IPL 2022: Rawat and Kohli stitched up partnership to guide RCB home
Match Venue - Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune. Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets. Mumbai Indians 4th straight defeat.
Virat Kohli back among runsMumbai Indians Scorecard: Mumbai Indians Scored 151/6 in 20 overs
Mumbai Indians leading Run Scorers: Ishan Kishan (w) opened the innings with 26 runs from 28 balls with 3 fours, Rohit Sharma looked impressive with the bat but was caught & bowled by Harshal Patel with 26 runs from 15 balls with 1 six and 4 fours, Suryakumar Yadav played the best innings for Mumbai Indians and stayed till the end making 68 runs in just 37 balls 6 sixes and 5 fours. Mumabi Indians needs more partnership at the top for the lower order batsmen to capitalize on it. Unfortunately Rohit Sharma is off color with his bat and apart from Suryakumar Yadav none batsmen seems to come to build on their starts.
Royal Challengers Bangalore best bowlers: Wanindu Hasaranga & Harshal Patel took 2 wickets each with an economic bowling spell, Akash Deep was also economical and took 1 wicket.
Mumbai Indians Fall of Wickets : 1 - 50 (Rohit Sharma, 6.2 ov) , 2 - 60 (Dewald Brevis, 8.3 ov) , 3 - 62 (Ishan Kishan, 9.2 ov) , 4 - 62 (Tilak Varma, 9.5 ov) , 5 - 62 (Kieron Pollard, 10.1 ov) , 6 - 79 (Ramandeep Singh, 13.2 ov)
Royal Challengers Bangalore Scorecard: Royal Challengers Bangalore Scored 152/3 in 18.3 overs
Royal Challengers Bangalore Leading Run Scorer: Anuj Rawat played match-winning innings by scoring 66 runs from 47 balls with 6 sixes and 2 fours. Virat Kohli seems to be back in form by scoring 48 runs from 36 balls with 5 fours. Anuj Rawat's story is quite similar to Rishabh Pant . An attacking opener and wicket keeper , this is his first season in which he has played in every match as an opener .
Mumbai Indians best Bowlers: Jaydev Unadkat and Dewald Brevis took 1 wicket each.
Royal Challengers Bangalore Fall of Wickets: 1 - 50 (Faf du Plessis, 8.1 ov) , 2 - 130 (Anuj Rawat, 16.5 ov) , 3 - 144 (Virat Kohli, 18.1 ov)
Post Match Awards
Man of the Match: Anuj Rawat 66 off 47
Game Changer of the Match: Suryakumar Yadav (MI)
Punch striker of the Match Award: Suryakumar Yadav (MI) 68 off 37 deliveries with a strike rate of 183.78
Power play of the Match: Rohit Sharma (MI) 26 of 14 in the Powerplay
Fastest Delivery of the Match: Mohammed Siraj (SRH) clocked the fastest delivery of 145.5km/hr
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RCB playing to its full potential!