Cricket Highlights, 12 April: IPL 2024 (Match 25) – Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Match 25) – Highlights

Although the batsmen did a good job for them, the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) bowlers did not turn up the things on their behalf at the Wankhede in Mumbai. Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan’s devastating innings helped Mumbai Indians (MI) reach the big target of 197 runs with 27 balls in hand. Hardik Pandya’s team beat RCB by 7 wickets for their second consecutive win. On the other hand, Faf du Plessis’s RCB has tasted its fourth consecutive defeat.

Chasing the target of 197 runs set by Royal Challengers in IPL 2024 on Thursday (April 11), Mumbai Indians reached the port of victory losing just 3 wickets in 15.3 overs. Ishan scored 69 off 34 balls and Suryakumar scored 52 off 19 balls.

MI won the last match after three consecutive losses. Their win against Royal Challengers was crucial to keep them in playoff contention. The win was important even for RCB who had just one win in 5 matches. However, Hardik’s team had the last laugh in the field in the battle between the two teams. Suryakumar and Ishan gave the home fans a great win.

Ishan and Rohit Sharma played storming innings in the run chase. They brought the team to a hundred runs in 8.3 overs ruling over the RCB bowlers. MI took possession of the match immediately. Defeat was almost certain for Royal Challengers then.

RCB tried to get back into the fight by picking up the wicket of devastating Ishan on the fifth ball of the ninth over. Hitting 7 fours and 5 sixes, he made 69 runs from 34 balls. Ishan was caught by Virat Kohli off the ball of Akash Deep. But even that did not bring relief in the RCB camp. Suryakumar came to accompany Rohit.

Will Jacks sent Rohit back to the dressing room on the 12th over. Rohit scored 38 runs off 24 balls, hitting 3 sixes and 3 fours. The team’s collection was 139 runs then. Hardik came to the crease after the Hitman made his way to the pavilion. He hit Jacks for a six off the first ball. Suryakumar continued his flurry of four-sixes at the other end. He picked up a 17-ball fifty with 5 fours and 4 sixes.

In the end, Suryakumar was caught by Mahipal Lomror in the 14th over after scoring 52 runs off 19 balls. The team collected 176 runs after losing 3 wickets. Only 21 runs were needed from 39 balls to win. Hardik scored 21 runs from 6 balls with 3 sixes and Tilak Varma completed the rest of the work easily scoring 16 runs from 10 balls with 3 fours. Akash Deep alone gave 55 runs in 3.3 overs.

At the beginning, Royal Challengers bat first after losing the Toss and collected 196 runs in 20 overs relying on Faf du Plessis, Rajat Patidar, and Dinesh Karthik’s fifty innings. Du Plessis scored 61 off 40 balls, Rajat 53 off 26 balls and Karthik 53 off 23 balls. Virat and Glenn Maxwell were unsuccessful on the day. Virat made 3 off 9 balls and Maxwell left the crease for zero runs.

Jasprit Bumrah was brilliant with the ball on a day when MI’s bowlers were outclassed by Rajat and Karthik. He took 5 wickets at the cost of 21 runs. The highest wicket-taker of the current edition was recognized by the Purple Cap. His victim number is 10 wickets in 5 matches. Akash Madhwal gave the most runs for the team. Despite taking one wicket, he bowled 4 overs and gave away 57 runs. Gerald Coetzee’s victim was also a wicket at the second-highest cost of 42 runs.

Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Scoreboard

Royal Challengers Bengaluru – 196/8 (20.0)

Mumbai Indians – 199/3 (15.3)

Result – Mumbai Indians won by 7 wickets

Player of the match – Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah

Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Playing XIs

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