Mumbai Indians beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 46 runs in their IPL match on Tuesday.
Mumbai Indians Captain Rohit Sharma struck a brilliant 94, and the Mumbai bowlers also performed exceptionally well.
Mumbai started drastically with 0 for 2 but managed to gain a respectable total of 213 for 6, which is also the highest score of the season, mainly because of a fantastic batting performance by Rohit who scored 94 and opener Evin Lewis who scored 65.
The Mumbai Indians bowlers performed splendidly and were led by spinner Krunal Pandya who took 3 wickets for 28 runs to restrict RCB to just 167 for 8 in their 20 overs.
RCB lost the way after a promising start and even skipper Virat Kohli’s 92 not out was not enough for RCB to win over the Indians.
Mumbai Indians made a recovery after a bad start with fantastical batting by Rohit Sharma and Lewis who both scored half-centuries.
Left-handed Trinidadian Lewis struck 5 sixes and 6 fours in his 42-ball 55. After he was dismissal.Rohit, who didn’t perform well in the first three games, took over the lead role to hammer 94 in 52 balls before departing off the penultimate ball, caught at long on. Rohit smashed 5 sixes and ten fours.
Spinners Washington Sundar and YuzvendraChahal were particularly very expensive.All the RCB bowlers went for runs, including Umesh in his second spell.
Today’s defeat at the Wankhede Stadium was also RCB’s third in four games this season.
After RCB made a promising start with Kohli and de Kock who put 40 runs on the boards before a twin loss of wickets in three balls by pacer Mitchell McClenaghan took 2 for 24 and in the fifth over stopped their progress
Mitchell McClenaghan bowled de Kock for 19 and then struck another big blow by having another South African AB de Villiers (1) caught in the deep to make it 42 for two.
Kohli added 32 runs in a brief revival with Mandeep Singh (16) before Krunal Pandya grabbed two crucial wickets off successive balls. Krunal dismissed Mandeep and Corey Anderson (0) to push the visitors firmly on the back foot at 75 for four.
Washington Sundar (7), after a bad bowling spell earlier dint, perform with the bat too by becoming Krunal’s third victim to leave RCB at a difficult 86 for 5 in the 12th over.
Kohli was the lone scorer and none of the other batsmen were able to hold their ground. By the end of the 15th over, the asking rate had shot up to more than 21 an over and that was a huge task even for a batsman of Kohli’scalibre.
Ishan Kishan, MI wicketkeeper, was stuck on the face by mistake by a throw from Hardik Pandya during RCB’r run-chase and had to leave the field for medical care.
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