IPL 2019: Mumbai Indians Knocks Down Royal Challengers Bangalore, Twitter Reacts
Apr 15, 2019 at 11:47 PM
Yet another fruitful result for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League 2019. They completely outsmarted Royal Challengers Bangalore in the home game with their brilliant display of cricketing skills. It was a perfect display of cricketing skills from Mumbai Indians, which did the trick for Mumbai.
Initially, it was Rohit Sharma, who won the toss, elected to field first, as there is rich history for chasing teams in Wankhede Stadium. Meanwhile, the flamboyant striker of the ball Virat Kohli walked back for a cheap score when Jason Behrendorff bowled a peach of the delivery in the third over of the game.
Once again, Parthiv Patel started his innings in a style by whacking those deliveries to the fence with ease. He smashed 4 boundaries and one six in his 28-run knock before being dismissed to Hardik Pandya.
In between, AB de Villiers played a brilliant inning for the team. Unlike his quick starts, he played with an intent and a bit like run-a-ball knock to settle in the innings/. After scoring 31 runs off 30 balls, he took on Lasith Malinga to whack a massive six while Moeen Ali smashed it brilliantly for the team.
Ali looked in an ominous form, especially, against spinners. His quick knock helped Royal Challengers Bangalore to get 119 runs in the 15 overs before taking the second strategic timeout. In the very next over, Moeen Ali took on Jason to smash 17 runs off the over.
In the end, all they manage was 171 runs on the board. It could have been even more if Kieron Pollard didn’t hit the bull-eye when AB de Villiers was on a song. In reply to the chase, all the batsmen delivered goods when it mattered the most.
Here are a few tweets:
Someone needs to remind Hardik Pandya he's selected in 15 member squad, playing XI is still going to be decided by Virat Kohli. 🙃 #MIvRCB #RCBvMI
— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja) April 15, 2019
Top knock by Ishan. 9 ball 21 will neither inflate his averages nor will it be remembered after a couple of games. But made an invaluable contribution tonight. Excellent. #MIvRCB
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) April 15, 2019
RCB are at least 50 runs short considering the fact that Lord Umesh Yadav is playing today. #MIvRCB #RCBvMI
— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja) April 15, 2019
Nath’s refusfal to run a second run and sacrifice himself for de Villiers has potentially cost RCB 10-15 runs there. de Villiers has a remarkable H2H record v Malinga & had five balls to attack. Poor game management from Nath. That could be decisive in two hours. #IPL #MIvRCB
— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) April 15, 2019
Virat Kohli was prepared for Siraj and Umesh Yadav, Pawan Negi came out of syllabus. #MIvRCB #RCBvMI
— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja) April 15, 2019
Hardik has been sensational at the end of the innings this season. In overs 18, 19 & 20 he has scored 125 runs off 49 balls & has been out once. That is a run rate of 15.30 RPO – +5.98 RPO above expectation for that stage of the innings. @RCBTweets @mipaltan #IPL #MIvRCB
— The CricViz Analyst (@cricvizanalyst) April 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/Maahii_way/status/1117852773301870592
@imVkohli if this kind of captaincy continues than world Cup will be just a dream.
Very poor captaincy from VK. @BCCI #MIvRCB— Prakash Bhorgonde (@bhorgonde) April 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/cricadil12/status/1117852767635161088
https://twitter.com/SalmansSoldier/status/1117852766980931584
Hey Virat Kohli, I am a big fan of your game but I have to tell this. Please try to make some own & bold decisions in the ground instead of depending upon others. #WorldCup is coming real fast, and entire nation has kept hope on you. #MIvRCB
— Boosa (@IamBoosa) April 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/BBera84/status/1117852742305796096
Hardik finishes it with a flourish. RCB left to rue giving him a life when he had just come in to bat. Overall, poor bowling apart from Moeen and Chahal
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 15, 2019
Mumbai Indians have now won three of their last four matches and are third in the league. They are in this position despite not playing anywhere near their best cricket – their bowling remains inconsistent & their middle order very fragile. #IPL #MIvRCB
— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) April 15, 2019
We have a SAVIOUR and we call him HARDIK PANDYA 💙 #MIvRCB
— Akshata (@itsAksh45) April 15, 2019
Siraj is the worst bowler and Virat is the worst captain.#MIvRCB
— Sid361 (@shubhsaraf361) April 15, 2019
https://twitter.com/RealKartikk/status/1117852921561882625
Kudos to @ishankishan51 . Mandli aapki abhari rahegi #MIvRCB
— Subham Padhi (@subham_padhi_) April 15, 2019
What a fabulous finish from Hardik Pandya. Calm head, clean hitting.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) April 15, 2019
Virat, Second last over from Pawan negi was always a bad idea. Ask Dhoni if you don't believe.
Pawan Negi was the man who made Pandya the hero during his initial days😂#MIvRCB #mi #CricketMeriJaan— CHINMAY 🇮🇳 (@beardedCVS) April 15, 2019
RCB takes their tagline 'Play Bold' damn seriously like who else will dare to play Umesh Yadav and Siraj in the same line-up!😂
P.S- Negi in 19th over against Pandya#MIvRCB #RCBvMI— Shubham Raghuwanshi (@boynEXttdooor) April 15, 2019