Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: IPL H2H
By CricketTaken EditorialPublished Cricket in the Indian Premier League10 min read
Sunrisers Hyderabad have won fifteen of the 28 matches against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, who have won twelve. One meeting was abandoned and one, the first they ever played, was tied and decided by a Super Over that Hyderabad won.
Two of these matches sit in the competition's permanent record. On 29 May 2016 the two met in the final at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium — Bengaluru's own ground — and Hyderabad won by eight runs, 208 for 7 against 200 for 7. It is Hyderabad's only IPL title and remains the closest Bengaluru came to one for nine years.
Then, at the same ground on 15 April 2024, Hyderabad made 287 for 3 with Travis Head scoring 102 from 41 balls and Heinrich Klaasen 67 from 31. Bengaluru replied with 262 for 7. The 549 runs in that match is the highest aggregate any Twenty20 fixture has produced, anywhere, and the 287 is the largest total in IPL history.
Both knockouts, and both went to Hyderabad
| Season | Stage | Ground | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Final | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | SRH 208/7 beat RCB 200/7 by 8 runs |
| 2020 | Eliminator | Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi | SRH 132/4 (19.4) beat RCB 131/7 by 6 wickets |
Bengaluru had beaten Hyderabad by 45 runs at Chinnaswamy earlier in 2016 and lost the away leg by 15, so the final was the deciding meeting of a season split evenly. In 2020 the pattern repeated: Bengaluru won the first league fixture in Dubai by ten runs, lost the second at Sharjah, and then lost the Eliminator with two balls left. The 2016 season and 2020 season pages carry both campaigns.
Ledger and grounds
| Where | Matches | RCB won | SRH won | No result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium) | 10 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| Neutral and relocated | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| All matches | 28 | 12 | 15 | 1 |
Both sides hold their own ground and Bengaluru's is the firmer, six wins from nine completed matches — though the one they lost most heavily there was the 2016 final and the one that produced the most runs was the 2024 game. Hyderabad's home record of 7-3 includes the 118-run win of 31 March 2019, the largest margin in the fixture.
The neutral column covers the two UAE seasons, the 2022 season's Mumbai venues, a Chepauk fixture in 2021 and the relocated 2025 match at Lucknow's Ekana Stadium.
| Ground | Matches | RCB won | SRH won |
|---|---|---|---|
| M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru | 10 | 6 | 3 |
| Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad | 10 | 3 | 7 |
| Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Dubai International Cricket Stadium | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sharjah Cricket Stadium | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Every meeting, 2013 to 2026
| # | Season | Date | Stage | Ground | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2013 | 7 April | League | Rajiv Gandhi Intl Stadium, Hyderabad | Tied; SRH won the Super Over |
| 2 | 2013 | 9 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RCB won by 7 wickets |
| 3 | 2014 | 4 May | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RCB won by 4 wickets |
| 4 | 2014 | 20 May | League | Rajiv Gandhi Intl Stadium, Hyderabad | SRH won by 7 wickets |
| 5 | 2015 | 13 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | SRH won by 8 wickets |
| 6 | 2015 | 15 May | League | Rajiv Gandhi Intl Stadium, Hyderabad | RCB won by 6 wickets (D/L) |
| 7 | 2016 | 12 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RCB won by 45 runs |
| 8 | 2016 | 30 April | League | Rajiv Gandhi Intl Stadium, Hyderabad | SRH won by 15 runs |
| 9 | 2016 | 29 May | Final | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | SRH won by 8 runs |
| 10 | 2017 | 5 April | League | Rajiv Gandhi Intl Stadium, Hyderabad | SRH won by 35 runs |
| 11 | 2017 | 25 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | No result |
| 12 | 2018 | 7 May | League | Rajiv Gandhi Intl Stadium, Hyderabad | SRH won by 5 runs |
| 13 | 2018 | 17 May | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RCB won by 14 runs |
| 14 | 2019 | 31 March | League | Rajiv Gandhi Intl Stadium, Hyderabad | SRH won by 118 runs |
| 15 | 2019 | 4 May | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RCB won by 4 wickets |
| 16 | 2020 | 21 September | League | Dubai International Cricket Stadium | RCB won by 10 runs |
| 17 | 2020 | 31 October | League | Sharjah Cricket Stadium | SRH won by 5 wickets |
| 18 | 2020 | 6 November | Eliminator | Sheikh Zayed Stadium | SRH won by 6 wickets |
| 19 | 2021 | 14 April | League | M. A. Chidambaram Stadium | RCB won by 6 runs |
| 20 | 2021 | 6 October | League | Sheikh Zayed Stadium | SRH won by 4 runs |
| 21 | 2022 | 23 April | League | Brabourne Stadium | SRH won by 9 wickets |
| 22 | 2022 | 8 May | League | Wankhede Stadium | RCB won by 67 runs |
| 23 | 2023 | 18 May | League | Rajiv Gandhi Intl Stadium, Hyderabad | RCB won by 8 wickets |
| 24 | 2024 | 15 April | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | SRH won by 25 runs |
| 25 | 2024 | 25 April | League | Rajiv Gandhi Intl Stadium, Hyderabad | RCB won by 35 runs |
| 26 | 2025 | 23 May | League | Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow | SRH won by 42 runs |
| 27 | 2026 | 28 March | League | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium | RCB won by 6 wickets |
| 28 | 2026 | 22 May | League | Rajiv Gandhi Stadium, Hyderabad | SRH won by 55 runs |
The alternating pattern is real: in twelve of the fourteen seasons the two have split their meetings, and in the two that did not — 2016 and 2020 — the deciding match was a knockout Hyderabad won. Neither side has won more than three consecutive matches in the fixture, and Hyderabad's three-in-a-row across 2016 and 2017 is the longest.
Totals: the widest range in the competition
| Total | Team | Season | Ground |
|---|---|---|---|
| 287/3 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2024 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
| 262/7 | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 2024 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
| 255/4 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2026 | Rajiv Gandhi Stadium |
| 231/2 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2019 | Rajiv Gandhi Intl Stadium |
| 231/6 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2025 | Ekana Cricket Stadium |
| 227/4 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 2016 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
| 218/6 | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 2018 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
| 208/7 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2016 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium |
Fifteen innings in 27 completed matches have passed 200, which is the highest rate of any fixture in this section of the site. Yet the same pairing produced Bengaluru's 68 all out at the Brabourne Stadium on 23 April 2022, chased down in eight overs, and their 113 all out at Hyderabad in 2019. The gap between 287 and 68 is 219 runs, and both figures belong to matches played inside three years of each other.
The IPL's highest team totals page carries the 287, and the M. Chinnaswamy pitch report explains the ground where nine of the fifteen 200-plus innings were made.
Margins and the close finishes
Hyderabad hold the fixture's largest margin, 118 runs at home in 2019, and Bengaluru the second at 67 runs at the Wankhede in 2022. But most of the fixture has been tight: the eight-run final, a four-run result at Abu Dhabi in 2021, a five-run result at Hyderabad in 2018, a six-run result at Chepauk in 2021, and the Super Over of 2013.
| Side | Wins | Won defending | Won chasing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 12 | 6 | 6 |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 15 | 9 | 5 |
Hyderabad defend more often than they chase here, which fits the two knockouts only loosely — the 2016 final was a defence, the 2020 Eliminator a chase.
Four observations the tables leave out:
- Bengaluru have won six matches at Chinnaswamy and lost the one that decided a title there. Both facts belong to the same ground and the same fixture.
- Hyderabad's five most recent wins came by 25, 42, 55, four and nine wickets — no pattern of margin, and three of the five away from Hyderabad.
- The 2015 match at Hyderabad was cut short by rain, with Bengaluru reaching 83 for 4 in 5.9 overs against a revised target after Hyderabad had made 135 for 3 in eleven.
- Neither side has taken both legs of a season since Hyderabad in 2017, which is nine seasons of split results and knockouts.
Franchise context
Hyderabad's IPL history begins in 2013; the city's earlier franchise, Deccan Chargers, was a separate entry whose licence was terminated after 2012, and its matches against Bengaluru are not part of this fixture.
The Royal Challengers Bengaluru hub and the Sunrisers Hyderabad hub hold squad and honours detail, and the IPL index lists every season. Virat Kohli's RCB record covers all 28 matches, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar's Hyderabad career most of them. Bengaluru's longest fixture, against Kolkata Knight Riders, also produced one of the competition's record collapses. The 2024 season page covers the year of the 549-run match, and the cricket in India hub sets the league against the domestic calendar.
Sources and method
Results, dates, grounds, innings totals and margins are computed from this site's IPL season match lists for 2013 to 2026 and checked against ESPNcricinfo scorecards. Two matches were verified in detail: the 2016 final, an eight-run Hyderabad win, and the Chinnaswamy match of 15 April 2024, where Head's 102 from 41 balls, Klaasen's 67 from 31, the 287 for 3, the 262 for 7 in reply and the 549-run aggregate all come from that scorecard and the reports of it. The 549 was the highest aggregate in Twenty20 cricket when it was set.
Conventions. The 28 total includes the abandoned Chinnaswamy fixture of 25 April 2017, which is shown as a no result and excluded from the win columns and all averages. The tied match of April 2013 is credited to Hyderabad because the Super Over decided it; a reader separating ties can read the ledger as Bengaluru 12, Hyderabad 14, one tied, one no result. Deccan Chargers matches are excluded as explained above. Franchise names follow the season, so Royal Challengers Bangalore through 2023. The Hyderabad ground appears under three name and locality forms in the source records and is consolidated to ten matches. Home allocation follows the designated host, so the 2025 Ekana fixture sits in the neutral row as a relocated match.
Fixture-only individual aggregates are not published here. The underlying dataset records match results rather than ball-by-ball detail, so a leading run scorer or wicket taker across these 28 matches specifically cannot be computed from it and has been left out rather than estimated. Figures current as of 27 August 2026.