Royal Challengers Bangalore could not win the title of IPL for 3rd time also despite presence of super star players and Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated RCB by 8 runs in IPL 2016 final.
The final match was played in Bangalore in which SRH batted first. Captain Warner and Shikhar Dhawan score 63 runs for opening partnership. Dhawan lost his wicket after scoring 28 runs and Henriques also got out early.
Warner continued his aggressive batting from second end as he scored 69 runs of 38 balls with 8 fours and 3 sixes. Then, Yuvraj played his part and scored 38 of just 23 balls. But the real work was done by Ben Cutting who scored 39 runs in just 15 balls with the help of 3 fours and 4 sixes. In the allotted overs, SRH scored 208 runs for the loss of 7 wickets.
In reply, Gayle and Kohli took the score of RCB to 114 in 11th over. Gayle score 76 runs with 4 fours and 8 sixes. Skipper Kohli made 54 runs but later deVilliers scored 5 and Rahul and Watson scored 11 runs each. The host team could score 200 runs for 7 wickets in their allotted overs and lost the match with 8 runs.