Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Mumbai Indians by 12 runs on Monday in a very high-scoring and thrilling match of Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket. RCB beat Mumbai for the first time in 10 years at the Wankhede Stadium. This is RCB's third win in the fourth game.
Earlier, RCB defeated Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings at the same ground and climbed to the third position in the points table. Delhi Capitals and Gujarat Titans, who are in the top two positions, also have the same 6 points. But RCB is behind these two teams in net run rate. Despite the return of their key bowler Jasprit Bumrah to the field, there was no change in Mumbai's result. The team suffered the fourth defeat in 5 games.
In the 18th over, Bhuvneshwar Kumar dismissed Tilak Barma, and in the last two overs, Jessel Hazlewood and Krunal Pandye gave RCB a dramatic victory. In the last two overs, when Mumbai needed 28 runs for victory, Hazlewood dismissed captain Hardik Pandye on the first ball of the 19th over and spent only 9 runs. Hardik scored 42 runs with 3 fours and 4 sixes playing 15 balls.
In the last over, when Mumbai needed 19 runs for victory, Krunal spent only 6 runs and dismissed Mitchell Santner (8), Deepak Chahar (0) and Naman Dhir (11). Krunal spent 45 runs in 4 overs and took a total of 4 wickets. Yash Dayal took 46 in 4 overs and Hazlewood took 2-2 wickets for 37 runs. Burma scored 56 runs off 29 balls with 4 fours and a six. Suryakumar Yadav was dismissed for 28 off 26 balls, Will Jacks for 22 off 18 balls and openers Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton were dismissed for 17 runs each.
Earlier, RCB had scored 221 runs by losing 5 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs with the half-centuries of Virat Kohli and captain Rajat Patidar. Kohli, who completed his half-century in 29 balls, scored 67 runs with 8 fours and 2 sixes in a total of 42 balls. Player of the match Patidar scored 64 runs off 32 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes. Devdutt Padikal scored 37 runs off 22 balls by hitting 2 fours and 3 sixes. At the end of the innings, Jitesh Sharma scored an unbeaten 40 runs with 2 fours and 4 sixes in 19 balls.
Bumrah, who returned to the field after putting aside the injury, did not take any wicket but spent only 29 runs in 4 overs. Hardik spent 45 runs in 4 overs and took 2 wickets and Vignesh Puthur took 1 wicket.
