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Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli is downcast even as he congratualites Kieron Pollard and Hardik Pandya on Mumbai Indians' 6-wicket IPL match victory at the Wankhede on Wednesday.
- Chris Gayle will be a non-starter for Royal Challengers Bangalore as it takes on Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede on Wednesday. He is off in Jamaica for the birth of his first child.
If Rohit Sharma struck a fifty to anchor the chase of 171 along with Rayudu, Pollard and Buttler kept the momentum going till the final run.
Hello and welcome to The Hindu's Live Commentary of the IPL match
between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore taking place in
Wankhede on Wednesday.
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And that's it. Mumbai save some face by winning their first home game
this season, before the IPL caravan leaves Maharashtra. This match was a
bit of a roller-coaster when you think about it. First, Virat Kohli, K
Rahul and AB de Villiers getting Royal Challengers Bangalore off to a
flier — run-rate of 8.9 in the first 10 overs. Then Krunal Pandya
happening to the match — the fifty-plus partnership between Kohli and
ABD being cut short within the space of five balls in the same over. And
for a while, the RCB batsmen looking all at sea. And then walked in the
cleanest smoothest hitters ever — Head and Shoulders... I mean, Head
and Sarfaraz.
The two men cracked the game open again with a 63-run partnership that
kicked in in the 14th over and fell out only in the 20th over — a
three-wicket one.
As Mumbai Indians got to chasing RCB's below-par score, with their top 4
needing to come good, Parthiv was the first to go. Then Ambati Rayudu
and Rohit shared a 76-run partnership, before Jos Buttler and Kieron
Pollard washed the pants off of the RCB bowlers. Pollard became The Bulk
towards the end, courtesy the generous belly he has cultivated in the
past few months.
Mumbai Indians captain and Man of the Match Rohit Sharma
says bowlers did an excellent job to restrict a team like RCB like they
did. Krunal Pandya and Harbhajan Singh get special mention. Important
for team to have hitters like Buttler and Pollard in great form, he
says. Slips in a word about Rayudu as an afterthought.
RCB 170/7 (20.0 Ovs)
MI 171/4 (18.0 Ovs)
Mumbai Indians won by 6 wkts
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