One of the biggest IPL rivals, Royal Challenger Bangalore (RCB) and Mumbai Indians (MI) locked horns with each other at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. After winning the toss, the RCB skipper, Virat Kohli asked the visitors to bat first. Mumbai defended a total of 187 and won the game by 6 runs in a nail-biting game.
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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Pandya’s knock
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. 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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Hardik Pandya’s knock of 32 runs off just 14 balls helped the visitors to reach the recent total. 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 as they were 60/1 after the powerplay. Virat Kohli (46) and AB de Villiers were playing good. But after, Kohli’s dismissal, it looked difficult for RCB. 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.
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However, the equation became such that RCB needed 17 runs in the final over and Shivam Dube smashed a six on the very first ball of the over to Lasith Malinga, but they failed to score another boundary in the over requiring 7 on the last ball and Malinga bowled a full toss on middle and Dube smashed it to long-on and Mumbai hung in there to clinch a thriller. However, later on, it was shown in replays that the last ball was a no-ball. Jasprit Bumrah became the player of the match.
Brief score:
Mumbai Indians 187/8 (R Sharma: 48, S Yadav: 38; Y Chahal: 4/38) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore – 181/5 (AB De Villiers 70*, M Markande: 1/23, J Bumrah 3/20) by 6 runs
