Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Match Prediction – Who will win today’s match?

Royal Challengers Bengaluru will take on Sunrisers Hyderabad in the opening match of the Indian Premier League 2026. This match will be played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Royal Challengers Bengaluru are the defending champions having won the title in 2025. They will be led by Rajat Patidar and will look to start the season well.

On the other hand, Ishan Kishan will lead the side for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the absence of Pat Cummins. They have a very strong batting lineup and will be keen to have a better season this around. This should be a closely fought game between these two sides. In this article we look at the playing XIs, top picks, pitch reports for this match.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Match Details

Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Stats

Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Probable Playing XI

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Devdutt Paddikal, Rajat Patidar ©, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jacob Duffy, Mangesh Yadav

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Aniket Verma, Klassen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Liam Livingstone, Harshal Patel, Harsh Dubey, Brydon Carse, Jaydev Unadkat.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Dream11 Captaincy Picks

Virat Kohli has scored 8661 runs in his IPL career. He will be a RCB vs SRH Dream11 captaincy pick.

Krunal Pandya has a good record in this format and will give points with both his batting and bowling. She will be a top pick in this RCB vs SRH Dream11 match.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Sunrisers Hyderabad Match winner

Royal Challengers Bengaluru looks a better side when we compare the overall squad of both sides and RCB are expected to win this match.