Chasing 187 runs to win, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis stitched together a 172-run opening partnership to keep RCB's play-offs aspirations alive in the 2023 Indian Premier League. Kohli also brought up his sixth hundred of the tournament, equalling the record of his former team-mate Chris Gayle. SRH bowlers looked shell-shocked, not knowing how to counter the onslaught by the RCB batters. Although they managed to get both Kohli and Faf out late in the innings, it was too late to stage any sort of comeback. Earlier in the evening, wicketkeeper-batter Heinrich Klaasen carried the SRH innings with a masterful 104 off 51 deliveries, which was also his maiden hundred of the tournament.