Mumbai Indians (MI) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 7 wickets in the IPL 2024 match played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday (April 11). This is RCB's fifth defeat in six matches and ninth place in the points table. After the defeat, captain Faf du Plessis said that his team faced a lot of problems due to dew during bowling.

Du Plessis said after the match” It is quite difficult to accept this defeat. There are two main reasons – one is that dew has caused us a lot of problems and the other thing is that I need to win some tosses somehow. Mumbai team played very well, kept the pressure on us and we made a lot of mistakes especially during the power play. It is very difficult to bowl with dew. However, such is the game of cricket, where circumstances have a great influence. In this situation we probably would have had to score more than 250 runs.”

Du Plessis further said, “We have to find ways with the bat, score big, we know our bowling is not our strongest side, but we have to find ways to manage it, we have to be creative and bat in the first 4.” “Will have to bat well in 5 overs.”

It is noteworthy that after being invited to bat first, RCB had scored 196 runs at the loss of 8 wickets on the basis of half-centuries of Du Plessis, Rajat Patidar and Dinesh Karthik. Jasprit Bumrah, who was the player of the match for Mumbai, took 5 wickets. In response to which Mumbai won with the loss of 3 wickets with 15.3 overs remaining. Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav scored stormy half-centuries for Mumbai.