Those who rise early Having scored three more runs in a single tournament than any other side, Hyderabad’s strong batting line has had the finest IPL 2024 season of any team. That being said, a first-base hit was the source of each of those runs. Faf du Plessis, the captain of Royal Challengers Bengaluru, prevented his team from batting first on Thursday in Hyderabad by setting the target rather than allowing them to advance. Even though RCB’s 206 was hardly their match total, the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium scoreboard proved to be too much for SRH, and they gave up. Kavya Maran, the club’s CEO, was furious with their bad batting display.

The SRH top-order, which has been the foundation of their batting dominance, was totally disrupted by the way the RCB exploited the track to their advantage. After a counterattack by Rummy Modern (31 off 13 balls), off-spinner Will Jacks dismissed Travis Head for only one run.

Du Plessis replaced him with legspinner Karn Sharma, who caused much more pain. Karn Sharma instantly fired Abdul Samad and Nitish Kumar Reddy, destroying the run chase for SRH entirely. When Samad claimed his sixth wicket while Maran was watching from the grandstand, he became enraged. The comment quickly gained widespread attention on social media, sparking an offensive meme craze. These are a handful of the answers.

At forty, Dafabet was still undefeated, but the SRH captain, Pat Cummins, gave the team some hope with a fiery 31 runs in fifteen balls. The hosts had no option but to defend their net run percentage after the skipper was benched.

With a 35-run deficit, SRH could only muster 171 for eight. After winning their first game in a month to snap a six-match losing streak, RCB secured their third-place finish in the IPL 2024 points table. They also finished in ninth place overall.