RCB defeated SRH in the first match of IPL 2026, these records were made

Updated: 28-03-2026, 10.12 PM

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In the first match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 6 wickets. Batting first in this match held at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, SRH scored 201/9. In reply, RCB achieved the target in 15.4 overs by losing 4 wickets. Last year’s champions have started the season with a win. Let’s take a look at the records made in the match.

Statement of account

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In the match, RCB won the toss and decided to bowl first. Captain Ishan Kishan played a explosive inning of 80 runs for SRH. Apart from him, Aniket Verma scored 43 runs facing only 18 balls. Jacob Duffy and Romario Shepherd took 3-3 wickets for RCB. In reply, RCB won on the basis of brilliant innings by Devdutt Padikkal (61), Virat Kohli (69*) and captain Rajat Patidar (31).

Such was Ishaan’s innings

Captain Ishan, who came to bat at number three, made a partnership of 97 runs in 53 balls with Heinrich Klaasen (31) for the fourth wicket and took the team out of trouble and took the score beyond 125. In his innings, he was out after scoring 80 runs in 38 balls with the help of 8 fours and 5 sixes. This was the 18th half-century of his IPL career and the first half-century of IPL 2026, which he completed in 27 balls.

Highest innings on captaincy debut for SRH

Ishaan has now also become the batsman who has played the biggest innings on captaincy debut for SRH. In this matter, he has left behind Manish Pandey, who played an unbeaten inning of 69 runs against Mumbai Indians (MI) in Abu Dhabi in IPL 2021. Similarly, former Australian opener David Warner is at the third position, who played an inning of 53 runs against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in IPL 2015.

Ishaan completed 3,000 runs

As soon as Ishaan scored the second run of the innings, he also completed 3,000 runs in his IPL career. He is the 29th batsman to do so. RCB’s legendary batsman Kohli is at the first position in this list. Ishan has represented SRH, Mumbai Indians (MI) and Gujarat Lions in the IPL. He has scored 319 runs in 16 matches for Gujarat and 2,325 runs in 89 matches for MI.

Duffy took 3 wickets in his debut match

Duffy bowled 4 overs and took 3 wickets for 22 runs. His economy rate was 5.50. This player made Travis Head (11), Abhishek Sharma (7) and Nitish Reddy (1) his victims. Due to Duffy’s brilliant bowling, at one time SRH’s 3 batsmen were in the pavilion for just 29 runs in 4.2 overs. This was his first match in this league and this New Zealand player made his debut brilliantly.

Duffy dismissed Travis Head for the third time

Duffy dismissed Head for the third time in T-20 cricket. Apart from them, Arshdeep Singh and Fawad Ahmed have also sent Head to the pavilion thrice. Duffy did this in 4 innings. Arshdeep has dismissed Head 3 times in 7 innings and Fawad has dismissed Head 3 times in 8 innings. In T-20, Duffy has taken 192 wickets in 169 matches at an average of 24.85. He has taken 4 wickets 7 times and 5 wickets 2 times.

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Padikkal scored half century in 21 balls

Padikkal faced 26 balls and was out after scoring 61 runs. 7 fours and 4 sixes came from his bat. His strike rate was 234.62. He completed his half-century facing just 21 balls. This was this player’s 11th half-century in IPL. So far, he has played 75 matches and has scored 1,853 runs in 75 innings at an average of 26.09 and strike rate of 127.79. His best score has been 101* runs.

Kohli scored 64th half-century

Kohli completed his half-century facing 33 balls. This was the 64th half-century of his IPL career. He remained unbeaten after scoring 69 runs in 38 balls. 5 fours and 5 sixes came from his bat. His strike rate was 181.58. Kohli has played 268 matches so far and has scored 8,711 runs in 260 innings at an average of 39.77 and strike rate of 132.95. He has also scored 8 centuries with his bat.