In the 30th match of IPL 2024, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 25 runs. RCB captain Du Plessis won the toss and elected to bowl first at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore today (April 15). After this, Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 287 runs in 20 overs, the highest total in the history of IPL.

On the other hand, RCB chased down the target, scoring 79 runs in the Powerplay overs. So it seemed that RCB could achieve this target. Virat Kohli played a scintillating knock of 42 off 20 balls, while captain Faf du Plessis was also on fire with the bat. Du Plessis scored 62 off 28 balls with 7 fours and 4 sixes.

With Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green not playing in this match, the lower order batting burden fell on Dinesh Karthik and the young batsmen. Dinesh Karthik also played a scintillating knock of 83 off 34 balls, but he could not lead RCB to victory.

After 15 overs, RCB were 187 for 6 and needed 101 off the last 30 balls. 29 runs came in the next 2 overs, but still the team needed 72 runs from 18 balls.

The situation was such that Bengaluru needed fours off every ball to win. In the last 2 overs, the team needed 58 runs to win. But Dinesh Karthik was not ready to back down. Karthik scored 14 runs in the 19th over, but was dismissed for 83 runs in the same over.

As soon as Karthik was dismissed, Hyderabad's victory was almost assured. Hyderabad won the match by 25 runs. Captain Pat Cummins took 3, Mayank Markande 2 and T Natarajan 1 for SRH.

This is the only match in IPL history so far in which both teams have scored 549 runs together.

In IPL 2024, SRH vs MI had a total of 623 runs scored. Now RCB vs MI match has set a new record for most runs in a match. A total of 549 runs were scored in this match between Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

Along with this, the record of most sixes in a single match has also been set in this match. Hyderabad batsmen hit 22 sixes and RCB batsmen hit 16 sixes in this match. A total of 38 sixes were hit in this match.

Hyderabad innings

Sunrisers Hyderabad put up the highest total in IPL history with a brilliant batting against RCB. Batting first, Hyderabad scored 287 for 3 in 20 overs on the strength of Travis Head's century and Henrik Klaassen's half-century. Hyderabad scored 277 runs against Mumbai Indians in the same season of IPL, which was the highest IPL score, but broke their own record just days after this match.

Fast bowler Lockie Ferguson was the most successful bowler for RCB, taking 2 wickets for 52 runs.