The game between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad slated to be played at Bangalore on  25.04.17 was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to incessant rain and continued downpour to  provide the seventh occasion of a game abandoned  without a ball being bowled  in the history of Indian Premier League. All such occasions are tabulated above.

No	Team 1	Team 2	Result	Ground	Match Date
1	Delhi	Kolkata	Abandoned	Delhi	May 22, 2008
2	Mumbai	Rajasthan	Abandoned	Durban	Apr 21, 2009
3	Chennai	Kolkata	Abandoned	Cape Town	Apr 25, 2009
4	Bangalore	Rajasthan	Abandoned	Bangalore	Apr 19, 2011
5	Kolkata	Deccan	Abandoned	Kolkata	Apr 24, 2012
6	Kolkata	Rajasthan	Abandoned	Kolkata	Apr 26, 2015
7	Bangalore	Sunrisers	Abandoned	Bangalore	Apr 25, 2017

It is the second such game to be abandoned with a ball being bowled – both for Royal Challengers Bangalore as a team and also for Bangalore as a Ground.  The first such occasion was against Rajasthan at Bangalore on 19.04.11

Indian Premier League has witnessed an abandoned game on the same date – that is 25^th of April – eight years ago. On 25.04.09, the game between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders at Cape Town was  abandoned without a ball being bowled.

Kolkata Knight Riders is one of the teams involved in an abandoned game on four occasions – most in the tournament.  Rajasthan has experienced three such games and Bangalore on two occasions. Indian Premier League editions of 2010, 2013 and 2014 and 2016 did not witness an abandoned game

The abandoned games without a ball being bowled and without toss do not count in the list of any cricket games and is not added to the career of the cricketers and to  the  match officials. Statisticians, Scorers and Commentators should take a note of this.

However abandoned games after the toss gets counted in the list and gets added as a game to the careers of the eleven cricketers nominated by the teams prior to the toss and also to career of the match officials