MI vs RCB: IPL 2024: Mumbai: The 25th match of IPL 2024 is being played on Thursday, April 11 between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Mumbai’s home ground Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. At Wankhede, Mumbai won the toss and decided to bowl first. RCB’s start was nothing special. RCB suffered two big setbacks in the beginning itself. Jasprit Bumrah sent Virat Kohli to the pavilion by getting caught by wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan on the personal score of 3 runs on 2.3 balls. Akash Madhwal, who came with the next over, sent the new batsman Will Jack to the pavilion by getting caught by Tim David on the personal score of 8 runs. RCB’s score was 23 runs at the loss of 2 wickets.

Great partnership between captain Faf du Plessis and Rajat Patidar.

Captain Faf du Plessis and Rajat Patidar together handled the innings and till the break the team’s score reached 76 runs at the loss of 2 wickets. RCB got its third blow in the form of Rajat Patidar. Patidar played a brilliant half-century of 50 runs in 26 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 3 fours and as soon as the half-century was completed, he was caught by wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan on 11.3 balls of Gerald Coetzee. New batsman Glenn Maxwell came and went on the field. Shreyas Gopal got Glenn Maxwell out lbw without scoring any runs in 12.2 balls.

Captain Faf du Plessis performed a captaincy innings and played a brilliant inning of 61 runs. Bumrah ended the captain’s innings by getting caught by Tim David on 16.4 balls. The new batsman was out lbw by Bumrah on the very next ball. Thanks to the partnership of the captain and Rajat Patidar, the team reached a respectable score.

Bumrah’s brilliant spell this season

Bumrah took 2 more wickets for RCB in his last over. Took the wickets of both Saurav Chauhan and Vijaykumar Vishak in the same over. Bumrah’s spell in this match was very good, he took 5 wickets for only 21 runs.

Dinesh Karthik’s explosive batting

Dinesh Karthik remained on the field from one end and distributed runs for the team whenever needed and when the team needed such an innings, he proved himself and performed a brilliant half-century. RCB scored 196 runs on the score board after losing 8 wickets in 20 overs.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Playing XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (captain), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Mahipal Lomror, Reece Topley, Vijaykumar Vishak, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep

Mumbai Indians Playing XI: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Mohammad Nabi, Shreyas Gopal, Jasprit Bumrah, Gerald Coetzee, Akash Madhwal

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