Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 54th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Faf managed a smile when he was quizzed after?the game. That smile was all about being hapless. His bowlers haven't come to the party this season. A total of 200 wasn't that big but the bowlers just couldn't execute?the slower balls. MI are a team on the way up and they have managed to get to 12 points. This is their third?successful chase of 200 or more in this season. The first team to do so. RCB have slipped a little in the pack. But this roller coaster at the table will continue. We will be there to make it smooth for you! This is our team of Nikhil JD, Abhinand Raghavendran, Kumar Abhisekh Das and Praveen bidding you a temporary bye bye.?

Suryakumar Yadav, Player of the Match: Much needed from team's point of view. I am very happy to win a home game like this. I mean they come up with a plan. They tried to make me hit to the bigger part. Take the pace off and bowl slow. I said Nehal let's hit it hard and hit it into the gaps and run hard. Your practice has to be the same what you intend to do in matches. I know where my runs are. We have open net sessions. I know my game. I don't do anything different.

Rohit Sharma: It is a good pitch. If you apply yourselves, you can get runs. Those four guys played well. Akash was with us last year as well. We saw the skillset. We wanted to give him a role. He is quite confident. He leads his Uttarakhand team. He knows what field he needs. We restricted them to less than 200. Was a great effort, It could have been 220 or more. I have no idea what a safe score is. The last four games we have seen excess of 200 has been scored. Most of the teams are taking risks and it is coming off. The batters are taking risks and 200 plus scores are being chased. The mindset of the batters is to do something special for the team and it is coming off as well.

Most successful 200+ chases in an IPL season
3 MI in 2023 *
2 PBKS in 2014
2 CSK in 2018

Winning with most balls to spare in a 200+ chases
21 balls: 200 by MI vs RCB Mumbai WS 2023
15 balls: 208 by DC vs GL Delhi 2017
10 balls: 201 by PBKS vs KKR Kolkata 2010

Nehal Wadhera: It was fun batting up the order, earlier I was batting down. I got an opportunity to bat up and I got back-to-back fifties. I am happy with my fifty but I am more happy that my team won and I hope we continue to do so. I have the confidence within me that if I keep on batting till the end, I can finish the game for the team. Surya bhai is a top-class player and I also try to copy some of his shots but I cannot. While he was batting I was talking to him and he was saying 'keep playing, keep playing' and he was giving me confidence. He told me, 'If both of us bat till the 15th-16th over, we can finish the game even early.' And that's what we did. The previous game which I played against CSK, I played a scoop. Earlier I didn't play, after seeing Surya bhai bat, I also learned from him and I am very happy.

Faf du Plessis: I think we were at least 20 runs short, in context of the wicket. They are a strong chasing team and they bat deep. We didn't capitalise in the last five overs, disappointed due to the lack of runs in those five overs. You need to say 200 is a good score (to motivate the players), needed to make sure you take the pace off. They capitalized the first 6 overs with the pace on. He (SKY) is one of the best, when he gets going, it's difficult to shut him down. Siraj has been fantastic in the first half of IPL. He got away with it for a really long time, but the guys are going to come out and play positively. Towards the back end of the tournament when the wickets get slower, you need to make sure you are around 60 runs in the first 6 overs.

23:12 Local Time, 17:42 GMT, 23:12 IST: MI have thrashed RCB. More adjectives will follow when there is a post-mortem of this game. RCB just never arrived with the ball. They were found wanting. Kishan got MI off to a flier and set the tone. Hasaranga applied the brakes and picked up Kishan and Rohit in the same over. Nehal and SKY joined hands post that. Then there was clinical decimation. Everyone went to the cleaners. No one was spared. Nehal started off aggressively. But once SKY started, everyone took a back seat and just soaked in some amazing display of batting. RCB bowlers did help MI a little as well with their poor wayward bowling. Earlier, Faf and Maxi had played fine knocks to help put RCB 199 on the board. And has been the case in this tourney, RCB failed to put the finishing touches while batting. They could have scored 20 more but lost wickets at regular intervals in the last 7 overs. MI have jumped to number 3 in the table. RCB have slipped to 7. Their NRR hasn't been helped by this game as well. MI improve their own NRR but it is still in the negative. That won't be factor at all if they keep playing like this.

Harshal Patel to Nehal Wadhera, SIX, MI win. Nehal gets a fifty! If you don't know the meaning of shellacking. This chase defines it. That was a wide delivery, outside off, Nehal Wadhera throws his willow at it and slams it over cover. The southpaw now has back-to-back fifties and MI leapfrog to number 3 in the table...

Harshal Patel to Nehal Wadhera, no run, drops it short, angles the ball across, Nehal Wadhera looks to pull and misses. One more shot and it should be over

Harshal Patel to Green, 1 run, drives the ball down to long-on and gets a single

Harshal Patel [3.0-0-34-0] is back into the attack

Vijaykumar Vyshak to Green, 1 run, drills the drive to a delivery wide outside off and gets it down to deep cover for a single

Cameron Green, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Vijaykumar Vyshak to Tim David, out Caught by Maxwell!! Checks his drive and finds the man at long-off. Was a slower delivery outside off and Tim David checked the lofted hit. That took out all the power and Maxi ran in to take it. Easy take for him. RCB delay the inevitable. Vijaykumar Vyshak is on a hat-trick. That was a well disguised slower delivery and Tim David was way too early into the shot. Tim David c Maxwell b Vijaykumar Vyshak 0(1)

Vijaykumar Vyshak to Tim David, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Tim David, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Time-out. How do I define this break? Three letters should be enough. SKY. Is there a more complete T20 batter than him? On his day he can bring you down alone. He has hurt RCB massively today. A target of 200 has been reduced to a dawdle now.

Highest scores for Surya in IPL
83(35) vs RCB 2023
82(40) vs SRH 2021
79*(43) vs RCB 2020
79*(47) vs RR 2020

Vijaykumar Vyshak to Suryakumar Yadav, out Caught by Kedar Jadhav!! Ouch! That's the end as far as some wholesome entertainment was concerned. SKY goes. MI need 8 more only. Was a slower length delivery, Suryakumar Yadav wanted to drag the pull away but failed to time. The ball went really upwards and Jadhav under it was calm. He took it easily. He would wanted to finish it. But he got them to the doorsteps. Another hypnotizing knock from SKY ends. Suryakumar Yadav c Kedar Jadhav b Vijaykumar Vyshak 83(35) [4s-7 6s-6]