Tonight, Mumbai Indians won their first match of the league and that too with a huge margin of 46 runs beating the star-studded team of Royal Challengers Bangalore.
The three times winners of the tournament hosted the match for Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. Before this match, the team has not won a single match in this tournament but they seemed to be very much in form today and what a game it was.
Before the match started, Virat Kohli, the skipper of Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and chose to bowl first. The MI gave the target of 213 runs to RCB.
The first innings started with the bang, RCB’s ace bowler Umesh Yadav took the first two wickets in the first two balls, dismissing Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan.
Ewin Lewis scored 65 runs in 42 balls with the strike rate of 154, smashing 6 fours and 5 sixes. Krunal Pandya scored 15 runs in 12 balls, including 1 fours and 1 six. Hardik Pandya too was not able to score a great number, he scored 17 runs in 5 balls.
Tonight, the skipper of Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma gave an exceptional performance.He scored 94 runs in 54 balls with the strike rate of 180. He made the ball reach every corner of the ground by hitting thrilling shots, including 10 fours and 5 sixes.
In the second innings, it was the skipper of the team who was in full on agressive mode.He remained unbeaten at the score of 92 runs, which he made in 62 balls. He smashed 7 fours and 4 sixes.
The rest of the team failed to score great numbers at the score card. The star player, AB De Villiers scored only 1 run, Quinton De Kock scored 19 runs, Washington Sunder scored 7 runs. The complete team fell short of 46 runs and ended up loosing the match.
Here’s how twitter reacted to the first win of Mumbai Indians, have a look:
Assured all-round performance from @mipaltan ! It’s been coming!
Hitman @ImRo45 goes bang-bang! ? Captains knock!?
Mitch getting Quinny and AB was HUGE! @krunalpandya24 what a spell! What Variation..KICKASS!??
Come On @mipaltan Let’s rack up the W’s!#MIvRCB?@IPL
— Ranveer Singh (@RanveerOfficial) April 17, 2018
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https://twitter.com/Saranya200/status/986297055894061056
Mumbai Indians Beat #RCB By 46 Runs. Both Skippers Scored 90+. Well Played Virat Kohli And Rohit Sharma. #MIvRCB #MIvsRCB #RCBvMI #RCBvsMI
— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja) April 17, 2018
Best way to describe #RCB is that it’s a terrible #Bollywood movie with great item numbers #ViratKohli & #ABDeVilliers stuck in the middle of it ?
— Asjad Nazir (@asjadnazir) April 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/STBTalks/status/986296311719772160
The reason behind why this RCB bowlers get smashed like hell in each season is, they have to practice with Virat and ABD in net that’s where they lose all there hope and confidence. #RCBvMI #MIvRCB
— Sheetal Jain?? (@RealSheetal) April 17, 2018
Virat Kohli really needs to calm the f**k down…!!!
He truly has 0 sportsman spirit, too too aggressive, shudder to think of the RCB dugout now with him in a tight awful mood!! #VIVOIPL #MIvRCB— Sharanya Narayanan (@iamsharz) April 17, 2018
Third umpire should be FIRED. He doesn’t deserve anything better. That clearly showed an edge. Bl**dy cheater! #MIvRCB
— Jaanvi? (@ThatCric8Girl) April 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/ViratCrew/status/986304359376891905
From 0/2 to 213/6, this is some comeback!
C’mon boys, DEFEND THIS! ?#CricketMeriJaan #MIvRCB #MumbaiIndians
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) April 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/SaysItSo/status/986279757632356352
Great thing about Dhoni is that he never shows his emotions Happy/Sad/Angry on field. Thats a best quality a leader can have. Never show it to your teammates that you are under pressure.
VIRAT KOHLI failed in this.#MIvRCB
— Kana Sir❁????? ֍ #HappyNewYear #2021 #2022 (@Kanatunga) April 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/Sajjanlaunda/status/986296306598461440
Dear Virat Kohli, Welcome to Jio IPL. #MIvRCB
— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) April 17, 2018
Virat Kohli gets the Orange Cap.
“I don’t feel like wearing it right now … because it doesn’t really matter”#IPL2018 #MIvRCB pic.twitter.com/XrNsY7GhAy
— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) April 17, 2018
If there’s a spike on Ultra-Edge at the time of ball passing the bat…that should be OUT. #DRS #MIvRCB
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) April 17, 2018
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