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SRH vs RCB, 65th Match at Lucknow, IPL, May 23 2025 - Ball by Ball Commentary

RESULT
65th Match (N), Lucknow, May 23, 2025, Indian Premier League
(19.5/20 ov, T:232) 189

SRH won by 42 runs

Player Of The Match
94* (48)
ishan-kishan
Cricinfo's MVP
98.88 ptsImpact List
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The loss dents RCB's hopes of a top-two finish. Kishan and SRH's quicks ensure it's not easy for RCB, even as SRH themselves were eliminated long back. Here's Sidharth Monga's report from tonight, as we bid goodbye. No matter the playoffs spots getting finalised, the competition is still on. Join us tomorrow for further action, though. Until then, it's goodnight!

Ishan Kishan is the Player of the Match: "It's important to just watch the ball and play your game. The moment I saw Abhishek and Travis Head starting the game like that, I knew it was a very good track... I was just thinking about playing those good shots. Plan was very simple. Not so happy with the performance overall; I could have done so much better. It's a game of learning. You have to keep working hard."

Pat Cummins: "Little bit too season. Good effort with bat and ball. Nitish is back bowling. Abhishek's always telling me [to bowl]. Kishan got us to 230 rather than 200. We actually probably misread the wicket. We thought it was a 170 wicket... You've played enough to see anything can happen. Normally, if someone hits a six, it's either a good shot or a bad shot. [Malinga] has been a real find this season."

Time for the presentations

Jaydev Unadkat: "Probably one of the best wickets to bat throughout the tournament. We were expecting it in Hyderabad, but we didn't get it there. Had to break momentum, and the way to do it is by mixing up the pace. That's the key - Cummins was calm, and the message was to remain tight in the field. The message was to try and make things happen. The bowlers were spot on. That's how the game goes - one over, and Malinga did everything. It was quite clear that it was a good track to bat on. So we had to execute the yorkers. The bowlers did a really good job."

Jitesh Sharma: "I think it was 20-30 runs extra. They played very well. I didn't have any answers for their attack. We were rusty. The intensity was not there initially... In the death, we were bowling more accurately. Right now, I haven't met David because I was upset I got out. Sometimes losing a game is a very good sign because you can check and analyse. The positive things are that everyone's chipping in. After this loss, we've got a setback to check [things] again. We'll move forward."

11.34pm At one stage, RCB needed another 69 runs to win off 36 balls. They had seven wickets remaining, with two set batters at the crease. Who knew, then, that SRH would trigger a collapse of 7 for 26 off the next 35 deliveries? You give it to the batting side on almost all days - even if one of their finishers wasn't fit - but Reddy and Malinga executed when it mattered. The ball swung into the batters, and the attempted yorkers landed right. Salt and Kohli's knocks go in vain, but RCB will take a lesson or two from this game.

19.5
W
Harshal to Yash Dayal, OUT

taken at deep-backward square leg. Harshal finally gets a wicket. He bowls another bouncer, and outside off. The ball, once again, seamed back in. It finished around middle, as Dayal had a hook, but ended up sending it right where the fielder was positioned. SRH win by 42 runs

Yash Dayal c Verma b Patel 3 (6b 0x4 0x6 9m) SR: 50
19.4
Harshal to Yash Dayal, no run

slower ball, and short and just outside off. The ball shapes back in to hit him on his body as he looks to pull but misses

19.3
2
Harshal to Yash Dayal, 2 runs

Harshal goes wide of the crease, and bowls it full on off, and slower too. Dayal chips it back, and barely manages to clear mid-off, who was looking to grab it with the ball dropping over his shoulder

19.2
Harshal to Yash Dayal, no run

slower bouncer pitching outside off, but finishing on middle. Fended behind square after opening stance up

19.1
Harshal to Yash Dayal, no run

bowls on a length, and in the channel outside off. It is driven back hard, but Harshal stops it with his left hand

Harshal will bowl the final over

end of over 191 run • 2 wickets
RCB: 187/9CRR: 9.84 RRR: 45.00 • Need 45 runs from 6b
Lungi Ngidi0 (2b)
Yash Dayal1 (1b)
Pat Cummins 4-0-28-3
Eshan Malinga 4-0-37-2
18.6
Cummins to Ngidi, no run

another yorker is launched, but Ngidi is careful in squeezing it out on middle and off

18.5
Cummins to Ngidi, no run

on a full length on off, and driven to point, as he opens the face of the bat

Ngidi is the last man

18.4
W
Cummins to Krunal, OUT

this is a yorker too, but pretty wide of off. And wait... Krunal is out hit wicket! He looked to have a slash at this ball, but ended up hitting the stumps off the bottom of the bat. It didn't matter after that whether he got bat on ball, although he did miss the delivery

Krunal Pandya hit wicket b Cummins 8 (6b 2x4 0x6 16m) SR: 133.33
18.3
Cummins to Krunal, no run

another yorker, but this one comes on sixth stump. It is too full for Krunal to try and drive, and gets an inside edge there

From around to Krunal

18.2
1
Cummins to Yash Dayal, 1 run

there comes the yorker. The ball lands on off, and Dayal jams his bat down. The ball trickles away off the inside edge to go behind square

Dayal

18.1
W
Cummins to Bhuvneshwar, OUT

bowled him! How does the penalty matter?! On a length on middle and off, and Bhuvi looked to go over the off side after making a bit of room. But he was beaten on the outside edge - I thought the ball straightened after pitching, too - and the ball clattered into the middle and off stumps

Bhuvneshwar Kumar b Cummins 3 (2b 0x4 0x6 4m) SR: 150

Cummins is back. SRH are penalised for slow over rate, so only four fielders are allowed on the boundary.

end of over 187 runs • 1 wicket
RCB: 186/7CRR: 10.33 RRR: 23.00 • Need 46 runs from 12b
Krunal Pandya8 (4b 2x4)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar3 (1b)
Eshan Malinga 4-0-37-2
Jaydev Unadkat 4-0-41-1

Farhan: "How much difference that one over of Reddy made!!"

17.6
4
Malinga to Krunal, FOUR runs

outside edge, but four for Krunal! The ball flies between the keeper and short third, as he looked to loft this inswinging yorker-length ball just outside off

From around to Malinga

17.5
3
Malinga to Bhuvneshwar, 3 runs

very full, and swinging into middle and off. Clipped to deep midwicket. The ball ricochets off a direct hit at the keeper's end to allow the third run

Bhuvi

17.4
W
Malinga to David, OUT

straight to long-on! Klaasen moves a step back, before taking the catch and tumbling. Malinga went for another yorker, but ended up bowling a full toss around knee height on off. David only went heaving across the line - he's in trouble with his injured right leg - and knew right away that he was gone

Tim David c Klaasen b Malinga 1 (5b 0x4 0x6 6m) SR: 20
17.3
Malinga to David, no run

full and on off, as he swings this to deep-backward square leg. Still no run taken

17.2
Malinga to David, no run

another yorker - it's a big line of them now - as this comes on sixth stump. David only stands and slaps at it, and gets a bottom edge wide of the stumps

17.1
Malinga to David, no run

nicely done by Klaasen at long-on, who runs and slides to his right to prevent a boundary. David isn't fit enough to run, so it's a dot, as he had whipped this yorker wide of long-on

Bim: "Can David win it for RCB like Maxi did at WC 2023?"

end of over 175 runs • 1 wicket
RCB: 179/6CRR: 10.52 RRR: 17.66 • Need 53 runs from 18b
Krunal Pandya4 (3b 1x4)
Tim David1 (1b)
Jaydev Unadkat 4-0-41-1
Eshan Malinga 3-0-30-1
16.6
4
Unadkat to Krunal, FOUR runs

flung away over extra cover. This time he reads the slower ball, and lofts it late off a length. The line was wide again, and Krunal stretched out to place the ball in the acres of space available

16.5
Unadkat to Krunal, no run

on the fuller side of a length, and just outside off. Krunal can only punch it to Cummins at extra cover

16.4
Unadkat to Krunal, no run

another slower ball, and on a fullish length on a wide line outside off. Krunal looks to slash, but is beaten

Unadkat over the stumps

Krunal facing his first ball

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Over 20 • RCB 189/10

Yash Dayal c Verma b Patel 3 (6b 0x4 0x6 9m) SR: 50
W
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