Mumbai: The 20th match of IPL 2025 was played between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Mumbai Wankhede Stadium, where Virat Kohli’s innings of 67 runs and Krunal Pandya’s 4 wickets helped RCB beat MI by 12 runs in a thrilling match. This is RCB’s third win in 4 matches, now it has come to number 3 in the points table. With this, Mumbai has suffered its fourth defeat in 5 matches, with which it has reached the 8th position in the points table.
Tilak Verma played a half-century innings
In this match, after losing the toss and batting first, Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 221 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. Mumbai’s team could only score 209 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs and lost the match by 12 runs. While chasing the target of 222 runs for Mumbai, Tilak Verma scored the most runs. He played a half-century innings of 52 runs with 4 fours and 4 sixes in 29 balls.
Krunal Pandya took 4 wickets
Apart from Tilak, captain Hardik Pandya played an innings of 42 runs in 15 balls. During this, he hit 3 fours and 4 sixes. Suryakumar Yadav contributed 28 and Will Jacks contributed 22 runs. Apart from this, no other batsman could even touch the figure of 20 runs. For RCB, Krunal Pandya took 4 wickets for 45 runs in 4 overs. He took 3 wickets in a single over i.e. in the last (20th) over of the innings. Apart from him, Josh Hazlewood and Yash Dayal took 2-2 wickets, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 1 wicket.
Virat and Patidar hit half-centuries
Earlier, for Bangalore, Virat Kohli contributed 67 runs for the team with the help of 8 fours and 2 sixes in 42 balls. Rajat Patidar played an innings of 64 runs with 5 fours and 4 sixes in 32 balls. While Devdutt Padikkal scored 37 runs and Jitesh Sharma played an unbeaten innings of 40 runs. For Mumbai, captain Hardik Pandya and Trent Boult took 2-2 wickets and Vignesh Puthur took 1 wicket. In this match, Rajat Patidar was given the Player of the Match award for his brilliant performance.
