MI vs RCB: After losing the toss, Royal Challengers Bangalore, playing first, scored 196 runs against Mumbai Indians. In this match being played at Wankhede Stadium, MI will have to score 197 runs to win. RCB had lost the wickets of Virat Kohli and debutant Will Jacques early, due to which the team lost 2 important wickets for just 23 runs. But after that there was a brilliant partnership of 82 runs between captain Faf du Plessis and Rajat Patidar. Duplessis scored the highest 61 runs for RCB. He also hit 4 fours and 3 sixes in this stormy innings. Patidar scored 50 runs in a 26-ball innings studded with 3 fours and 4 sixes. In the last overs, Dinesh Karthik also played a stormy innings of 53 runs and took the team beyond the score of 190 runs.
In the last 5 overs, RCB batsmen batted stormily and scored 66 runs. After the 15th over the team's score was 130 runs for 4 wickets. Although 19 runs came in the 16th over, in the very next over Jasprit Bumrah hit Tim David and Mahipal Lomror with consecutive balls. Meanwhile, Bumrah got a chance for a hat-trick twice, but he failed both times. 19 runs came in the last over, due to which RCB ended its innings on the score of 196 runs.
Jasprit Bumrah's paw went waste
In the match against RCB, Jasprit Bumrah wreaked havoc on the batsmen of the opposition team. He took 5 wickets for just 21 runs in his 4 overs. With this, Bumrah has completed 10 wickets in the current season of IPL and he has jointly reached the first place with Yuzvendra Chahal in the Purple Cap race. He dismissed 5 players including Virat Kohli. Mumbai Indians used 7 bowlers including Bumrah. Shreyas Gopal, who came in place of Piyush Chawla, bowled brilliantly and took 1 wicket. Gerald Coetzee and Akash Madhwal also took 1 wicket each, but both were badly beaten.
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