Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) tasted one other defeat once they went down by six wickets towards Mumbai Indians (MI) on Tuesday night time at Wankhede stadium. The defeat has additional dented RCB’s likelihood to qualify for the playoffs as they now have 6 losses from 11 video games. With simply 3 matches left within the league stage of the competitors, strain will increase on RCB. They now should win all matches within the enterprise finish of the event to make sure they qualify for the playoffs.Â
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Mumbai Indians outplay RCB
Rohit Sharma had one other poor outing as a batter, scoring simply 7 off 8 balls. But his teammates ensured MI closed the sport with greater than three overs remaining within the contest. Opting to bowl first, MI restricted RCB to 199 for six in 20 overs. This appeared like a superb bowling effort in view of the high-scoring video games the IPL has seen all due to the Impact Player impact. Faf du Plessis smashed 65 off 41 balls whereas Glenn Maxwell performed a blinder of 68 off 33 deliveries. Dinesh Karthik (30 off 18) offered the ending touches to nearly take the whole to 100.Â
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MI began off the chase effectively. Rohit fell cheaply however the wicket got here solely after Ishan Kishan had taken them previous ffity runs inside 5 overs. From there, Suryakumar Yadav took over and hit 83 off simply 35 balls. Nehal Wadhera performed an excellent knock of unbeaten 52 runs off 34 balls and with Cameron Green took MI previous the the end mark
MI rise to quantity 3 in standings
With the six-wicket win over RCB, MI have now jumped to the third spot within the standings. They are nonetheless not very sure to qualify for the plyoffs because the desk is superbly congested. The center a part of the desk, particularly, has 4 groups with 10 factors. These groups will give it their all to qualify for a spot. To put issues into perspective, even after 54 matches into the league, no workforce is out of the reckoning for a berth within the playoffs. Talking about RCB, they’ve lots to make amends for as they slip to seventh spot within the desk.Â
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Suryakumar Yadav risesÂ
Suryakumar Yadav had an atypical begin to the season, however the T20 specialist has proven immense enchancment and is again in type. His sensible 83 helped him enter the highest 10 of Orange cap checklist. He now has 376 runs from 11 video games an sita at ninth spot within the checklist after 54 matches in IPL 2023.
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Orange Cap and Purple Cap leaders:
Faf du Plessis stays on the high of the Orange Cap checklist with 576 runs from 11 video games whereas Mohammed Shami nonetheless holds the Purple cap with 19 wickets from 11 matches. The battle for the respective caps will intensify now because the league is approaching its finish.