Sunrisers Hyderabad, winners of 2016, will take on Royal Challengers Bangalore, runners-up of 2016, in the opening fixture of the Indian Premier League 2017. And with me is Baidurjo Bhose, our Cricket correspondent who has the easy … Despite that, they are at number 3 on the points table and would love to finish amongst the top 2 to increase their chances of the title defense. None of the batsmen could cope with the required run rate and a disciplined bowling effort from SRH halted them 35 short of the target.RCB has been struggling since the inception of this season and have managed to win just 2 games out of 7 so far and are currently languishing at the bottom of the points table. (Source: PTI) Defending champions Sunrisers Hyderabad got off to a super start in the tenth edition of the IPL when they beat last year’s finalists Royal Challengers Bangalore by 35 runs in Hyderabad. We, at Cricketbetting.net, do not have ownership with any of the bookmakers listed by us. Rashid Khan has been the revelation of the tournament and has troubled even the big stars of cricket. The pressure of run-rate is getting to the RCB batsmen. He gets to his fifty off 23 balls, with a crunching cut off Aniket Choudhary. A knock for the ages.What a sight Yuvraj Singh is when in flow. RCB's score reads 74/2.Captain Virat Kohli and star batsman AB de Villiers will be unavailable for Wednesday's match due to injuries. RCB's score reads 98/2 as Kedar and Head look to take RCB close to the SRH total.Rashid bowls this one short and this time Kedar goes for the pull and picks up four more runs. Bhuvneshwar sees the back of Binny. A great throw to have Jadhav run-out!Another boundary from Kedar here. Henriques has done a tremendous job so far and totally justified his selection. SRH are clearly on top at this moment with the score reading 121/3.WICKET! SRH will be in high spirits as they will not have to face the destructive duo of IPL 2016 — Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers who haunted many teams in the previous season. SRH win by 35 runs.SIX more for RCB. RCB's score reads 154/6 as Binny goes for 11.DROPPED! The two teams faced each other thrice last year and while Royal Challengers Bangalore won the first game, Sunrisers Hyderabad finished winners in the next two, including the season's final match.Sunrisers Hyderabad were on top of their game last season and since they will be starting off as defending champions this year, there will be a lot of expectations from them which will certainly add to the pressure.
Watson goes back and looks like the final nail in the coffin. But it seems like RCB had a last minute change of heart. RCB's score reads 146/5,SIX! IPL 10 is underway, people...Shane Watson, who stands in as captain in place of AB de Villiers, who was appointed as stand in captain for Virat Kohli, wins the toss for RCB and chooses to bowl first.RCB bring in Tymal Mills and Aniket Choudhary for the game. The RCB side is hurting deeply after their dismal show with the bat in the last game and the Kohli’s men will come out hard more than ever. RCB's score reads 110/2.100 up for RCB. All rights reserved.

The panel has some pretty interesting names this time round.Watson creams that on the off-side to pick another boundary through the cover region. A Time Warner Company. But too late in the day for RCB here. They are 1.94 with.Besides being tournament winners of the 2016 edition, Sunrisers Hyderabad will have an upper hand in the fact they have beaten Royal Challengers Bangalore in their previous two meetings with one of these games played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. by Shubham Featured Writer. Seven balls left in the match. It was a performance that hurt them to the core and they will be itching for a revival.SRH, on the other hand, have had a mixed tournament so far. Dhawan had put himself in a great position with some sensible batting. He slammed the first ball for four, but went on to try an encore. The opening batsman was also the second-leading run-getter of the 2016 edition at an average of 60.57. Yuvraj Singh scored a brisk 62 to spearhead SRH in the IPL 2017 opener against RCB.
Yuvraj, in this form, is going to hurt RCB,At the other end, Moises Henriques got his IPL off to a great start, with a fine fifty. A moment of history as Rashid Khan came on to bowl, and he just four deliveries to show why SRH rated him so highly.