Pollard hit three maximums during his innings to become the third overseas player after Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers to hit 200 sixes in the IPL.
Coming into the attack in the seventh over, Shankar dismissed Rohit with a fullish cross-seam delivery.
SRH had made four changes from the one that played the last game. Apart from Natarajan, Jason Holder, Wriddhiman Saha and Shahbaz Nadeem were also excluded.
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Rohit, en route to his 32 off 25, laced with two boundaries and two sixes, also reached the milestone of 4000 T20 runs as a captain.
RCB have never won an IPL title.
The defending champions handed debut cap to Adam Milne, who came in the line-up in place of Marco Jansen.
Manish Pandey was also dropped from the Annual Player Contracts for Team India when the BCCI announced the list on Thursday.
Daniel had arrived in India on April 3 with a negative COVID-19 report but tested positive during the second test on April 7 and was in quarantine since then.
Nortje had to spend an extended period of time in quarantine due to a false positive result for COVID-19. However, the fast bowler re-joined the camp on Friday after testing negative thrice.
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