Mumbai | Mumbai Indians chased down a big target and defeat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 6 wickets in the 54th match of IPL 2023. Suryakumar Yadav played an outstanding inning of 83 runs in just 35 balls with the help of 7 fours and 6 sixes. Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and invited Royal Challengers Bangalore to bat first, although Virat Kohli, who was running in excellent form, returned to the pavilion after scoring only 1 run, despite this, due to the stormy innings of Faf Du Plessis 65 and Glenn Maxwell’s 68 runs in just 33 balls, Royal Challenger Bangalore posted 199 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the 20 overs. At the end of the innings Dinesh Karthik played a good inning of 30 runs in 18 balls. Jason Behrendoroff bowled brilliantly, took 3 wickets for 36 runs. The target of 199 runs was achieved by Mumbai Indians by losing 4 wickets in just 16.3 overs. Captain Rohit Sharma once again failed and returned to the pavilion after scoring only 7 runs. Ishan Kishan scored 42, Suryakumar Yadav scored 83 and Nehal Wadhera scored 52 not out. Wanindu Hasaranga and Vijay Kumar Vyshak took 2-2 wickets. Suryakumar Yadav was given man of the match for his brilliant batting. With this win, Mumbai Indians moved to the third position in the points table with 6 wins from 11 matches, while Royal Challengers Bangalore slipped to 7th place.
Brief Scores :
Royal Challengers Bangalore: 6/199, Glenn Maxwell 68, Faf Du Plessis 65, Jason Behrendoroff 3/36
Mumbai Indians: 4/200, Suryakumar Yadav 83, Nehal Wadhera 52, Ishan Kishan 42, Vijay Kumar Vyshak 2/37, Wanindu Hasaranga 2/53
Brilliant Batsman #sky