Currently, one of the biggest IPL rivals, Royal Challenger Bangalore (RCB) and Mumbai Indians (MI) at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. After winning the toss, the RCB skipper, Virat Kohli asked the visitors to bat first. Similar to the last game for Mumbai, Rohit Sharma came out to bat with Quinton de Kock for the opening position.
During the toss, the MI skipper, Rohit revealed that they have made two changes to their squad as Ben Cutting and Rasik Salam made way for Lasith Malinga and Mayank Markande. On the other hand, RCB made no changes to their squad. Mumbai started really well as Rohit and De Kock added 52 runs in the batting powerplay itself, but in the 7th over itself, they lost the latter and the credit for that goes to Yuzvendra Chahal.
Later in the innings, Mumbai crumbled as they lost, Surya Kumar Yadav, Kieron Pollard and Krunal Pandya in quick succession and soon they were reeling 172/7 at the 19-over mark. However, the flamboyant all-rounder, Hardik Pandya was still at the crease and he smacked Mohammad Siraj for two towering sixes in the final over and one of them even went over the shed at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
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Mumbai has set a target of 188 in their quota of 20 over. However, Chahal was the pick of the bowlers for the RCB as he finished the 4-over spell with the figures of 4/38.
During the chase, RCB started off well with 60/1 after the powerplay. Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers playing good, but after, Kohli’s dismissal, it looked difficult for RCB as Shimron Hetmyer also got out early but ABD kept the hopes alive. Testimony of the same came in the 18th over when De Villiers gave Hardik a taste of his own medicine by smashing him for two back-to-back sixes.
WATCH – Hardik Pandya Smashes Siraj Out Of The Ground
On the fourth ball of the over, Hardik delivered a slower ball and ABD nearly came down on the ground to smack it over the cover-point boundary for an impossible looking six. Again on the next ball which was a full toss, De Villiers helped along over deep square-leg for a huge six.
Here is the video of the same:
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1111333587133952000
