Pulled out retired harm by Mumbai Indians of their earlier match, Tilak Varma hammered a half-century off 26 balls and raised 89 runs for the fifth wicket with Hardik Pandya, however their effort went in useless as Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated the five-time winners by 12 runs in Match 21 of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 right here on Monday. Varma hammered an excellent 56 off 29 balls and skipper Hardik Pandya blasted 42 off 15 to propel Mumbai Indians from needing 132 off 56 balls to 41 off 18, Nevertheless, RCB ended their sensational fightback as Bhuvneshwar Kumar despatched again Varma, and Josh Hazlewood obtained Hardik within the dying overs.
From Mumbai needing 28 runs off 12 balls, they succumbed as Krunal Pandya claimed three wickets within the ultimate over, together with the wickets of Mitchell Santner, who struck a six off Hazlewood, and Deepak Chahar off successive balls.
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Although Boult survived the hat-trick supply, a large, and Naman Dhir struck a 4, to make it 12 wanted off two balls to take it to a brilliant over, two off successive balls, Krunal obtained Naman Dhir on the fifth ball to seal a memorable victory over MI in a thriller.
Krunal Pandya ended with 4-45 whereas Yash Dayal (2-46) and Hazlewood (2-37) got here good with the ball to limit Mumbai Indians to 209/9 after quickfire half-centuries by Virat Kohli (67) and Rajat Patidar (64) helped RCB submit an enormous 221/5 to register their first win on the Wankhede Stadium since 2015 and finish a 10-year jinx.
After being hammered round by the RCB batters, Mumbai Indians landed in bother with Rohit Sharma (17 off 9) and Ryan Rickelton (17 off 10) falling to Dayal and Hazlewood. Will Jacks obtained a begin and made 22 from 18 balls, and Suryakumar Yadav (28 off 26 balls) struggled to attain in opposition to Krunal and Suyash Sharma, and that’s the place Mumbai misplaced the match.
Although Tilak Varma, who struggled to hit boundaries in opposition to Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) and had retired out, and Hardik struck some sensible photographs as they put Mumbai again on rails, solely to see issues unravel because of the brilliance of Krunal Pandya.
Requested to bat first, Royal Challengers Bengaluru made a brisk begin regardless of dropping Phil Salt (4) to Trent Boult on the second ball of the match.
Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli blasted 91 runs for the second wicket, hitting boundaries and sixes off Bout, Deepak Chahar, Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Vignesh Puthur. Padikkal blasted back-to-back sixes by mid-on and mid-wicket in Chahar’s second over, adopted it up with a 4. By the top of the power-play, RCH had reached 73.1 in six overs.
Padikkal departed for 37 off 22 balls, hitting eight boundaries and two sixes, however Virat Kohli struck eight fours and two sixes — one off Bumrah and one off Puthur, this one hit on one knee, bringing in his 29-ball fifty.
Pandya ended his India teammate’s hopes of reaching his first century of the season, Naman Dhir choosing up a straightforward catch at deep mid-wicket as Kohli miscued a back-of-length ball vast outdoors off, attempting to fabricate a boundary behind sq. on the leg facet. Kohli scored 67 off 42, his second half-century of the season. Liam Livingstone fell for a two-ball duck to Pandya, however Patidar and Jitesh Sharma ensured RCB reached a giant complete.
Patidar struck some excellent photographs in a show of sheer power-hitting. He blazed to his fifty off 25 balls, and together with Jitesh Sharma added 69 runs for the fifth wicket.
Patidar and Sharma hammered Pandya for 23 runs within the seventeenth over as the previous blasted two sixes and a 4 off successive balls, whereas the latter helped himself to a 4. They manhandled Boult for 15 runs within the nineteenth over earlier than the New Zealand pacer obtained Patidar for 64, caught by keeper Ryan Rickelton off an tried scoop.
Jitesh Sharma struck a few hefty blows as he remained unbeaten on 40 off 19 balls, hitting Bumrah for a giant six within the penultimate supply as RCB posted a giant complete.
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