Virat also rocked with Duplessis
Not only captain Faf Duplessis for RCB, batsman Virat Kohli also played an unbeaten inning of 73 runs. Virat completed his 50th half-century in the IPL while batting smoky. Kohli also hit 5 fours and 6 sixes while facing 43 balls in his innings.
Duplessis won the toss and chose to bowl first.
In this match against Mumbai, RCB captain Faf Duplessis won the toss and decided to bowl first. This decision of Duplessis was also proved right by the RCB bowlers but after that he lost his rhythm. During this, where on one hand the Mumbai team kept losing their wickets at frequent intervals, on the other hand Tilak Verma kept the front alone.
Tilak Verma played an unbeaten inning of 84 runs for Mumbai. During this, he faced 46 balls in which he also hit 9 fours and 4 sixes. Apart from this, Nihal Wadhera contributed 21 runs in 13 balls for Mumbai.
RCB won by 8 wickets
In their first match of IPL 2023 against Mumbai, RCB team won by 8 wickets. Batting first in this match, Mumbai had set a target of 172 runs in front of RCB by Tilak Verma’s half-century innings, in response to which the team scored 172 runs losing 2 wickets in 16.2 overs with the bang of Virat Kohli and Faf Duplessis.