Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore will lock horns in an important match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday (May 18).
It will be a massive tie for RCB, whose playoff hopes are hanging on a thread. A win will be a massive boost for RCB, whereas a defeat can jeopardize their hopes significantly. SRH meanwhile are out of the tounrament, but will be keen on finishing the season on a high.

SRH vs RCB Match Date, Time and Venue: The match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore will be taking place at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Thursday. The match starts at 7.30 pm IST.
SRH vs RCB Live Stream and Telecast: The IPL 2023 Match 65 between SRH and RCB will broadcast live on Star Sports network in multiple languages. Star Sports 1 and Star Sports 1 HD will be showing the match with English commentary.
Indian viewers can also enjoy the live stream of the match through the JioCinema app and website. The viewers can enjoy the commentary in 12 Indian languages in the live stream, namely in English, Hindi, Bengali, Odiya, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi and Gujarati.
Aiden Markram (C), Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips, Abhishek Sharma, Marco Jansen, Washington Sundar, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Harry Brook, Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen, Adil Rashid, Mayank Markande, Vivrant Sharma, Samarth Vyas, Sanvir Singh, Upendra Yadav, Mayank Dagar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Anmolpreet Singh, Akeal Hosein, Abdul Samad
Faf du Plessis (C), Virat Kohli, Suyash Prabhudessai, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Finn Allen, Glenn Maxwell, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mahipal Lomror, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood, Siddarth Kaul, Akash Deep, Reece Topley (replaced by Wayne Parnell), Himanshu Sharma, Will Jacks (injured, replaced by Michael Bracewell), Manoj Bhandage, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, R Sonu Yadav, Vijaykumar Vyshak (replacement for Rajat Patidar), Kedar Jadhav (replacement for David Willey)
SRH's season has been marred with inconsistency and frugality at crunch moments. They are staring down the barrel for this season but can definitely act as the party poopers for the other teams. RCB have seen both sides of the coin this year.
From despairing defeat to vibrant victory - they have seen it all. But they need to come all guns blazing on Thursday. With the quality of their squad, they can blow away a depleted SRH side. But a collective cohesion will be key in all departments.
With that keep in mind, our prediction still favours Faf du Plessis and his team to get a victory and get closer to the elusive playoff spots.
Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore have faced each other 22 times in IPL. RCB have won 9 of them while SRH have won 12 matches, with 1 ending in No Result.