Unlike in a season of football around the world, IPL offers no real easy, lopsided fixture. It's just the nature of the sport and the quality - on paper, at the very least - across the 10 teams. Yet, RCB should head to Hyderabad with renewed hope knowing that they take on a side that has struggled for cohesion all season and whose campaign has already come to a disappointing and premature end.
IPL 2023
RCB aim to enhance playoffs push
Faf du Plessis's side, fresh from giving their NRR a big lift, go up against a down-and-out SRH in Hyderabad © IPL
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