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Mumbai Indians registered a dominant seven-wicket victory by chasing down the massive 196-run total in 15.3 overs against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru. With this win, Mumbai have jumped to the seventh place on the table while RCB is still in the ninth spot with a record of one win and five losses.
After losing the toss, the Royal Challengers were asked to bat first and got to a poor start as Virat Kohli got out cheaply. But Faf du Plessis and Rajat Patidar steadied the ship with an 82-run stand before Dinesh Karthik smashed a brilliant 53 in 23 balls with five fours and four sixes to help post 196 runs. For Mumbai, Jasprit Bumrah was the star as he picked up five wickets while giving away 21 runs.
Then in the second innings, Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma gave Mumbai the perfect start as the pair posted a 101-run stand before Suryakumar Yadav blasted a 17-ball half-century. SKY and then Hardik Pandya continued this batting barrage and helped secure a seven-wicket.
Talking about this defeat, Faf du Plessis said, "It's a tough pill to swallow - combination of two things, very wet (the conditions with dew), I need to somehow win some tosses, secondly, they played really well, put the pressure on us and we made a lot of mistakes (especially during the powerplay). We knew dew would be a factor, we might have needed to make 250+, but they made 196 look very less."
"You know when there's dew coming, you'll have to bat big, the ball was very wet, it was changed a few times and the bowlers struggled. We also lost a few moments and were going well when myself and Patidar were going, but they did come back well."
