SRH won such match for the 12th consecutive timeImage Credit source: PTI

Current IPL champion Royal Challengers Bangalore has once again made it to the playoffs. The team captained by Rajat Patidar remained in the top-2 in the points table in IPL 2026 and thus, it will stake a claim for the final in the first qualifier itself. The team got this success in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad where it stopped SRH from achieving the number-1 position. However, Bengaluru could not win this match and thus, like many other teams, RCB could not break the fort of Hyderabad in which SRH's 100 percent record remains intact.

Hyderabad's spotless record remains intact

Hyderabad and Bengaluru This match was played on 22 May. In this match, Hyderabad batted first and made a big score of 255 runs. He needed such a score because SRH needed to win by at least 87-88 runs to reach the top-2. Hyderabad won this match but could not stop RCB within 166 runs. In this way, even after winning, Hyderabad did not get any special benefit, whereas even after losing, RCB did not suffer any loss.

Even though the first or second place slipped from SRH's hands, the team succeeded in maintaining one of its records. This record is to never lose after scoring more than 220 runs. Records show that till date SRH has scored more than 220 while batting first in IPL 12 times and every time the team has successfully defended its score. That means Hyderabad has won all the 12 matches with a score of more than 220 while batting first. In this way his score line is 12-0, which is very special in itself.

Most crossed 200 in a season

Not only this, Sunrisers Hyderabad, captained by Pat Cummins, has crossed the 200-run mark in an innings for the 9th time this season. This is a new record in IPL. Till now, apart from Hyderabad, Punjab Kings (2025 and 2026), Bengaluru (2026) and Gujarat Titans (2025) had done this feat 8 times each. Now Hyderabad has gone ahead. The team can improve this record in the playoffs. However, Punjab and Bengaluru also have a chance to match it.

Sumit Sundriyal

Presently I am working as Assistant News Editor (Sports) in TV9 Hindi (Sports 9). Reaching here started from 2009, when I took admission in Mass Media Honors Course (2009-12) at Jamia Millia Islamia. Then in 2013, he completed Post-Graduation Diploma in Hindi Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication. It was from here in 2013 that he entered professional journalism for the first time and first made a place in News 18 India TV channel. Before taking entry in digital journalism, he spent about 6 years in the TV industry, where he worked on the assignment desk. While at the assignment desk, gathering information is the most important task and it is the responsibility to check every aspect of that news and take it forward. Did the same thing while working at News 18 India. After this, the fascination with sports and sports news turned towards digital journalism and a new journey began. It started during IPL 2019, when Quint joined Hindi. After writing sports news with Quint for a year, he established a relationship with TV9 Hindi to achieve a new position in this work. For the last 3 years, I have been bringing every small, big, serious and funny sports news to you here and am constantly trying to present it in a better way.

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