well to stop the ball from going over the ropes. But Shahbaz survives and also gets a couple. 

17.5 Umran Malik to Shahbah Ahmed: FOUR! Outstanding batting by the left-hander. Malik, this time errs on the full length. Bowls a full toss and Shahbaz opens the face of his bat to get it over the point fielder and into the boundary. RCB now need 19off 13 balls. 

17.1 Umran Malik to Shahbah Ahmed: FOUR! Confident stroke by the young left-hander. That's always gonna be the risk with someone like Malik at the death. The batters can use his extra pace and get runs just like Shahbaz did on this occasion.

16.5 Rashid Khan to Devdutt Padikkal: OUT! Rashid Khan gets the important wicket of Padikkal for 41. It was not his day today.  One could guess that. Wanted to clear the topes but didn't get the required connection to clear the big sqaure boundary. RCB 109/5 

14.4 Rashid Khan to Devdutt Padikkal: FOUR! REVERSE SWEEP! The pressure was building on Padikkal. He needed to do something and brings out the reverse to get the all important boundary. 

RUN OUT! Outstanding work by Kane Williamson. Glenn Maxwell goes for 40 off 25 balls. There was a mix-up between Maxwell and Padikkal. There was never a run there. But Williamson does a brilliant work. He got to the ball quickly and released it off balance to knock the stumps down. RCB 92/4 after 14.1 overs

Six runs from the Bhuvneshwar Kumar over. The more this game progresses, the more you get a feeling, that it's Maxwell who holds the key. RCB need 50 from 36 now with AB de Villiers still to come. 

13 overs bowled! Jason Holder gives away 9 runs - four of those were from an inside edge - but RCB's won't complain. The umpire signals for the strategic time out. They need 56 runs off 42 balls. 

11.2 Siddharth Kaul to Glenn Maxwell: FOUR! No Siddharth, you don't have the pace of Umran to bang in short and trouble Maxwell. The right-hander in fact, took a couple of steps forward and then hit the pull shot with disdain, he had so much time at his disposal. RCB 75/3

Rashid Khan to Glenn Maxwell: SIX! FOUR! Maxwell has decided to after Rashid and so far he is finding success. The six was over long on and then the sweep shot was brilliantly adjusted and flicked with his wrists.  

Four balls above 150 km/h - the fastest one being 153 km/h - from that Umran Malik over. He hurried Maxwell and Padikkal both. This is exciting stuff from the the young right-arm seamer from J&K. 

7.3 Rashid Khan to Glenn Maxwell: SIX! Big one, it has to be if you are clearing the square boundary of this ground. 81m that six. He went for the big slog sweep, won't say he got the perfect connection but had enough to carry it over the deep mid-wicket fielder's head. 

Young gun Umran Malik, who clocked in excess of 140kph regularly against KKR and even touched the 150-mark, is introduced into the attack. 

OUT! The extra pace has done the trick for the J&K pacer. He fires one around the ribcage area of Bharat and rushes him into the pull. The ball grazes the gloves of Bharat before being caught by SRH keeper Saha. He's gone for 12. 

RCB are 38/3 after 7 overs.

Glenn Maxwell is the new man in.

SIX! KS Bharat smashes his first boundary of the day with an 89m six. Slower ball outside off, Bharat waits for the ball and one leg, he tonks the ball back over the bowler's head

FOUR! What a shot. Bharat is already making his intentions very clear. A skiddy delivery from Kaul, Kona Bharat rocks back and swivel pulls through deep mid-wicket for 4

A strong end to the powerplay, a dozen off it. RCB are 37/2 

4.4 Jason Holder to Devdutt Padikkal: FOUR! Not good from Holder. He slid down the leg side and all Padikkal needed to do was to out bat to ball and get four runs. The left-hander doesn't miss out. RCB 25/2

3.2 Siddharth Kaul to Dan Christian: OUT! Siddharth Kaul strikes! Dan Christian goes for 1. It was a slower ball. How many times have we seen a batter fall to a slower one in this IPL? Do the match. Christian wanted to flick to the on-side but ended up skying in to mid-off. RCB 18/3

2.3 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Devdutt Padikkal: FOUR! Superb shot from the left-hander. He made room and punched it through the covers to get his first boundary. That's where Padikkal in dangerous. 

“Are you sure Jason?” asked Williamson before going for the review. Holder was pretty sure. He had appealed three times before being turned out. But as it turns out, the umpire was right. There was nothing from the bat. It cam off Padikkal's thigh pad that made the nose. 

1 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Virat Kohli: OUT! Bhuvneshwar Kumar gets Virat Kohli LBW for 5. It was the perfect in-swinger by Kumar. Kohli, as he so often does, walks across and missed it. The umpire had no doubts in his mind. Kohli turned towards Padikkal, who said ‘nyah, off you go skip’. RCB 6/1

0.1 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Virat Kohli: FOUR! SMASHED! What a shot to start off the chase by Virat Kohli. It was as if like, he had pre-decided that he would go after the first ball. It was length delivery from Bhuvneshwar, a tad wide and Kohli just smacked it through extra-cover. 

Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal have walked out to open the batting for Royal Challengers Bangalore. They need 142 to win and stay in contention for a top-two finish. Bhuvneshwar Kumar has the new ball in hand for SRH. 

20 Harshal Patel to Jason Holder: OUT! Another wicket for Harshal Patel. SRH finish with 141/7. You simply can't stop him from bowling slower ones and get wickets from them. Holder, had no option but go for the big one but had no timing on that one. Good catch at long on by Dan Christian.