Mumbai Indians decimate Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2024: Stats
Mumbai Indians earned a solid seven-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru in match number 25 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday. RCB posted 196/8 in 20 overs. Faf du Plessis, Rajat Patidar and Dinesh Karthik slammed their fifties. Jasprit Bumrah took a fifer for MI. In response, MI (199/3) won the match in 15.3 overs.
MI earn their second win; RCB struggle
After suffering three successive defeats, MI have won two consecutive matches (also versus DC). MI are seventh in the points table, amassing four points (NRR: -0.073). The RCB are placed ninth, suffering their fifth defeat in six matches (NRR: -1.124).
Here's how the match panned out
RCB lost two quick wickets before du Plessis and Patidar added 82 runs. MI picked up key wickets with Bumrah leading the show. Karthik's finesse helped RCB get to 196. In response, MI were off to a flier. Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma added 101 runs. Suryakumar Yadav then smashed a 17-ball fifty (52 from 19). Tilak Varma and Hardik Pandya finished things off.
Jasprit Bumrah dismisses Virat Kohli for fifth time in IPL
Bumrah accounted for Virat Kohli's dismissal in the third over of the RCB innings. Kohli managed just three runs from nine balls. As per ESPNcricinfo, in 95 balls, Kohli has scored 140 runs against Bumrah at an average of 28 (SR: 147.36). Bumrah has now dismissed the in-form Kohli five times across 16 IPL innings. Kohli has faced a staggering 36 dot balls.
Bumrah claims his second IPL fifer, joins a unique club
Playing his 125th match, Bumrah (5/21) raced to 155 IPL scalps at 22.56. The MI pacer owns two five-wicket hauls and two four-fers in the cash-rich league. Bumrah has now joined the likes of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat and James Faulkner with two five-wicket hauls in the IPL. Bumrah is the first MI bowler with multiple fifers.
Bumrah scripts these records versus RCB
Bumrah is now the leading wicket-taker versus RCB in the IPL. The right-arm pacer owns 29 wickets from 19 matches at 19.03. He surpassed Sandeep Sharma and Sunil Narine (26 wickets each). Notably, Bumrah is the first bowler to claim a fifer versus the RCB. The previous best performance was 4/10 by Ashish Nehra for CSK in Bengaluru in 2015.
Faf du Plessis slams his 34th fifty in IPL
Du Plessis hammered four fours and three sixes in his 61-run knock (SR: 152.50). He owns 4,303 IPL runs at 36.46 (SR: 134.34). He registered his 34th fifty. During the knock, du Plessis raced past 150 IPL sixes. Notably, du Plessis owns 1,368 runs for the RCB at 40.23 (50s: 12). Versus MI, he owns 562 runs at 29.57 (50s: 5).
Rajat Patidar slams whirlwind fifty versus MI
Patidar arrived in the middle when RCB were 23/2 after 3.4 overs. He didn't shy away and played well to help the RCB recover. Patidar finished with 50 from 26 balls (SR: 192.31). He smashed three fours and four sixes. Patidar has surpassed 500 runs in the IPL (504) at 33.60. He slammed his third IPL fifty (100s: 1).
Dinesh Karthik smashes his 21st IPL fifty, clocks 150 sixes
Karthik scored 53* from 23 balls. His strike rate was 230.43. His knock was laced with five fours and four sixes. In 248 IPL matches, Karthik owns 4,659 runs at 26.32. He has raced to 21 half-centuries. Notably, the veteran now owns 150 IPL sixes. He also raced to 450 fours. As per ESPNcricinfo, Karthik has scored 428 runs versus MI (50s: 2).
Kishan floors the RCB with a breezy 34-ball 69
Kishan was at his natural best. He brought up his fifty within the powerplay overs. Kishan managed a 34-ball 69 (SR: 202.94). He smacked seven fours and five maximums. Overall, Kishan raced to 2,485 runs in the IPL at 29.58. He slammed his 16th fifty. For the Mumbai Indians, he has scored 2,166 IPL runs at 31.39 (50s: 15).
Rohit entertains with a solid 38
Rohit smashed 38 from 24 balls, hitting three fours and three sixes. The veteran star raced to 6,367 runs in the IPL at 29.61. He owns a whopping 267 sixes. The former Deccan Chargers star has amassed 5,197 IPL runs for MI.
7,000 T20 runs for Suryakumar
Suryakumar surpassed 7,000 T20 runs in T20s, becoming the 8th Indian player to do so. He unlocked this achievement with his 31st run in the match. He hammered five fours and four sixes (SR: 273.68). Suryakumar owns 7,021 runs from 272 T20 matches at an average of 35.45 (SR: 152.53). The tally includes five tons and 47 fifties. Suryakumar has compiled 3,301 IPL runs.
An unwanted record for the visitors
This was the RCB's sixth consecutive defeat against MI at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The Challengers last won in 2015.
