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RCB were all charged up following the big victory over MI as Virat Kohli roared in the middle of the ground after the fifth delivery of the last over when Mi lost Naman Dhir's wicket. Ace India batter and Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s star player Virat Kohli’s in-your-face celebrations in the final over of Mumbai Indians’ 222-run chase at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday, even as Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya sat still in agony, as a defeat grew near. Bengaluru stood tall in the end, following multiple twists and turns in the thrilling encounter as their bowlers held their nerves in the death to leave Wankhede with two important points.
RCB were all charged up following the big victory over MI as Kohli roared in the middle of the ground after the fifth delivery of the last over when Mumbai lost Naman Dhir’s wicket. Watch the video here: Kohli returned to form and scored a fine fifty when he took on the Mumbai bowlers, including returning Jasprit Bumrah, to help Bengaluru cross the 200-run mark. His 67-run innings was laced with eight boundaries and two sixes.
Set a daunting target of 222, Mumbai staged a brilliant late recovery to turn the tables on their opponents, but the task proved too difficult in the end for the hosts, who had not lost a match in Mumbai against Bengaluru in the last decade. Mumbai were reeling at 99/4 with their pursuit falling apart with the dismissal of Suryakumar Yadav (28), but Pandya (42 off 15 balls) and Tilak Varma (56 off 29 balls) launched a brilliant onslaught to bring them back into the contest. Rohit Sharma (17) was cleaned up by Yash Dayal (2/46) while swinging across an inswinging delivery, and Mumbai’s best batter, Suryakumar, struggled during his 28-run innings, for which he consumed 26 deliveries.
On the other hand, Tilak brought up his maiden half-century of the season off 26 deliveries to make a comeback after being retired out in the last match. The fortunes swung when Hardik clobbered two sixes and as many boundaries off his first four deliveries off Krunal Pandya in the 14th over. Before Hardik cut loose, Tilak had raced to 30 off 15 deliveries to keep Mumbai’s faint hopes alive, which kept improving with every hit that the batters unleashed.
MI next play the Delhi Capitals on Sunday, April 13, at the latter’s home and will be desperate for a win..
