NEW DELHI: Already out of the tournament, Sunrisers Hyderabad, who won the title way back in 2016, posted a decent total of 186, riding on Heinrich Klaasen's brilliant hundred. But Klaasen's valiant effort was overshadowed by run-machine Virat Kohli's 63-ball-100. Apart from a whirlwind century, Virat stitched a blistering 172-run opening stand with captain Faf du Plessis (71) to hand RCB a resounding eight-wicket win with four balls to spare.
Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Brian Lara admitted that his team came up against a "Virat Kohli at his best" but found it hard to explain why they lost six out of the seven home games, which dashed their IPL play-offs chances.
