In a must win match for the orange army , SRH, had elected to bowl,first and put the Rcb boys into bat. They brought in Abhishek Shamra in place of an injured Vijay Shankar and at the same time RCB made two changes as Isuru Udana and Navdeel Saini replaced Dale Steyn and Shivam Dube in the playing XI.

SRH striked twice in the powerplay as Sandeep Sharma dismissed Devdutt Padikkal in the third over and then followed up with a big wicket of Virat Kohli in the fifth over. The RCB skipper was caught by Kane Williamson at short extra cover.SRH had a chance to watch the back of AB de Villiers in the seventh over but Shahbaz Nadeem could not grasp on to a caught and bowled opportunity.But Nadeem redeemed himself and made up for that missed opportunity as he got ABD out in the 11th over after young Abhishek Sharma took a catch in the deep covers region. RCB lost their fourth wicket in the next over as Josh Phillipe was holed out at deep mid-wicket off Rashid Khan’s bowling. Washington Sundar and Gurkeerat Singh Mann were the new batsmen in and then they drived RCB past hundred before the former got out in the 18th over. SRH was pretty tight in the last two overs and restricted RCB to 120/7.

Needing 121 runs to win from almost run a ball, SRH lost David Warner in the second over. Manish Pandey, though counterattacked, hitting a six and a four in the next over and Wriddhiman Saha hit his first four of the match in the fourth over as SRH moved past 30. Pandey and Saha pair added 28 runs in the next two overs as SRH posted 58/1 in the powerplay.But SRH lost Manish soon after as Yuzvendra Chahal struck in his first over to give RCB their second wicket. The leg-spinner added one more wicket to his account after he deceived with a flight and got him out stumped. RCB continued to put up a fight as Isuru Udana dismissed Kane Williamson in the 13th over.With 34 needed to close up a win, Jason Holder walked out to bat and slammed 26* off 10 balls as SRH closed out the game with 5.5 overs in hand.