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Bangalore: Mumbai Indians defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 18 runs in at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on Sunday night.
Mumbai posted a big total on the board and Harbhajan Singh’s three demolished any hopes RCB had of chasing down the big total.
The chase had an interesting start when Chris Gayle hit Mitchell McClenaghan, the IPL debutant straight to Lendl Simmons but Simmons dropped him on duck. Gayle was dropped by Malinga as well but Harbhajan returned to dismiss Gayle for a painstaking 10 in 24 balls.
When Dinesh Karthik came out to bat at No. 4 ahead of Rilee Rossouw, it raised a lot of eyebrows. Virat Kohli too was under pressure; he has not scored that well in IPL 2015 and when McClenaghan had Kohli caught at cover, RCB sinked further.
Malinga returned to dismiss Karthik to reduce RCB to 97 for four but nothing stopped de Villiers from taking 22 runs off the next five balls he faced from Malinga in that very over. UPDATES: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians
Harbhajan Singh playing his 100th IPL game for Mumbai Indians also took his 100th IPL wicket when he dismissed Rilee Rossouw for a first ball duck. AB though played a blinder but the pressure was always too much for him and he got out for a 11-ball 41. A knock that had some superb hits to the fence. David Wiese backed up his impressive work with the ball earlier with a good cameo.
RCB were in the hunt thanks to that cameo, Iqbal Abdulla and Wiese added 50 runs in just 23 balls to keep Mumbai on their toes. In the last two overs, Mumbai needed 35 runs to win but Malinga conceded just the seven runs.
Rohit Sharma then handed the ball to Kieron Pollard to defend 28 runs in the final over of the game and he that well to ensure Mumbai finally got off the mark in IPL 2015.
Earlier, Mumbai posted a par total on board, thanks to the fifties from Simmons and Unmukt Chand. Both of them made the wayward RCB bowlers pay as Mumbai set the platform up for a big score after a decent start.
Simmons returned to form with a hard hitting and quick fifty as the RCB bowlers were poor in their lines and lengths. He scored his fourth IPL fifty and brought it up in just 36 balls. Chand carried on once Simmons left and scored his maiden IPL fifty.
Rohit Sharma chipped in with a quick 42 before getting dismissed by chipping one back to David Wiese.
Wiese ended up with four for 33 as not many RCB bowlers executed their plans well. Yuzvendra Chahal took two for 28 in his spell.
Brief scores
Mumbai Indians - 209/7 (Simmons 59, Chand 58, Rohit 42, Wiese 4-33)
Bangalore - 191/7 (Wiese 47*, de Villiers 41, Harbhajan Singh 3-27)
Result - Mumbai Indians won by 18 runs
Points - Mumbai Indians 2, Royal Challengers Bangalore 0
MOM - Harbhajan Singh (Mumbai Indians)
