RCB Ends 10 Year Draught with thrilling win over MI in a close contested Match. RCB , finally won a match after 2015 at Wankhede stadium . It was collective effort of team to set a score of 221 and then restricts MI at 209 .
RCB Ends 10 Year Draught
Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bowl. RCB put in to bat were very clear in the approach and succeeded in thier plan. Phil Salt had brilliant first ball boundary, but was bowled in the next ball by brilliant bowling from Trent Boult. Kohli and Paddikal added 91 runs partnership in next 8 over. Paddikal was picked by young Puthur at team’s score of 95.
Captain Patidar joined Kohli and both scored 48 runs together when Kohli got out by Pandya. Livingstone did not disturb Scorer and Jitesh Joined Captain and both dealt in boundaries and took the score to 203 by 19th over when Patidar was caught by Rickelton of the bowling of Boult. Last over fetched 9 runs and MI fell short by 12 runs finishing at 209 runs
MI with support of crowd at Wankhede started thier innings and Rohit scored 17 from 9 balls with 2 fours and 1 six to get bowled by Dayal. Second opener Rickelton got out at 38 . Jacks and Surya added 41 to loose Jacks on 79 in 10th over. After that Surya got out in 12th over when the score was 99/4. MI needed 123 runs in remaining 8 overs with an required rate of 15 plus. Tilak and Hardik was on crease and both added 89 runs and took the score to 188 runs in 17.4 overs when Tilak got out.
MI was very much on hunt with 34 to get in 20 balls. Needed 19 runs from last over when Krunal had brilliant last over to pick 3 wickets by just giving 6 runs. RCB ends 10 year draught of winning at Wankhede by 12 runs
Total of 430 runs scored and there were many thrilling performances but the way Patidar led his team and scored 64 runs in 32 balls was picked up as Player of the Match.
| Match No 20 | ||||
| Wankhede Stadium | 07 Apr 2025 | Toss-MI | ||
| RCB | Mumbai Indian | RCB won by 12 Runs | ||
| 221/5(20) | 209/9(20) | |||
| V Kohli-67(42) R Patidar-64(32) Jitesh S- 40*(19) | H Pandya- 2/45(4) T Boult-2/57(4) V Puthur-1/10(1) | T Verma- 56(29) H Pandya- 42(15) SK Yadav – (28(26) | K Pandya – 4/45(4) J Hazelwood- 2/37(4) Y Dayal- 2/46(4) | POTM- Rajat Patidar 64(32) |
RCB ends 10 year draught at Wankhede by winning thier match and consolidated her position at 3rd place on the ranking table after 4 matches. MI also holding on to 8th rank even after loosing . Better than CSK and SRH on run rate.
| INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE-2025 | ||||||||
| Rank | Team | Played | Won | Loss | NR | Points | NRR | Remarks |
| 1 | DC | 3 | 3 | 0 | – | 6 | +1.257 | |
| 2 | GT | 4 | 3 | 1 | – | 6 | +1.031 | |
| 3 | RCB | 4 | 3 | 1 | – | 6 | +1.015 | |
| 4 | PBKS | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | 4 | +0.074 | |
| 5 | KKR | 4 | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | +0.070 | |
| 6 | LSG | 4 | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | -0.048 | |
| 7 | RR | 4 | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | -0.185 | |
| 8 | MI | 5 | 1 | 4 | – | 2 | -0.010 | |
| 9 | CSK | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -0.891 | ||
| 10 | SRH | 5 | 1 | 4 | – | 2 | -1.629 | |
| ORANGE CAP- IPL 2025 | ||||||
| Rank | Player | Team | Runs | SR | HS | Remarks |
| 1 | Nicholas Pooran | LSG | 201 | 218 | 75 | |
| 2 | Surya Kumar Yadav | MI | 199 | 150 | 67 | |
| 3 | Sai Sudarsan | GT | 191 | 150 | 74 | |
| 4 | Michael Marsh | LSG | 184 | 185 | 72 | |
| 5 | Jos Buttler | GT | 166 | 167 | 73* | |
| PURPLE CAP-IPL 2025 | |||||
| Rank | Player | Team | Best | Wicket | Remarks |
| 1 | Noor Ahmed | CSK | 4/18 | 10 | |
| 2 | Hardik Pandya | MI | 5/36 | 10 | |
| 3 | Md Siraj | GT | 4/17 | 9 | |
| 4 | Mitchell Starc | DC | 5/35 | 9 | |
| 5 | Sai Kishore | GT | 3/30 | 8 | |
Nicholas Pooran of LSG with Orange Cap and Noor Ahmad of CSK with purple cap is holding on in the third week of IPL. However Surya is just 2 runs behind and Hardik just 1 wicket behind. Hope this week will have some new contender.