defending champion Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) returned to winning ways with a win over Mumbai Indians (MI) at the iconic Wankhede Stadium on Sunday, April 12.
After being asked to bowl first on a wicket with excellent batting, RCB openers Virat Kohli and Phil Salt put in a strong performance. The pair put 120 runs on the board in less than 11 overs. Salt returned to form and scored 78 runs in just 36 balls, top-scoring for the defending champions. Their hitting was led by captain Rajat Patidar, who scored 53 runs at a strike-rate of 265.
In response, MI Never really in the game and kept falling behind the required run-rate after each passing over, eventually falling 18 runs short. Sherfane Rutherford was the star of the show with the bat, scoring 71 not out from 31 balls, an innings that included nine sixes. However, in the end the efforts were too little and too late for the five-time champion.
The win takes RCB to six points from the first four matches and last year's champions find themselves third on the table. MI, on the other hand, have now lost three consecutive games in the league and are placed eighth in the table, above only Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders.
Like most IPL games, the MI vs RCB match also saw many individual and team milestones. These include major milestones of iconic players like Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma.
Here are the most important stats and milestones from Match 20:
- Virat Kohli: Became the first batsman to score more than 1,000
- Virat Kohli: Has been involved in most 100-run partnerships in T20 (47)
- Phil Salt: Reached 350 sixes in his T20 career
- 120:The partnership between Salt and Kohli is the second highest opening partnership for RCB against MI
- Jitesh Sharma: Reached 1,000 runs in his IPL career
- 71-0: RCB's second highest powerplay score against MI
- Rohit Sharma: Reached 6,000 IPL runs for MI
- 222: MI's highest score against RCB in IPL, better than 213/6 at the same venue in 2018.
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