SRH vs RCB Highlights, IPL 2023: Kohli's 100 sends Royal Challengers Bangalore to 4th position in points table

A wide length delivery by Karn, and Klaasen smacks it to deep backward point to get a fifty!

A length delivery by Harshal and Klaasen clips it to wide long-on for a single and also brings up the fifty stand with Markram.

A short delivery by Karn and Klaasen pulls it with ease over Kohli in deep midwicket boundary for a smashing six!

A short delivery by Harshal, wide. Klaasen pulls it through wide mid-on for a four! SHOT!

A short delivery by Bracewell, Klaasen pulls it from off stup for a four along square leg! SHOT!

SRH: 56/2 (7)

A full delivery by Bracewell, Markram clips it to long-on for a single.

SRH: 50/2 (6.1)

A good delivery by Bracewell and Tripathi can only loft his shot to short fine leg for a catch!

Tripathi c Patel b Bracewell 15 (12)

A short delivery by Bracewell, and wide. Abhishek tries to cut it, but it lobs to cover point for a simple catch!

Abhishek c Lomror b Bracewell 11 (14)

A short delivery by Parnell and it is slow. Tripathi smacks it for a six! SHOT!

Siraj pitches it up, outside off. Abhishek cover drives it deep in the outfield and it goes for a four!

A length delivery by Parnell, and Tripathi square drives it to deep backward point for a four!

SRH: 7/0 (2)

Tripathi and Abhishek to open for SRH and Siraj will bowl the first over for RCB.

SRH: Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Glenn Phillips, Abdul Samad, Kartik Tyagi, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nitish Reddy

RCB: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Anuj Rawat(w), Shahbaz Ahmed, Michael Bracewell, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj

RCB captain Du Plessis has won the toss and opted to bowl.

Toss is coming and is scheduled for 7:00 PM IST.

Ahead of the match, RCB skipper Du Plessis said, "Really good for our NRR [win over RR]... hopefully, we can set it up for the last game at the Chinnaswamy."

SRH: LLWLW

RCB: WLLWL

With SRH knocked out, Markram said, "A lot of pride for us to play for (in the last two games). We'll try to give some opportunities if we're allowed to. It'll be nice to finish off the tournament in good spirits but unfortunately, we haven't been good enough in the tournament this year."

Shami is in pole position in the Purple Cap race with 23 wickets, followed by GT teammate Rashid (23) in second position and RR spinner Chahal (21) in third place. MI spinner Piyush (20) is fourth, KKR's Varun is fifth with 19 dismissals.

Du Plessis leads the Orange Cap race with 631 runs and is followed by GT opener Gill (576) in second position. Meanwhile, RR opener Jaiswal (575) is third, CSK opener Conway (498) is fourth and MI star Suryakumar (486) is fifth.

RCB are currently fifth in the standings with 12 points in 12 games, packed with six wins and six defeats. Meanwhile, SRH are bottom of the standings with eight points in 12 fixtures, including four wins and eight losses.

With a minimum of 25 deliveries faced from pacers in T20s, Maxwell's strike rate of 96 and 105 vs Natarajan and Bhuvneshwar, which is also his lowest and third lowest. On the other hand, the Aussie has faced more thann double the number of balls (146) while batting at No. 4 this campaign than he has while at no. 3 (64).

Batting is an issue in this venue for teams, with combined batting average (runs/dismissal) being at 23.71, which is the second lowest this season. Teams who have batted first have won four of the six matches in this venue.

Both sides have faced each other 22 times in IPL history, SRH lead 12-9 vs RCB, with one match bearing no result.

Spotlight will be on Siraj as RCB will eye a playoff spot. He has scalped nnine wickets in the Powerplay, joint-second best with Boult, and has onlu leaked runs at just 6.31 in that phase.