MI vs RCB / Mumbai chased down the target of 200 in 99 balls, MI reached No.3 in the points table

MI vs RCB: Mumbai Indians registered a comfortable 6-wicket win over Royals Challengers Bangalore in the 54th match of the Indian Premier League 2023. The team achieved the target of 200 runs in just 16.3 overs. Mumbai chased their biggest run against RCB. Batting first after losing the toss, Bangalore scored 199 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. In response, Mumbai achieved the target thanks to Suryakumar Yadav's 83 runs.

This is Mumbai's fourth consecutive win over Bengaluru at the Wankhede Stadium. The team captained by Rohit Sharma has not lost here since 2015 against Bengaluru.

With this win, Mumbai has jumped five places from number 8 to the third position in the points table. This is Mumbai's sixth win in 11 matches. The team has 12 points.

This is how Mumbai's wickets fell

First: On the 4th ball of the 5th over, Vanidu Hasaranga got Ishaan Kishan caught by wicketkeeper Anuj Rawat.

Second: Rohit Sharma LBW on the ball of Vanindu Hasaranga. The team lost the captain's wicket on the last ball of the 5th over.

Third: On the fourth ball of the 16th over, Vijaykumar Vaishak got Suryakumar Yadav caught by Kedar Jadhav.

Fourth: Vaishak got Tim David caught by Maxwell on the 5th ball of the 16th over.

Surya's Fifty in 26 balls

Suryakumar Yadav came to bat from Mumbai after losing 2 wickets in the 5th over of the powerplay. He formed a partnership with Nehal Wadhera and completed his fifty in 26 balls. He shared a century partnership with Wadhera and brought his team close to victory. He has also scored 3000 IPL runs.

Century partnership between Surya-Vadhera

After losing the wickets of both the openers for 52 runs, Suryakumar and Nehal Wadhera took Bengaluru towards victory by sharing a century partnership. Both have partnered 100+ for the third wicket.

Ishaan made fifty partnership with Rohit

Chasing the target of 200 runs, Ishaan Kishan got Mumbai off to a brisk start. He made a 51-run partnership with Rohit Sharma by playing an innings of 42 runs in just 21 balls. Ishaan was dismissed by Vanindu Hasaranga and the partnership was broken. Rohit also got LBW in the same over. In the Powerplay, the team scored 62 runs at the loss of 2 wickets.

Bengaluru scored 199 runs on the basis of Faf-Glenn's partnership

Batting first after losing the toss, Bengaluru scored 199 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs.

Mumbai won the toss and chose bowling at the Wankhede Stadium. For Bangalore, captain Faf du Plessis scored an innings of 65 off 41 balls, while Glenn Maxwell scored 68 off 33 balls.

Jason Behrendorff of Mumbai took 3 wickets. Cameron Green, Chris Jordan and Kumar Karthikeya got one wicket each.

This is how the wickets of Bengaluru fell.

First: The 5th ball of the first over was out-swinged by Behrendorff, the ball took the edge of Kohli's bat and went into the gloves of wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan. The umpire did not give out on the big appeal of Mumbai. In such a situation, Captain Rohit took DRS and the decision went in favor of Mumbai.

Second: On the second ball of the third over, Anuj Rawat wanted to play a scoop shot, but Behrendorff's short length ball took the top edge of the batsman's bat and stood in the air. Cameron Green took a simple catch behind the slips and Rawat had to return to the pavilion.

Third: Jason Behrendorff bowled the third ball of the 13th over at a good length. Glenn Maxwell was caught at covers, he scored 68 runs.

Fourth: The fourth ball of the 14th over, Kumar Kartikeya threw a flipper on good length. Mahipal Lomror gets bowled. He scored a run.

Fifth: Cameron Green wanted to hit du Plessis outside the off stump, but the ball could not be timed and went towards the fine leg boundary, where Vishnu Vinod caught it in the third attempt. This wicket fell on the first ball of the 15th over.

Sixth: Jordan's off cutter wanted to pull the ball at the start of the 19th over, but was caught by Wadhera in the direction of deep leg.

Sixth 50 of the season Faf du Plessis

Bengaluru captain Faf du Plessis also scored a fifty against Mumbai. This was his sixth fifty this season. He scored 65 runs in 41 balls with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes. He is leading the race for the Orange Cap holder by scoring more than 600 runs in the tournament. He had scored more than 400 runs for Bengaluru last season, in this way he has also scored more than 1000 runs in 2 seasons for Bengaluru.

Maxwell's Fifty in 25 balls

Glenn Maxwell from Bengaluru came out to bat at number four after losing wickets in the early overs. He scored fast runs in the powerplay itself and also completed Fifty in 25 balls in the 10th over of the innings. This is the 17th half-century of his career and the fourth half-century of this IPL season. Maxwell got out after scoring 68 runs in 33 balls.

Du Plessis-Maxwell's century partnership

After losing 2 wickets in the first 3 overs of the powerplay, captain Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell took charge of Bengaluru's innings. Both scored fast and made a fifty partnership in 25 balls. Both added 120 runs off 62 balls. Maxwell got out after scoring 68 runs and this partnership was broken.

After Maxwell, Faf du Plessis also completed his fifty in 30 balls.

Bengaluru suffered two setbacks in the powerplay

Bengaluru lost two wickets in the powerplay. Virat Kohli was dismissed for one and Anuj Rawat scored six runs. Even after this, the team scored 56 runs in 6 overs.

Chris jordan playing debut match

Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma has given Chris Jordan a chance in place of injured Joffra Archer. Jordan is going to make IPL debut from Mumbai. At the same time, Vijaykumar Vaishak has returned in place of Karan Sharma in Bengaluru.

See playing eleven

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (captain), Virat Kohli, Anuj Rawat, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Vanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Vijaykumar Vaishak, Mohammed Siraj and Josh Hazlewood.

Impact Players: Kedar Jadhav, Michael Bracewell, Suyash Prabhadesai, Karan Sharma and Shehbaz Ahmed.

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan, Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Chris Jordan, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Karthikeya and Jason Behrendorff.

Impact Players: Ramandeep Singh, Tristern Stubbs, Vishnu Vinod, Sandeep Warriors and Raghav Goel.