Royal Challengers Bangalore has defeated Mumbai Indians by 18 runs. This high-profile match was played at Wankhede Stadium, in which RCB team batted first and scored a historic score of 240 runs. In reply, Mumbai team was able to score 215 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. When Bengaluru team came to bat, Phil Salt’s 78 runs laid the foundation of a big score. Whereas Virat Kohli played a stormy inning of 50 runs and Rajat Patidar played a stormy inning of 53 runs, taking his team to 240 runs.
29 sixes and 36 fours
A total of 462 runs were scored in this match between Bengaluru and Mumbai. Four batsmen played half-century innings in the match, hence there was heavy rain of fours and sixes. There were 29 sixes and 36 fours in both the innings combined. Sherfan Rutherford alone hit 9 sixes, who saved Mumbai Indians from a huge defeat by playing an explosive inning of 71 runs in 31 balls.
At one time, till the 17th over, Mumbai Indians had scored 166 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. At one time Mumbai was heading towards its biggest defeat by runs at Wankhede Stadium. MI’s biggest defeat by runs at home is 39 runs, but Sherfan Rutherford’s innings of 71 runs saved Mumbai from embarrassment. Mumbai team scored 56 runs in the last 3 overs. This innings saved MI from a huge defeat, which could have become a big headache for Hardik Pandya and his army in terms of net run rate.
Pandya became the hero of RCB’s victory
Dew was proving to be a big factor in the second innings. Since the ball had become very wet, it was not easy to bowl in the second innings. But Krunal Pandya gave only 26 runs in 4 overs in difficult conditions and also took the valuable wicket of Suryakumar Yadav. Somehow his spell created a big difference between Mumbai and Bengaluru.