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RCB won the match by entering the house of Mumbai Indians, MI bowlers failed in front of Rajat Patidar and Phil Salt.

By Samira Vishwas

MI vs RCB 20th Match IPL 2026 Match Highlight: The 20th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 was played at Wankhede. This match took place between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians, in which RCB defeated MI by 18 runs. Earlier, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and invited Bengaluru to bat. Batting first, RCB set a massive target of 241 runs for Mumbai. In response, Mumbai Indians could score 222 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. According to this, RCB has won this match by 18 runs.

RCB batsmen showed their strength

Overall, the top order batsmen had an important contribution in this big innings of RCB. Virat Kohli played an inning of 50 runs in 38 balls and gave a strong start to the team. Along with him, Phil Salt batted in a stormy style and scored 78 runs in just 36 balls, which was the highest score for the team. Captain Rajat Patidar also showed aggressive style and scored 53 runs in 20 balls. The brilliant batting of these three took RCB to a big score.

At the end of the innings, Tim David batted fast and strengthened the team’s score. He scored 34 runs in 16 balls and his strike rate was 200. His short but effective innings played an important role in taking RCB to the huge score of 240. Mumbai Indians bowlers could not leave much impact in this match. For the team, Trent Boult, Hardik Pandya, Mitchell Santner and Shardul Thakur got one wicket each, but no bowler could put pressure on the RCB batsmen.

Sherfane Rutherford’s stormy innings did not work for MI

In this match for Mumbai Indians, the first four batsmen failed to score big. Ryan Rickleton scored 37 and Rohit Sharma retired hurt on 19 runs. At the same time, Suryakumar Yadav was out for 33 runs and Tilak Verma was out for just 1 run. At the same time, captain Hardik Pandya faced 22 balls and scored 40 runs. In the end, Sherfane Rutherford tried his best to make his team win, but he could not take the team to the threshold of victory. He played an unbeaten half-century of 71 runs facing 31 balls with a strike rate of 200+. Whereas Mitchell Santner remained unbeaten after scoring 8 runs.

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The performance of the bowlers was mixed for RCB in this match. Krunal Pandya bowled very economically and took 1 wicket by spending only 26 runs in 4 overs. Whereas, Suyyash Sharma got 2 wickets. Apart from this, Jacob Duffy and Rasik Salam Dar sent 1-1 batsman of Mumbai Indians to the pavilion.

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