Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 8 wickets

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), who are said to be the choker team of IPL. Even with all the big stars, there is a precedent for them coming back from a close distance of the title. On the other hand, Mumbai Indians are quite successful as a team. But the start of the season is not good for them. The same happened in this match. Mumbai lost by a big margin in batting due to Kohli-Plessi's combination.

Bengaluru hosts Mumbai in the second match of the day on Sunday (April 2). Due to their own ground, Du Plessis created pressure on Mumbai from the start. However, despite the slow start, Rohit Sharma collected a fighting capital of 172 runs in the end. However, RCB has proved that target to be too small. They won by 8 wickets with 22 balls in hand.

Earlier, Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis won the toss and elected to field first. Rohit Sharma steps out to toss for visiting Mumbai.

The captains of all the teams came to the official photo session last Thursday (March 30), the day before the IPL curtain went up. But Rohit was not present there. As a result, there were rumors that he was injured. At the same time, it is said that he may have been removed from the captaincy. However, this captain of the national team came to lead this match over those talks.

Mumbai's batting got off to a shaky start. Ishan Kishan opened with captain Rohit. But stay away from RCB bowlers scoring runs, they lost 3 wickets in 20 runs. Not only that, to say the entire top order of Mumbai was a failure today. Skipper Rohit returned with only 1 run after being dismissed by Akash Deep. Earlier, Kishan and Cameron Greene returned. An out-of-form Suryakumar Yadav also couldn't settle down at the crease.

Tilak Verma showed resilience at the other end of Mumbai's wicket fall. Basically he pulled the team alone. Played an impeccable innings of 84 runs. With his bat, Mumbai got a fighting capital of 171 runs.

Kohli and du Plessis batted evenly from the start to chase that target. Two of the best stars of cricket in a partnership, Mumbai's bowlers were beaten. Hal's fearsome speed star Jofra Archer didn't care.

Both Kohli and du Plessis scored fifties. They make the fierce temper match one sided. Kohli scored 82 runs off 49 balls for RCB. He hit 5 sixes and 6 fours. On the other hand, du Plessis got out with 73 runs off 43 balls with 6 sixes and 5 fours.

In the end, Glenn Maxwell hit two successive sixes to ensure Bengaluru's victory. Kohli started the 16th season of IPL brilliantly by winning in 16.2 overs.

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