A sublime 66 from wicketkeeper-batter Anuj Rawat led Royal Challengers Bangalore to a seven-wicket win over Mumbai Indians in match 18 of IPL 2022 at MCA Stadium on Saturday.
After Suryakumar Yadav lifted Mumbai from 79/6 to 151/6, Bangalore chased down the target with nine balls remaining. Rawat was ably supported by Virat Kohli`s 48 as Mumbai endured misfields, dropped catches and overthrows to crash to their fourth loss of the tournament.
Bangalore had a sedate power-play, with 30 runs coming in for no loss. Rawat launching back-to-back sixes on both sides of the `v` off Jaydev Unadkat were the only boundaries in the first six overs. Mumbai tried hard for wickets, which included bringing in two overs of Jasprit Bumrah. But they couldn`t take out either Rawat or a circumspect Faf du Plessis.
Bangalore got a move on when Rawat slog-swept a full toss from Murugan Ashwin over square leg, followed by du Plessis driving through long-off as 15 runs came off the seventh over. Mumbai finally struck in the ninth over when du Plessis holed out to long-on off Unadkat.
Rawat and Kohli took a boundary each off Ashwin in the 11th over to keep Bangalore in the hunt. Kohli then flicked Basil Thampi through mid-wicket followed by Rawat producing a beautiful whipped six over square leg and a cracking cut through backward point to take 15 runs off the over.
Rawat brought up his maiden IPL fifty in 38 balls while Kohli pulled Jasprit Bumrah between long-on and deep mid-wicket. He earned a reprieve at 30 when Dewald Brewis dropped a catch at deep backward square leg and allowed the ball to go through his legs for a boundary.
Rawat slammed sixes off Pollard and Unadkat over deep backward square leg and mid-wicket before his knock ended at 66 via a direct hit from Ramandeep Singh at mid-on. Kohli fell lbw to Brevis while trying to defend.
Dinesh Karthik slammed a pull over mid-wicket off Bumrah while Glenn Maxwell applied the finishing touches with back-to-back fours through backward point and cover off Brevis to hand Bangalore their third win.
Brief scores: Mumbai Indians 151/6 in 20 overs (Suryakumar Yadav 68 not out, Rohit Sharma 26; Harshal Patel 2/23, Wanindu Hasaranga 2/28) lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore 152/3 in 18.3 overs (Anuj Rawat 66; Virat Kohli 48; Dewald Brevis 1/8, Jaydev Unadkat 1/30) by seven wickets
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