IPL 2025: Match 20 - MI vs RCB
- Trent Boult cleaned up Phil Salt on the second ball of the game in Wankhede
- Virat Kohli showed excellent intent through the PowerPlay, taking on even Jasprit Bumrah and punishing the likes of Deepak Chahar, Boult and Will Jacks
- Devdutt Padikkal swung for the fences in a fiery cameo worth 37 runs off just 22 deliveries
- Virat Kohli continued to show fabulous intent, getting to a 29-ball fifty. This was the first time he scored a fifty under 30 balls while batting first in a full-20 over contest in IPL.
- Rajat Patidar took the onus upon himself to play a fabulous innings of 64 from 32 balls
- Jitesh and Rajat added 69 runs off 27 balls as RCB flew at the death
- Jitesh was incredible, smashing 40* off 19 as RCB finished with 221/5 in 20 overs
- Yash Dayal extended Rohit Sharma's woeful run in IPL 2025 by cleaning him up in the second over
- Josh Hazlewood dismissed Ryan Rickelton and bowled fabulous over to Suryakumar Yadav to close out a successful PowerPlay for RCB as MI got 54/2 in 6 overs.
- Suryakumar Yadav struggled in the middle-overs as Suyash Sharma bowled well to his fields and the skewed square dimensions of the venue. RCB put in a middle-overs squeeze to march ahead in the game...
- Hardik Pandya arrived swinging his willow ferociously as he smashed 22 off an over from Hazlewood
- Tilak Varma came fresh from being retired out in the previous fixture and tonked away in a fabulous partnership with his captain
- The game swayed violently again as Hardik and Tilak smashed 17, 22 and 19 in the 13th, 14th and 15th over to leave MI to get 65 from 30
- Hazlewood (and Bhuvneshwar) were exceptionally accurate at the death to add one more twist to thrilling fixture - as they dismissed the two set batters
- Kurunal Pandya successfully defended 19 of the final over to earn RCB two more vital points on the road