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In the 18th match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB💛) thrashed Mumbai Indians (MI) by seven wicke🐲ts at Pune’s Maharashtra Cricket Asso♓ciation on Saturday
Chasing 152, RCB got off to a decent start with openers Anuj Rawat and Faf du Plessis adding 50 runs in eight overs. In the very next over, Jaydev Unadkat broke the partnership by dismissing captain Du 🍰Pl🔯essis (16).
Then, Rawat and Virat Kohli took charge and compl💫etely owned the show by forming a giant 80 runs partnership for the second wicket to take the game away from Mumbai. Rawat smashed a sensation💝al half-century and was looking well set to take the team home before he met an unfortunate run-out in the 17th over.
The left-handed batter scored 66 off 47 deliveries with the help of eight boundaries, including 6 sixes. Similarly, Kohli scored a decent knock of 48 from 36 balls before Dewald Brevis got rid of the former RCB skipper in the penultimate over. Glenn Maxwell then hit ba🧸ck-to-back boundaries to finish the proceedings🍌.
Earlier, Suryakumar Yadav, with a sensational unbeaten knock, guided Mumbai to a respectable total after M⛎I 🔜lost six wickets for just 79 in 13.2 overs.
Suryakumar starred with the willow against all the odds and stayed undefeated at 68 runs from 37 deliveries with the help of 11 boundaries, incꩲluding 6 humungous sixes.
Openers Ishan Kishan (26) and Rohit Sharma (26) chipped in with valuable contributions at the top as MI𒁃 reached 151/6 in their allotted 20 overs.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
MI and CSK this IPL so far 😄
Cc: 😉— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
RCB play🥀ing to its full potential! Bowling ✅ Batting🍬 ✅
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
8-team tournament already?
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Two great teams atღ the today. Neith♕er really competed today. Had their moments at best, but were never likely to win. 0-4 now for both. Nobody saw that coming
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha)
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Teams losing their first fo🐼ur matches of an💜 IPL season:
MI – 2008, 2014, 2015, 2022
Dec – 2012
DC – 2013
RCB – 2019
CSK – 2022— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats)
RCB defeated MI by seven wickets.
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
Suryaaaaaaaaaaaa ala re.. bhut Khoob
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
4 straight defeats for b💟oth Chennai💝 Super Kings and Mumbai Indians in
— Subhayan Chakraborty (@CricSubhayan)
RCB beat KKR by 3 wickets
RCB beat RR by 4 wickets
RCB beat MI by 7 wickets3rd consecutive win for Royal Challengers Bangalore in – the dream run continues.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
RCB win by 7 wickets with 9 balls to spare with con♌secutive fours from Maxwell
That's 4 losses in a row now for Mumbai
— ThePoppingCrease (@PoppingCreaseSA)
