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. 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.
Rohit was also dismissed by Umesh Yadav in the 11th over, then came Yuvraj Singh, who was the highest scorer for Mi in the last game. The 13th over of the game was started by Chahal and Yuvraj smashed him for three-consecutive sixes on the first three balls itself before getting dismissed on the fourth ball of the over.
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After Yuvraj’s dismissal, 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. One of them even went over the shed at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
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On the third ball of the over, Siraj bowled a fullish length ball and Hardik stayed deep in the crease to gets underneath the ball and massacred it straight down the ground. However, on the penultimate delivery of the innings, Siraj missed the yorker again and Pandya was again standing deep in the crease and with the help of his strong wrists he sent the ball out of the ground as it was a 104-meter six.
Here are the videos of both the sixes:
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1111306053059137536
https://twitter.com/Vidshots1/status/1111305851279532033
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.
