In the 2025 IPL series, Sunrisers hyderabad defeated royal challengers Bangalore by 42 runs. royal challengers Bangalore, which had already advanced to the play-off round, faced Sunrisers hyderabad, which did not qualify for that round. Forced to win the match, Sunrisers hyderabad played with great effort. Batting first, Sunrisers scored 231 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Opener abhishek Sharma scored 34 runs in 17 balls. Travis Head scored 17 runs in 10 balls. ishan kishan remained unbeaten on 94 runs off 48 balls; he hit 7 fours and 5 sixes in his innings.
Batting in the fourth order, Heinrich Klaasen scored 24 runs off 13 balls. Aniket Verma scored 26 runs off 9 balls. Abhinav Manohar scored 12 runs off 11 balls and captain Pat Cummins scored 13 runs off 6 balls.
Royal Challengers Bangalore then batted towards a tough target of 232 runs. virat kohli and Phil salt gave the team a good start. virat kohli was dismissed for 43 runs off 25 balls. Phil salt was dismissed for 62 off 32 balls. However, the following players scored only a few runs. Only interim captain Jitesh Sharma managed to score 24 off 15 balls. Romario Shepherd was out for a duck without scoring any runs. The rest of the players were out in single figures. With this, royal challengers Bangalore lost all their wickets and scored only 189 runs at the end of 20 overs. With this, Sunrisers hyderabad won by a huge margin of 42 runs. Pat Cummins took 3 wickets for 28 runs in 4 overs. Malinga took 2 wickets for 37 runs in 4 overs.

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