Mumbai Indians blown away by Virat and Duplessis storm, Royal Challengers Bangalore's big win
Captain Duplessis scored an inning of 73 runs in 43 balls with the help of five fours and 6 sixes. At the same time, Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 82 off 49 balls with the help of 6 fours and five sixes.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has started the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 with a bang on the basis of stormy half-century innings of Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis. After about 1400 days, Bangalore, playing its first match at its home in Bengaluru, defeated the most successful IPL team Mumbai Indians (MI) by 8 wickets.
The team of Mumbai Indians has faced defeat in the first match of the season for the 11th consecutive year. Mumbai Indians once again failed to break the losing streak in the first match of IPL. Since 2013, the Mumbai team has not been able to win its first match of the IPL season. That is, this is Mumbai's 11th consecutive defeat in the opening match of IPL.
Five-time champions Mumbai Indians scored 171 runs for 7 wickets while batting first against the hosts Bangalore at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Chasing the target of 172 runs, Kohli and du Plessis gave a stormy start to Bangalore and added 148 runs in 14.5 overs for the first wicket. Du Plessis was dismissed by Arshad Khan. Captain Duplessis scored an inning of 73 runs in 43 balls with the help of five fours and 6 sixes. Glenn Maxwell scored 12 not out off three balls.
At the same time, Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 82 off 49 balls with the help of 6 fours and five sixes. Dinesh Karthik got out without opening the account. Kohli finished the match by hitting a six in exactly the same way, 12 years ago, MS Dhoni won the World Cup after 28 years by hitting a six.
At one stage, Mumbai lost their four wickets for 48 runs in 8.5 overs, but Tilak shared a 50-run partnership with Wadhela. After this, he got Mumbai out of trouble by adding 48 runs in just 18 balls with Arshad.
