IPL 2020: 5 talking points from SRH v RCB | 21st September

4. Jonny Bairstow's impressive 61

Jonny Bairstow scored 61 runs off 43 balls and put SRH in the driver's seat to win the game

Chasing 164 runs to win, SRH got off to a poor start as they lost their talisman, David Warner, through an unfortunate run-out. However, Jonny Bairstow did not let RCB gain any momentum. He started cautiously and consolidated the SRH innings by building a strong partnership with Manish Pandey. The duo added 71 runs for the second wicket.

After Pandey's wicket, Bairstow began to find the boundaries regularly. He scored a brilliant 61 off just 43 balls, which included 6 fours and 2 sixes. His innings put SRH in the driver's seat to win the game.

5. SRH's stunning batting collapse that aided the RCB win

SRH from being 121-2, were bowled out for 153, after a masterstroke from RCB's Virat Kohli

At 121-2, SRH required just 43 runs from the last 5 overs to win the game and had 8 wickets in hand. Bairstow was going strong, and Priyam Garg had begun to find his touch.

Just when SRH looked to be cruising to victory, Kohli played a masterstroke by calling Yuzvendra Chahal to bowl the 16th over. Chahal cleaned up both Bairstow and Vijay Shankar off consecutive deliveries and turned the game in RCB's favour.

From then on, SRH just could not string a partnership and lost wickets in clumps. From 121-2, SRH got bowled out for 153, losing 8 wickets for just 32 runs and handing RCB their first win of the season by 10 runs.

RCB's Yuzvendra Chahal was adjudged the man of the match for his brilliant figures of 3-18. These were his thoughts after the game:

"When I bowled my first over, I realized I need to bowl stump-to-stump line and backed myself. At one point they were batting well and I was trying to bowl loopy ones and wide of the reach which helped in building pressure. When I bowled to Pandey I was trying to outside off-stump with that field, but decided to bowl within the stumps because it is difficult to hit through the leg-side and with Bairstow I bowled little fuller and outside leg so that it becomes tough for him to target the leg-side with the turn away. When Vijay came Virat and AB told me to go for a googly and it worked. I put some mud on my hands to make sure there is no dew."