IPL 2020 / Mumbai Indians beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 5 wickets

In the 48th match of the 13th season of IPL, Mumbai Indians (MI) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 5 wickets. With 8 wins in the season, Mumbai remains on top in the points table. At the same time, he has also confirmed his place in the play-offs with 16 points.

Batting after losing the toss in the match played in Abu Dhabi, Bengaluru gave Mumbai a target of 165 runs. In response, Mumbai won the match by scoring 166 runs for 5 wickets in 19.1 overs. Suryakumar Yadav scored the highest 79 not out. Mohammad Siraj and Yuzvendra Chahal got 2-2 wickets.

Mumbai scored 45 in the power-play. Mumbai openers Quinton Dickock and Ishaan Kishan played well, adding 37 runs for the first wicket. Dickock was out for 18 by Mohammad Siraj. After this, Suryakumar Yadav and Kishan took the team's score to 45 runs in the power-play. Kishan scored 25 runs and was dismissed by Yuzvendra Chahal.

Saurabh Tiwari cheaply playing in the team in place of Outrohit Sharma, Saurabh Tiwari could not do anything special and was dismissed for 5 runs off 8 balls. After this, Krunal Pandya was promoted in the batting order, but he could only score 10 runs.

Bengaluru scored 164 runs for 6 wickets, but Bangalore could not convert into a big start and managed 164 runs for 6 wickets. Devdutt Padikkal scored 74, putting his fourth fifty of the season. Gurkirat Singh 14 and Washington Sundar 10 not out. At the same time, Jaspreet Bumrah completed his 100 wickets in the IPL. He took 3 wickets for 14 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, Kieron Pollard, Trent Boult and Rahul Chahar got 1-1 wickets.

The 71-run opening partnership Huidevdutt Padikkal and Josh Philip gave Bangalore a good start. Both took the team to 50 runs in the power-play. There was also a 71-run opening partnership between the two. This partnership was broken by Rahul Chahar. He stumps Philip (33) at the hands of wicket keeper Quinton Dickock.

De Villiers-Kohli did not play Captain Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers did not play in this match. Kohli scored just 9 runs. He was dismissed by Jaspreet Bumrah. After this, de Villiers made some good shots, but after 15 runs, Kieron Pollard was caught by Rahul Chahar.

Bumrah's 100 wickets in IPL Full Bumrah became the bowler who took 100 wickets in IPL as soon as Kohli took the wicket in this match. He is the 16th bowler to do so. He has taken 102 wickets in 89 matches in the league. The highest wicket in the league is named after Lasith Malinga of Mumbai Indians, who has taken 170 wickets in 122 matches. Bumrah's overall T20 has also completed 200 wickets.

3 changes in Bengaluru, no change in Mumbai

Bengaluru team made 3 changes. Shivam Dubey was given the chance to replace the injured Navdeep Saini. Dale Steyn was replaced in the playing eleven in place of Josh Phillip and Moin Ali in place of opener Aaron Finch. At the same time, there was no change in the team of Mumbai.