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Krunal Pandya’s struggling innings worked for RCB, Mumbai Indians were defeated by 2 wickets in a thrilling match.

By Samira Vishwas

MI vs RCB IPL 2026 Match Highlight: In the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, the 54th match of this season was played between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore. In this exciting match played in Raipur, RCB defeated MI by 2 wickets. In this match which reached till the last ball, Krunal Pandya played an important role with the bat for his team. Earlier, RCB captain Rajat Patidar had won the toss and invited Mumbai Indians to bat first. Batting first, Mumbai scored 166 runs. In response, RCB achieved this score in 20 overs after losing 8 wickets.

Krunal Pandya was the hero of RCB’s victory.

All-rounder Krunal Pandya was the hero of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s victory in the match. This time he showed his strength more with the bat than the ball. While chasing the score given by Mumbai, RCB had lost the wickets of batsmen like Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal and captain Rajat Pachidar in the beginning.

After this, Krunal Pandya struggled a lot against the bowlers of Mumbai Indians, but did not lose his wicket. He lost his wicket just after taking the team closer to victory. Krunal Pandya faced 46 balls and scored 73 runs on this difficult pitch of Raipur. His innings included 4 fours and 5 skyscraper sixes.

Corbin Bosch took four wickets

Apart from Krunal Pandya, Jacob Baithal scored 27 runs. Baithal along with Pandya made a partnership of 55 runs for the fourth wicket. Apart from this, Devdutt Padikkal scored 12, Jitesh Sharma 18 and finally Bhuvneshwar Kumar scored 7 match-winning runs. Carbin Bosch took maximum 4 wickets for Mumbai. Apart from this, Deepak Chahar also took 2 wickets. Whereas, M Ghazanfar and Raj Bawa got 1 wicket each.

Mumbai’s batting

After losing the toss, Mumbai Indians, who came to bat first against RCB, did not have a good start. Bhuvneshwar Kumar sent Ryan Rickelton to the pavilion on the score of just 2 runs in the very first over of the innings. after this Rohit Sharma He was out after scoring 22 runs in 10 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes. Captain Suryakumar Yadav’s disappointing performance continued in this match as well and he was out without opening the account.

Salute to the innings of MI who were looking in trouble after losing 3 wickets at the score of 28, Dhir and Tilak Verma Took over and played an important partnership of 82 runs in 57 balls for the fourth wicket. Facing 32 balls, Naman scored 47 runs with the help of 5 fours and 2 sixes. Whereas, Tilak Verma scored 57 runs in 42 balls. In this innings, Tilak hit 3 fours and 2 sixes. Will Jacques could contribute only 10 runs, while Raj Bawa was out after scoring 16 runs in 14 balls.

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Corbin Bosch remained unbeaten on 5 and Deepak Chahar scored one run. Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s excellent performance in bowling for RCB continued in this match as well. Bhuvneshwar took 4 big wickets giving just 23 runs in 4 overs. At the same time, Josh Hazlewood, Romario Shepherd and Rasikh Salam took one wicket each.

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