MI Vs RCB, IPL 2024: Mumbai Indians Beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru By Seven Wickets - As It Happened

Here are the highlights of match 25 of Indian Premier League 2024, to be played between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The exciting contest ended in the home team's favour but RCB also starred with bat when they came to bat first in a houseful stadium. Faf du Plessis, Rajat Patidar and Dinesh Karthik made half-centuries and Jasprit Bumrah claimed a fifer in a match where the ball was in the air for the most part. Mumbai Indians chased down the 197-run target with seven wickets and 27 balls to spare. Catch the highlights of the MI Vs RCB match in the IPL 2024, here. (Scorecard | Streaming)

The two teams have locked horns 32 times, of which Mumbai Indians have won 18. Royal Challengers Bengaluru (earlier known as Royal Challengers Bangalore) have emerged victorious on 14 occasions.

Mumbai Indians have won the toss and elected to bowl first. MI have replaced Piyush Chawla with Shreyas Gopal in their playing XI, while Will Jacks will make his debut for Royal Challengers Bengaluru. He replaces hard-hitting all-rounder Cameron Green.

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan (wk), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Mohammad Nabi, Shreyas Gopal, Jasprit Bumrah, Gerald Coetzee, Akash Madhwal.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Mahipal Lomror, Reece Topley, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep.

The action begins with RCB's designated openers Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli on strike. Mohammad Nabi has the ball in hand for MI. Kohli gets off the mark straight away, and Faf sets the tone with a flowing drive-through extra cover for a boundary off the last ball. The visitors are away, with seven runs off the first over.

MI's pace spearhead does the damage early, yet again. Jasprit Bumrah strikes in the third over of the RCB innings, and it is the big fish - Virat Kohli. The length ball beats Kohli's attempted swipe and Ishan Kishan takes a superb diving catch behind the stumps to rattle the visitors early. Kohli has gone for 3 off 9 balls.

RCB - 18/1 (3)

MI's engineer-turned-pacer Akash Madhwal strikes. He dislodges debutant Will Jacks with a length ball that appears to be in the slot. But Jacks ends up hitting it straight to mid-on and has to walk back after scoring 8 runs off six balls. Meanwhile, Faf continues the rampage from the other end. The RCB skipper is batting at 18 off nine balls and holds the key to his team's fortunes in this game.

RCB - 35/2 (5)

Romario Shepherd came to bowl the eighth over of the match and the set batters Faf du Plessis and Rajat Patidar collected 13 runs from that including two boundaries on the third and last deliveries respectively.

RCB - 67/2 (8)

Jasprit Bumrah came to bowl his second over in the 11th over of the innings and conceded just four singles in front of the set batters Rajat Patidar and Faf du Plessis.

RCB - 93/2 (11)

Glenn Maxwell came to the ground after Rajat Patidar was caught behind on Gerald Coetzee's delivery. He played four balls and went back without scoring a single run after he was caught in front of the wicket on Shreyas Gopal's delivery.

RCB - 111/4 (13)

Dinesh Karthik smashed Akash Madhwal for four boundaries between the third man and above the keeper's head. DK played four reverse scoops and all went for fours expect for the third delivery. RCB are in a fine position.

RCB - 149/4 (16)

Jasprit Bumrah came to bowl his final over in the 19th over and first dismissed Saurav Chauhan and then Vijaykumar Vyshak on back-to-back deliveries. He also completed his fifer with Vyshak's wicket. DK finished the over with a six.

RCB - 177/8 (19)

Dinesh Karthik smashed two sixes and a four to complete his half-century in the final over. Royal Challengers Bengaluru have set a 197-run target for Mumbai Indians.

RCB - 196/8 (20)

Brief Score: RCB - 196/8 (20)

Faf du Plessis - 61 (40), Dinesh Karthik - 53 (23) | Jasprit Bumrah: (4-0-21-5)

Reece Topley came to bowl the first over for Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Ishan Kishan along with Rohit Sharma played him carefully to give a steady start. Just two runs from the first over.

MI - 2/0 (1)

Mohammed Siraj came to bowl his second over and Ishan Kishan smashed him for two sixes and one four. Rohit Sharma faced the second-last delivery and hit another six over mid-wicket.

MI - 55/0 (5)

Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan are toying with RCB bowlers. Vijaykumar Vyshak came to bowl the seventh over and conceded 12 runs from that over. Will Jacks was introduced in the next and he gave just eight runs.

MI - 92/0 (8)

Akash Deep came to bowl the 11th over and Suryakumar Yadav slammed three sixes and a four to collect 24 runs from the over.

MI - 135/1 (11)

Rohit Sharma smashed Will Jacks for a boundary on the first delivery of the 12th over and tried to repeat the same on the next but Reece Topley grabbed a brilliant catch with one hand to send him off.

MI - 151/2 (12)

Vijaykumar Vyshak got rid of Suryakumar Yadav as Mahipal Lomror took a fine catch at the boundary. SKY has done his job and Tilak Varma has come to the crease.

MI - 181/3 (14)

Akash Deep came to bowl the 16th over and Tilak Varma started with a boundary then gave a single to Hardik. He smashed a six over covers area to win the game by seven wickets. Mumbai Indians have chased down a big target with 27 balls to spare.

MI - 199/3 (15.3)

It's a tough pill to swallow - combination of two things, very wet (the conditions with dew), I need to somehow win some tosses, secondly, they played really well, put the pressure on us and we made a lot of mistakes (especially during the powerplay). We knew dew would be a factor, we might have needed to make 250+, but they made 196 look very less. You know when there's dew coming, you'll have to bat big, the ball was very wet, it was changed a few times and the bowlers struggled. We also lost a few moments and were going well when myself and Patidar were going, but they did come back well. Everytime you see him with the ball in his hand (on Jasprit Bumrah), you think you'll have to put him under pressure. But he has so many skills, bowls well under pressure, he bowls with the same action and has a lot of variations. I think he has become even better under the guidance of Lasith Malinga. We will have to find ways with the bat, get those big scores, we know our bowling is not our strongest suit, but we'll have to find ways to manage it, we'll have to be creative, go hard with the bat and make most of the first 4-5 overs with the bat.

Always good to win. The way we have won - it's quite impressive. Impact player has given the opportunity to use an extra bowler if we require. It gives me a cushion as well. The way Ro and Kishan batted, giving the platform, it was important for us to finish it early. We didn't speak about it. That's the beauty of this team, players know what to do. Blessed to have Bumrah in my side. He does it over and over again. He practices a lot. The amount of experience and confidence he has is tremendous. I did tell him when he scored the fifty that welcome back. I've been opposition captain as well against him, it's tough to put field for him. Whatever the situation requires - last game I had to take some time, and this game's scenario was different.

I'm very happy with the outcome. But I will not say I had always thought of taking a five-for. Wicket was sticking in the first 10 overs. One of those days where things went in my favour and catches went to hand. In this format, it's anyway very harsh on the bowlers so you need to have different skills. Can't be a one-trick pony. Everyone is doing research and data. Have trained to have different skills. Bowling is tough because you will have to take a beating, you will have to have bad days to learn from it. Whenever I've had bad days, I've watched videos the next day to see what didn't work and why it didn't work. You bowl to batters in the nets who hit big sixes and find out how you react to pressure. And when you're in the middle facing the same pressure, you'll have answers. I do my research and see where the batter is strong. You don't need to use all the tricks in one day. There's no ego in this format. Even if you can bowl 145kph, if the wicket demands slower balls then you'll have to bowl slower balls.

Back-to-back wins for Mumbai Indians as they defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru by seven wickets in a classic chase at Wankhede Stadium. We will be taking your leave now. That's all from our side. Goodnight!