New Delhi, Sports Desk. The 65th match of IPL 2023 will be played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad today. This match is important for Royal Challengers Bangalore with the intention of reaching the playoffs and they will have to win at any cost. The Orange Army is out of the playoff race, but they would like to make the playoff race interesting by defeating RCB.

Anyway, the Sunrisers Hyderabad team has proved to be like an era for RCB. The figures themselves are testifying to this fact. Sunrisers Hyderabad is the only team that has knocked RCB out of the title race or playoff race for the most number of times. SRH have so far denied RCB a playoff run or title win on a total of 5 occasions.

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Hyderabad won the title by defeating RCB in the 2009 final. In 2012, Hyderabad beat RCB and prevented them from going to the playoffs. In 2013, Hyderabad defeated KKR in the last match and eliminated RCB from the playoffs. Hyderabad once again prevented RCB from winning the title in the 2016 final. In the 2020 Eliminator match, Hyderabad defeated RCB to fulfill their dream of winning the title.

Hyderabad kept RCB Away From the title for the Most Number of times

2009 – Final
2012 – The Stan Show

2013 – Showed the Way Out of RCB by Defeating KKR

2016 – Finals
2020 – Eliminator

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Apart from this, Delhi in 2008, Mumbai in 2010, CSK in 2011, KKR in 2014, CSK in 2015, RPSG in 2017, RR in 2018, Barish in 2019, KKR in 2021 and RR in 2022 played the role of villains for RCB and He was thrown out of the playoff race or prevented from winning the title. This is the reason why RCB could not become IPL champion even once in 15 seasons. This time RCB is doing well and will try to win the title.

However, Faf du Plessis-led RCB will have to survive Aiden Markram-led SRH. While the Orange Army proved to be the death knell for RCB, it has also caused a lot of sore teeth for RCB at its home ground. If we look at the statistics in Hyderabad, seven matches were played between the two, out of which RCB managed to win only once. By the way, a total of 22 matches were played in IPL between the two teams, out of which Hyderabad won 12 while RCB won 9 matches. One match did not result.

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SRH vs RCB Head to Head in Hyderabad

2013 – Hyderabad won (Super Over)
2014 – Won Hyderabad
2015 – Bangalore Won (DLS)
2016 – Won Hyderabad
2017 – Won Hyderabad
2018 – Won Hyderabad
2019 – Hyderabad won