Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets in the 18th match of IPL 2022. With this win, RCB have taken a giant leap in the points table and have moved up to the third position behind Kolkata Knight Riders and Gujarat Titans. Batting first, Mumbai had set a target of 152 runs in front of RCB on the basis of Suryakumar Yadav’s unbeaten 68. RCB achieved this score on the basis of Anuj Rawat’s 66 and Virat Kohli’s 48 with 9 balls to spare.
Chasing this target met by Mumbai, RCB had a solid start. Captain Faf du Plessis (16) and Anuj Rawat shared a 50-run partnership for the first wicket. After this, Virat Kohli, who came to bat, played an innings of 48 runs in 36 balls, adding 80 runs for the second wicket with Anuj Rawat. Anuj Rawad was run out by Ramandeep Singh on the 5th ball of the 17th over and showed the way to the pavilion. At the same time, Virat Kohli became the first victim of Brevis on the first ball of the 19th over.
The decision to give Kohli out LBW was controversial as Kohli believed the ball to have hit his bat but the third umpire found that the ball hit the bat and pad simultaneously, so he decided to go with the on-field umpire’s decision. . After the dismissal of Kohli, Maxwell gave the team victory by hitting two consecutive fours in two balls. Maxwell 8 and Dinesh Karthik remained unbeaten on 7 runs.
Talking about Mumbai’s innings, Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan gave a quick start by scoring 26-26 runs. Mumbai got the first blow in the form of Rohit Sharma on the score of 50. But within the next 12 runs, Mumbai lost 4 more wickets. After the fall of the first wicket on 50, Mumbai’s score was 62 runs for the loss of 6 wickets. Mumbai got its 6th blow in the form of Ramandeep Singh. Then it seemed that Mumbai would be reduced to 120 runs, but Suryakumar Yadav had something else approved. This player played an innings of 68 runs and took the team to the score of 151. Suryakumar Yadav hit 5 fours and 6 skyscraper sixes in this innings. Harshal Patel and Wanindu Hasaranga took 2 wickets each for RCB.