MI move to 3rd spot in IPL 2023 points table with 12 points in 11 games.
Rohit Sharma, the captain of the Mumbai Indians, chose to field first after winning the toss. In this game, Chris Jordan made his MI debut. In the beginning, RCB lost Virat Kohli for 1 and Anuj Rawat for 6 runs.
After losing two early wickets, Bangalore's captain Faf Du Plessis (65), and Glenn Maxwell (68 in 33 balls) emerged as the team's saviors, putting together an incredible 120-run stand for the third wicket to bring Bangalore back into the game.
After their dismissal, Dinesh Karthik walked up to the plate and batted well for his team, scoring 30 runs off of 18 deliveries to assist RCB reach 199/6 at the end of the 20 overs. Jason Behrendorff picked 3/36 for MI.
In reply, Rohit Sharma’s misery continued as he was out for 7 runs, but fellow opener Ishan Kishan hammered the daylights out of RCB bowlers as he slammed 42 in 21 balls with 4 fours and 4 sixes. But then the real lightning fell from the sky as Suryakumar Yadav entered the arena.
He flayed all RCB bowlers to every part of Wankhede for a 35-ball 83-run knock with 7 fours and 6 huge sixes. After his dismissal, Nehal Wadhera hit a six to complete his second successive fifty (52* with 4 fours and 3 sixes) and to take MI to win by 6 wickets in 16.3 overs.
With this win, MI moved to the 3rd spot in IPL 2023 points table with 12 points to their name in 11 games.
The cricket fraternity was awestruck with Suryakumar’s knock and lauded him on Twitter.
Here are the tweets: