Glenn Maxwell, Yuzvendra Chahal and Virat Kohli also fire for RCB; flat Mumbai Indians fall to seventh on points table
Royal Challengers Bangalore 165 for 6 (Maxwell 56, Kohli 51, Bumrah 3-36) beat Mumbai Indians 111 (Rohit 43, Harshal 4-17, Chahal 3-11) by 54 runs
In their first two games since the resumption of IPL 2021, Royal Challengers Bangalore managed all of five wickets combined in two massive losses. On Sunday, they ran into the defending champions, dearly needing a win to turn around a mid-season slump. And they got it in style.
Virat Kohli struck another half-century, Glenn Maxwell provided middle-overs firepower and key wickets before Yuzvendra Chahal and Harshal Patel, state-mates from Haryana, topped off a memorable night with emphatic bowling spells. Chahal picked up 3 for 11, while Patel bagged a hat-trick (inclusive of the key wickets of Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard). It consigned Mumbai Indians to their third straight loss in the UAE-leg of the tournament, their title defence hanging by a thread.
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Shashank Kishore is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
Source: ESPN Crickinfo