Mumbai Indians beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 19 runs
27th Match of IPL was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) & Mumbai Indians (MI) on Tuesday at Mumbai. Bangalore won the toss and elected Mumbai to bat. Mumbai Indians bat really well though they lost early wickets but run rate was really impressive. MI posted a huge total of 187/5 runs in 20 overs for RCB to chase. Their top scorers are RG Sharma (59 off 35) & KA Pollard (43 off 31). RCB in reply started their innings with different shot selection and made opening stand of 53. They lost their first wicket of PA Patel (26 off 19) for 53. Kohli came in to join Gayle after Patel departs . Kohli & Gayle played some awesome shots enjoyed by spectators and cheer leaders. Harbhajan came in for attack & clean bowled Chris Gayle (38 off 24), earlier the off-spinner also clean bowled PA Patel. Gayle wicket was a hard blow for MI and they started losing wickets gradually. Ab de Villiers couldn't produce many runs with his bat, had a drop catch & a run out chance given by MI but still scored only 9 off 7 balls. Virat Kohli also couldn't take benefit of advantages given to him & was caught out by Corey Anderson in the next over bowled by Suyal. After Kohli departs RCB score was 119-4 in 13.3 overs. At this stage Mumbai's score was 111-4 though RCB was still ahead of MI at this level but the remaining batsmen didn't produce any huge partnerships. Yuvraj departs for 6 off 10 balls, Rossouw was caught by Sharma in Malinga's bowling for 24 off 14 balls to end up the verified batsmen of RCB. Tail enders also couldn't go upto 2 figures and RCB ended up for 166-8 in their respective 20 overs. Hence Mumbai Indians defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore 2nd time in IPL 2014 by 19 runs. Rohit Sharma became Man of the Match for his not out 59 off 35 balls with 168.57 strike rate. There was also a fight during Mumbai Indians batting between Kieron Pollard & Mitchell Starc.
Good to see Mumbai Indians started to win. they lost first five matches in UAE league, it was a good match to watch apart from arguments between two players that turned in to fight which was well handled by umpires.
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