Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

KL Rahul
KL Rahul
68(53) 3x4 - 4x6
Control %64%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 19 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
2 4 21 5 14 3 6 13
AT Rayudu
AT Rayudu
44(47) 2x4 - 2x6
Control %83%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 12 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
0 0 0 1 8 17 6 12

Best performances - Bowlers

VR Aaron
VR Aaron
O3.4
M0
R37
W2
Eco10.09
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
KH Pandya
KH Pandya
O4
M0
R15
W1
Eco3.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Match Details

Toss

Mumbai Indians , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.30, Interval 21.30-21.50, Second Session 21.50- 23.20

Match days

11 May 2016 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Mumbai Indians 2, Royal Challengers Bangalore 0

Commentator: Karthik Krishnaswamy

11.55pm That's it. Mumbai have picked themselves up after that hiccup against Sunrisers, and are back in the mix for a playoff spot. RCB have it all to do, and probably have to win all their remaining games. How will the rest of the season unfold? You'll have to tune into ESPNcricinfo if you want to find out in the minutest detail. Until next time, ta ta!

Krunal Pandya is the man of the match. "I was just trying to vary pace. The wicket was on the slower side and I just wanted to mix it up. Generally Bangalore is a heavy-scoring ground and I expected the same, but I got the idea, after a few balls, that it would be good to vary my pace here. When I was not playing IPL, my dream team was Mumbai Indians, and it's an honour to be part of the team."

Rohit Sharma: "It was a crunch game for us. Sets us up very nicely on the table. We bowled really well, we fielded really well, and we came out and batted really well. There was a hiccup in the middle but Jos and Polly finished really well for us. Second over, getting Kohli, and then getting de Villiers was really important, and we kept it really tight. 150 was always going to be a good score to chase here. I thought the surface was a little dry, it was a little slow, which is why we wanted to keep rotating our bowlers. They never got used to any one bowler. That was the idea behind containing them, and the plan really worked. Last game was a disaster for us, and we wanted to come here and play some good cricket, which is what we're known for."

Virat Kohli: "We're literally playing knock-outs now. Great knock from KL. I thought we weren't in the game at all till the 15th over, but good work from KL and Sachin to pull us back. But it was still asking too much from the bowlers. We were around 20 runs short, I think. We lost a couple of early wickets, dismissals you don't generally see - I got out, guiding it, literally slip catching. Credit to the spinners - Bhajju pa and Krunal bowled very well, and it isn't easy for spinners to bowl here. We gave 120 per cent effort on the field and that's what counts. If things could have gone our way a little bit in the end it could have been different. I love the pressure. It's a wonderful situation to be in. You can't relax in this situation, you literally have to win every game from here. It's going to take a lot of character but that's why you play cricket."

11.37pm Mumbai have coasted home, thanks to Pollard and Buttler, and some ordinary bowling in the closing stages from RCB. It was getting quite tight at one point, when Rayudu was dismissed. I'm not sure yet, but I think RCB will have to win all of their remaining games to qualify.

18.4
6
Aaron to Buttler, SIX, full-toss on middle stump, and Buttler clears his front leg and hammers that over wide long-on
18.3
1
Aaron to Pollard, 1 run, very full on off stump. Pollard wants to whip through midwicket, is a little too early into his shot, and ends up toe-ending it through the covers

Free-hit coming up.

18.3
2nb
Aaron to Buttler, (no ball) 1 run, that's a high full-toss on off stump, and Buttler opens up quickly to pull. Hits it in the air, down to the fielder at deep midwicket, but it's well over waist high, and no-ball has been signalled
18.2
0
Aaron to Buttler, no run, this one's just inside the tramline, and Buttler reaches out to slap it and can't make contact
18.2
1w
Aaron to Buttler, 1 wide, another wide outside off. Looks for the slower ball, bowls it outside the tramline
18.1
1
Aaron to Pollard, 1 run, short outside off, swivels to pull to long-on

Here's Aaron.

Tiny margins of error if you're bowling the yorker. His first four balls were there or thereabouts, his last two didn't miss the mark by all that much. The last two went for six.

  • Hurt Mumbai eye return to winning ways

    After an 85-run defeat in the last game, Mumbai Indians have joined Royal Challengers Bangalore in a mid-table tussle

  • Pollard's game of distinct halves ends well

    When Kieron Pollard came out to bat, having already given RCB a foothold with the ball, the game could have gone either way; he made sure it was Mumbai's with a dominant show on a tricky pitch

  • RCB 'peaking' despite defeat - Rahul

    Despite Royal Challengers Bangalore losing their sixth game of the season, batsman KL Rahul has said the team was peaking as the 2016 IPL approached its business end

  • Krunal Pandya turns match in Mumbai's favour

    Mumbai left-arm spinner, Krunal Pandya, helped contain Bangalore's powerful top order with an economical display of one for 15 that helped his side undo their opponents by six wickets in their Indian Twenty20 competition encounter in Bangalore on Wednesda

  • McClenaghan's fire and Rahul's ice

    Plays of the day from the IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians

Sixth against Mumbai

6

No. of losses for RCB v MI in Bangalore - joint most by a team v an opposition at a venue. Other instances: RCB v CSK (Chennai), KXIP v KKR (Kolkata)

Aaron strikes back

58

Runs scored by Rohit Sharma off 25 balls from Varun Aaron in the IPL before this match. Aaron got Rohit's wicket off the 2nd ball in this game.

Powerplay low

64

Total runs scored in Powerplay by both teams in this match - the joint lowest in an IPL match in Bangalore. The same teams had made 64 in 2011.

Third lowest

2

Totals lower than RCB's 151 in Bangalore for the loss of 5 or fewer wickets in an inns from 20 overs. Lowest of 140/4 was also by RCB, v MI in 2011.

Frugal Pandya

15

Runs conceded by Krunal Pandya from his four overs - the joint second least in an innings by any spinner to bowl full quota in T20s in Bangalore.

Third lowest

25

Runs made by RCB in Powerplay - their 3rd lowest in Bangalore. They had made 20 runs against KKR and 24 against Mumbai in the 2012 IPL and 2011 IPL resply.

Openers fail

12

Runs scored totally by Royal Challengers' openers - the lowest they have scored in their last 14 innings since they made 11 runs against Rajasthan Royals in the last IPL.

What home advantage?

1-5

Royal Challengers Bangalore's win-loss record against Mumbai Indians in Bangalore - their worst against any IPL team at this venue.