Bangalore: IPLA stunning win for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Rajat Patidar’s team snatched victory by 2 wickets in the last over in a tense and exciting match against Mumbai Indians. They are currently at the top of the points table. RCB’s horse is running. Previous champion team. They are currently at the top in the fight to retain the title. On the other hand, five-time champions Mumbai Indians once again ended their playoff hopes before playing all their league level matches.
Mumbai batted first in today’s match. Apart from Tilak Verma and Naman Dhir, no other batsman could play such a big innings. Rohit Sharma played an innings of 22 runs off 10 balls. Suryakumar Yadav failed to score any runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave trouble to Mumbai batters on this day. He alone took 4 wickets for 23 runs in 4 overs. Tilak Verma played an innings of 57 runs off 42 balls. He hit three boundaries and two sixes. Naman Dhir played an innings of 47 runs off 32 balls. He hit five boundaries and two sixes.
In reply, neither Jacob Bethel nor Virat Kohli could last long in chasing runs. Virat could not open the account that day. Bethel scored 27 runs off 27 balls. Devdutta Padikkal, who dropped to number three, was dismissed for 12 and skipper Rajat Patidar scored only 8 runs. 4 wickets fell out of 94 runs. At that time Jitesh Sharma and Kranal Pandya took the reins of the team. Jitesh scored 18 runs off 12 balls but Kranal was the best batsman of the match. He played a match-winning innings of 73 runs off 46 balls for RCB. Due to which the victory of the team was almost assured. Still there was Bumrah in the death overs. He was looking for an opportunity to surprise. Similarly, eight wickets of RCB also fell at one point. 2 runs were needed off the last ball. The last over was bowled by Suryakumar to Raj Bawa. But he could not gain the trust of the captain. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Rashik Salam Dar took two runs off the last ball. Bumrah did not get any wicket in the match but spent only 20 runs in 4 overs.