The 65th league match of IPL 16 will be played today, Thursday 18 May, between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad. Through this match, both teams will play the 13th league match of IPL 2023. If they win this match, RCB wants to take one more step towards playoffs. Let’s see how many matches have been played between the two so far and who has the advantage.
In the IPL, the teams of Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore have met 21 times so far, with Hyderabad winning 12 and Bangalore winning 9 matches. In the overall head-to-head, Hyderabad has the edge over RCB. Today the first match of the IPL 2023 between the two will be played.
Today’s match between the two will be played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. There have been 7 matches between the two teams here, in which Hyderabad have won 6 and RCB have won only 1. In such a situation, it will be interesting to see today if RCB can beat Hyderabad at their stadium or not.
The last meeting between the two took place in IPL 2022. That match was played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, in which RCB won by 67 runs. In that match, Virat Kohli fell victim to a golden duck, while Faf du Plessis scored an unbeaten 73 runs.
Significantly, the RCB team is at number five in the points table with 6 wins and 12 points from 12 games. By winning this match, Bangalore would like to get closer to the playoffs. RCB can qualify for the playoffs if they win both of their matches.
