Last year, 11 youths died outside the stadium in a stampede during RCB's title journey. For the same reason, both teams observed a minute's silence before the opening match and 11 seats were kept empty. Both teams played wearing black armbands.
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Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli shared a 101-run stand for the second wicket as Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) got off to a winning start in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Saturday. Defending champions RCB defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by six wickets.
RCB chased down the target of 202 runs in 15.4 overs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium by scoring 203 runs. Kohli remained unbeaten on 69 and Tim David on 16. Kohli hit 5 fours and a six in 38 balls and David hit 1 four and a six in 10 balls.
Even though Phil Salt was dismissed for 8 runs, Kohli and Padikkal guided RCB to victory. Padikkal scored 61 runs in 26 balls with 7 fours and 4 sixes. Captain Rajat Patidar also played an aggressive innings. He scored 31 runs in 12 balls with 2 fours and 3 sixes. Jitesh Sharma failed to open his account. Sunrisers' David Payne took 2 wickets and Jaydev Unadkar and Harsh Dubey took 1 wicket each.
Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad, who were invited to bat after losing the toss, scored 201 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Captain Ishan Sharma scored 80 runs in 38 balls. He hit 8 fours and 5 sixes. Aniket Verma scored 43 runs in 18 balls with 3 fours and 4 sixes. Henrik Klaasen scored 31 runs in 22 balls with 2 fours and 1 six. 
Travis Head 11, Abhishek Sharma 7, Nitish Kumar Reddy 1, Salil Arora 9, Harsh Dubey 3 and Harshal Patel were out for naught. Opening bowler Jacob Duffy took 3 wickets. He dismissed Head, Sharma and Reddy for just 22 runs in 4 overs. Romario Shepherd also took 3 wickets. But he conceded 54 runs in 4 overs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhinandan Singh and Suyash Sharma took 1 wicket each.
Last year, 11 youths died outside the stadium during RCB's title journey. For this reason, both teams observed a minute's silence before the opening match and 11 seats were kept vacant. Both teams played wearing black armbands.
Last year, RCB defeated Punjab Kings in the final in Ahmedabad to win the IPL for the first time. The next day, 11 RCB fans lost their lives and more than 50 were injured in a stampede during the parade.
All RCB players practiced wearing jersey number 11 before the match. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had started the match without any fanfare in memory of the deceased. After last year's incident, the BCCI had banned the Chinnaswamy Stadium from hosting matches. The stadium was only recently given permission to host matches after security assurances.
