While Rising Pune Supergiants have no chance of qualifying for the playoffs, the next two teams that are in the danger of not qualifying are Kings XI Punjab and Royal Challengers Bangalore. As RCB face Mumbai Indians at their home ground, Kohli’s men need to ensure a win in almost every match to qualify for playoffs.

Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bowl as he realizes the weak-link of RCB has been bowling. Kohli brought back Gayle into the team, as Gayle on his day can win the match single-handedly. But the start that RCB got was not ideal as Kohli departed in the 2^nd over and Gayle departed soon too. De Villiers couldn’t stay longer either. Thanks to some brilliant efforts from KL Rahul and Sachin Baby that RCB managed to score 151 in 20 overs.

When Mumbai Indians came into bat, Parthiv Patel got out on the 7^th ball of the inning, exactly when Kohli got out for RCB. After that Rohit and Rayudu steadied innings as the total they were chasing wasn’t big. Superb catching from Stuart Binny and AB de Villiers put the pressure back on MI as the asking rate went up to 11 with 5 overs to go. Intelligent batting from Pollard and Butler ensure Mumbai Indians a successful chase in the end.

Here’s a list of some interesting numbers and stats from this match –

Good run coming to an end – Kohli has been in significant form this T20 season, today was the first time that Kohli was dismissed on a single digit score in his past 18 T20 innings.

Failure continues – After being dropped for few matches, Gayle was brought back into the team but his failure continued as today was his 7^th consecutive single digit score in T20s.

KL Rahul grabbing the opportunity – One player who has grabbed the opportunity this season of IPL is Rahul. He scored his 6^th consecutive 30+ score in this IPL. Before this season, he had just two to his name. He also scored his highest IPL score in this match by scoring 68 runs.

Purple Cap – Mitchel McClenaghan gets back the purple cap as he now has 15 wickets to his name in this IPL.

Another All-rounder in the making – Krunal Pandya gave away just 15 runs in his quota of 4 overs. This is the least number of runs given away by a spinner in IPL in Bangalore. (Note: Spinners who have bowled all 4 overs only considered).

A streak of good batting ends – RCB had scored 170 or more in all their matches in this season of IPL. Their streak of scoring 170 or more came to an end as they scored just 151 in this match against MI.

400 sixes for Pollard – Big-hitting Pollard completed his 400^th six in T20 Cricket. Second to cross this mark after Chris Gayle.