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Kohli, Du Plessis Lead RCB To Comprehensive Eight-Wicket Victory Over Mumbai Indians

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April 2, 2023
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IPL 2023: Kohli, Du Plessis Lead RCB To Comprehensive Eight-Wicket Victory Over Mumbai Indians

Scintillating half-centuries from Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli led Royal Challengers Bangalore’s comprehensive eight-wicket victory over Mumbai Indians

Updated: April 3, 2023 12:14 AM IST | Edited By: Nikhil

Bangalore: Scintillating half-centuries from Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli led Royal Challengers Bangalore’s comprehensive eight-wicket victory over Mumbai Indians in IPL 2023 match, marking a happy homecoming at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, here on Sunday.

As RCB took the field in Chinnaswamy Stadium after 1247 days, chants of the franchise engulfed the whole arena. To their credit, RCB didn’t disappoint at all, as bowlers got wickets in power-play and middle overs to keep Mumbai to 171/7, though young Tilak Varma shined with an outstanding 84 not out off just 46 balls.

In reply, du Plessis and Kohli put out an exhibition of majestic strokeplay and rattled Mumbai’s bowling attack to enthrall home fans. While du Plessis made 73 off 43 balls, including five fours and six sixes, Kohli was in sublime touch to be 82 not out off 49 balls, laced with six fours and five sixes to chase 172 in 16.2 overs to get their IPL 2023 campaign off to a winning start.

In defense of 171, Mumbai brought in Jason Behrendorff as an impact player in place of Suryakumar Yadav to share the new ball with Arshad Khan. After making a watchful start, du Plessis cut down on the swing by dancing down the pitch to hit four and two sixes on both sides of the wicket off Behrendorff.

Jofra Archer put down Kohli on his first ball of the match. Kohli then followed it up by placing a steer between the backward point and short third man for four and smacked a six over long-off. Kohli and du Plessis took a boundary each off Piyush Chawla and Archer to bring the fifty of their opening partnership in the powerplay.

Du Plessis continued to be unstoppable — timing his drives through the off-side against Cameron Green twice and ended the over with a scooped six to take 17 runs off the eighth over. He welcomed off-spinner Hrithik Shokeen with consecutive sixes over mid-wicket and long-on, the first of which took him to his fifty in 29 balls.

Kohli then danced down the pitch to whack Chawla over long-on for six and bring up the century of the opening partnership in the 11th over, before reaching his fifty in 38 balls. He then welcomed Behrendorff with a pull-through cow corner for four, before du Plessis pulled and flicked for four and six respectively.

Kohli hammered sixes off Archer and Arshad through the leg side to keep Mumbai under the pump. They had a breakthrough when du Plessis holed out to long-on, breaking the 148-run opening partnership. After Dinesh Karthik fell for a three-ball duck, Glenn Maxwell slapped sixes over extra cover and fine leg, with Kohli whipping and lofting for four and six respectively to complete Bangalore’s chase with 22 balls remaining.

Brief Scores: Mumbai Indians 171/7 in 20 overs (Tilak Varma 84 not out; Karn Sharma 2/32) lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore 172/2 in 16.2 overs (Virat Kohli 82 not out, Faf du Plessis 73; Arshad Khan 1/28, Cameron Green 1/30) by eight wickets.



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