IPL 2019: SRH vs RCB - 3 Reasons why RCB suffered yet another defeat  this season

In match 11 of IPL 2019, Royal Challengers Bangalore made a trip to play Sunrisers Hyderabad at their home ground. While SRH are riding high on their classic win over RR, Virat Kohli's men are still looking for their first win in the tournament.

RCB won the toss and chose to field first. The match took off with a spectacular opening show set up by David Warner(100) and Jonny Bairstow(114) with an eye-popping partnership of 185 runs off 98 balls. It took them to a mammoth total of 231-2 at the end of 20 overs.

The streak of surprising events went on even as the second innings started. When RCB was expected to put up a fight, they surrendered rather meekly. They lost wickets at regular intervals and lost six even before the 10th over. This continued until the whole team was back in the dugout at a mere total of 113-10.

Here are the reasons why they suffered a third consecutive loss this season.

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#1 Sending third different pair to open

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The batting order of RCB seems to be struggling a lot this season. It is only the third match yet we have already seen three different opening pair walk up to the pitch.

They made changes far too quickly and expected results overnight. Today, they opened with Parthiv Patel and the young West Indian, Shimron Hetmyer. The team should seek for some concrete solution.

As history has revealed for RCB, opening with Virat Kohli always proves to beneficial for the side. Yet to astonishment, he has opened just once. The problem seems to swell even more down the order.

Chopping and changing the opening combination far too often is not going to work for Royal Challengers Bangalore. They may have to stick with Kohli and Parthiv, at least for a while.

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#2 Inability to take wickets

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The match witnessed the highest opening partnership by any pair in the entire history of IPL. The previous record stood at an incredible total of 184* by Gautam Gambhir and Chris Lynn on 7th April 2017.

The duo of David Warner and Jonny Bairstow put on a 185-run partnership for the opening stand. Though they played really well, RCB bowlers failed to hit the right areas with the ball.

The main reason being their inability to bowl wicket-taking deliveries in the early stages of the match. Warner and Bairstow added 59 runs in the power play overs and never slowed down after that.

Umesh Yadav was brilliant with the new ball last season but he has struggled so far this campaign. Chahal seems to be the only bowler who is looking in a good rhythm. RCB need to bring in Tim Southee to add some spice to their bowling attack.

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#3 Abysmal performance under pressure

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This could be seen at every point of the game, as RCB was pushed to an inferior position ever since the commencement of events.

Though the side has many impressive individuals who are famous for their temperament in tough situations like these, none of them could keep their cool in today's game. The incident began with their failure to restrict the opposition to a lesser target.

Seeing a great total of 231 ahead of them on the board, the team was facing an inferiority complex when they came out to bat. They were already 2 matches down. This too added to the psychological pressure.

The team started losing wickets early in the 2nd over itself. The scenario continued until a relatively stable partnership between Colin de Grandhomme and Prayas Ray Burman was there, until a comedy of errors was seen on the pitch which made de Grandhomme lose his wicket. It was then that the unit went down to witness their defeat.

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