Having opted to bat first, Sunrisers Hyderabad's (SRH) opening batsman Travis Head accumulated 26 runs in 16 balls, including five boundaries. Fellow opening batsman Abhishek Sharma scored 56 runs off 22 deliveries, laced with four boundaries and five maximums (Pic: X/@SunRisers)

Swashbuckling batsman Heinrich Klaasen played a knock of 51 runs in just 24 balls. His knock included two boundaries and five maximums (Pic: X/@SunRisers)

Later, wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan garnered 79 runs off 46 deliveries, including eight boundaries and three maximums. Shouldering him was Nitish Kumar Reddy, who scored an unbeaten 29 runs in 12 balls, with the help of a boundary and three maximums. With this, the Sunrisers posted a total of 255 runs for the loss of four wickets in 20 overs against the Royal Challengers (Pic: X/@SunRisers)

Bengaluru's Rasikh Salam returned with the figures of two wickets for 52 runs in four overs. Suyash Sharma and Krunal Pandya also bagged one wicket each. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, and Romario Shepherd went wicketless in the IPL 2026 match against the "Orange Army" (Pic: X/@RCBTweets)

In the second innings of the game, the cricket fans will expect RCB's Rajat Patidar to deliver a big knock. The right-handed batsman has returned to the action after recovering from an injury (Pic: X/@RCBTweets)