Royal Challengers Bengaluru managed to see off a late Mumbai Indians surge to defend 221 by a margin of 12 runs on the Wankhede. Whereas Virat Kohli (67) and Rajat Patidar (64) starred with the bat, the Pandya Brothers, Hardik (42) and Krunal (4/45) mixed for both facet to make it an in depth contest.
Profitable the toss, Mumbai selected the sector first and have been immediately rewarded with the wicket of Phil Salt on the very second ball of the sport. Kohli and Padikkal ensured that they consolidated properly and even managed to get the guests to 73 by the tip of the powerplay. The hitting didn’t cease there as each batters continued to speed up earlier than Padikkal (37) lastly holed out to Will Jacks off Vignesh Puthur. Whereas RCB received to an excellent 100 in 10 overs, Patidar and Kohli went on the aggressive with the previous smashing Santner for a 20 run over. Regardless that Kohli was dismissed trying a slog sweep, Patidar took Hardik to the cleaners in a 23 run over. With Bumrah conceding solely 14 runs in his two overs, RCB completed with 221/5 of their allotted 20 overs.
Regardless that Mumbai have been handed an early blow as properly with Rohit Sharma (17) departing early, the hosts managed to get to 34 runs on the board with half the powerplay achieved. Nevertheless, with some tight bowling, RCB managed to limit Mumbai to 54 for two within the subsequent three overs. With Suyash Sharma not permitting runs in any respect, Mumbai have been solely in a position to muster 84 within the ten overs and by the point the leggie was achieved, Mumbai nonetheless wanted 105 runs in seven overs. Simply as it regarded like all hope was misplaced, in stepped Hardik Pandya with an eight ball 33 and matched with Tilak scoring 13 off Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Timeout! What a sport it’s turning out to be! It regarded like the sport was slipping away from MI however some terrific hitting from Hardik and Tilak has introduced them proper again into it. MI wanted simply 52 off 24 deliveries. Nevertheless, Bangalore stored their cool with Krunal Pandya bowling a superb final over to safe a 12 run victory.
— david Miller (@MillerDavi20894) April 7, 2025
Suryakumar Yadav – 28(26) whereas chasing 222#MIvsRCB pic.twitter.com/cfcaevVd6r
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That is the type of thrilling end i’ve been craving the previous couple of days.
What an entertaining sport these groups have given us #MIvsRCB— Gaurav Kapur (@gauravkapur) April 7, 2025
Classic
-17 runs off Suyash Over
– 22 runs off Hazelwood over
Classic RCB again in type? pic.twitter.com/n4NPhK57r4— TukTuk Academy (@TukTuk_Academy) April 7, 2025
Captain Pandya.💀 pic.twitter.com/5IKxAXoTdJ
— Gems of Cricket (@GemsOfCrickets) April 7, 2025
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Gamble
Bangalore’s gamble of asking Bhuvneshwar and Hazelwood to bowl the 18th and nineteenth over, and never worrying about Krunal for the final over, simply received the sport for them#RCBvsMI
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) April 7, 2025
Nicely tried bois😭🙏 pic.twitter.com/gY1wCgy4g2
— Shivani (@meme_ki_diwani) April 7, 2025
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