Mumbai Indians’ slide continued down a very slippery slope in IPL 2025 as RCB sent them to their fourth defeat of the season.
The visitors were put in and went after the bowling on a typical Wankhede belter. The first two balls of the match read 4, W but RCB didn’t let that deter them. Virat Kohli (67 off 42) and Devdutt Padikkal (37 off 22) kept the momentum going in the powerplay. Rajat Patidar (64 off 32) got his role down perfectly and kept the charge going. Jitesh Sharma (40* off 19) eventually pushed RCB beyond the record chase mark. MI would have had to pull off their highest successful chase in IPL history.
Josh Hazlewood started with his usual miserliness in the powerplay and the rest of the lineup complemented the start. It looked like RCB had it in the bag very easily, but MI still had punches to pull. Suyash Sharma was relatively economical for this game, but Tilak Varma (56 off 29) and Hardik Pandya (42 off 15) put MI on the brink of victory. Krunal Pandya (4 for 45) took three wickets in the last over to make sure that RCB walked away with a win.
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Here are the most important numbers from the match
5 – Virat Kohli became the fifth player in the world and the first Indian to aggregate 13,000 runs in T20 cricket.
2 – Of the five players to breach the 13,000-run mark in T20s, Virat Kohli is the second fastest to the milestone by innings and the second slowest by balls faced.
2 – Virat Kohli became the second highest run-scorer against MI in IPL history. KL Rahul leads the chart with 950 while Kohli leapfrogged Shikhar Dhawan’s 901.
2 – Virat Kohli has the second most fifty-plus scores in the IPL with 65 such scores. Only David Warner (66) has more.
1 – For the first time in his IPL career, Trent Boult conceded more than 50 runs in a single match. Boult had gone 107 bowling innings in the IPL without a bowling “half-century”.
2 – There have now been 28 totals of 200 or more at the Wankhede Stadium in IPL. Only the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru has seen more (30).
2 – Hardik Pandya is now the second highest wicket-taker while playing as captain in the IPL. Pandya took his wickets tally as captain to 32 in this match, going past Anil Kumble’s 30. The record holder Shane Warne (57) is a long way away.
1 – Hardik Pandya became the first Indian, and the 12th player ever, to complete the double of 5,000 runs and 200 wickets in T20s.
7 – Hardik Pandya’s 42(15) and 2/45 are the seventh instance of a captain scoring 40 or more runs in an IPL match while also taking 2 wickets.
1 – Bhuvneshwar Kumar is now the leading wicket-taker among pacers in the IPL. Kumar is also the third highest wicket-taker in the IPL with 184 scalps and going past Dwayne Bravo’s 183.
2015 – The last time RCB beat MI in the IPL at the Wankhede Stadium.
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