WATCH: Kohli’s century powers RCB to a win over SRH; Match analysis in five minutes

Virat Kohli cracked an outstanding century (100, 63b, 12×4, 4×6) and placed on a 172-run opening stand in 17.5 overs with captain Faf du Plessis (71, 47b, 7×4, 2×6) to trend Royal Challengers Bangalore’s thumping, eight-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad and assist the group transfer nearer to the playoffs within the IPL on the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium right here on Thursday night time.

It was a pity that the belligerence of Kohli and du Plessis put to shade a scintillating century earlier by Heinrich Klaasen for the house group when it was put into bat as Sunrisers suffered a sixth defeat in seven video games at house.
Du Plessis was fortunate to be dropped on eight within the deep off pacer Kartik Tyagi and later, when on 41, was caught off debutant Nitish Kumar Reddy of what turned out to be a no-ball after a evaluate opted by the batter. But, importantly, he stayed within the center whilst Kohli displayed a stunning array of strokes – the six off Bhuvneshwar Kumar to achieve the century being the decide of the pictures for sheer audacity

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