Whether Joffre Archer, Jason Behrendorff, or Piyush Chawla. The pair of Virat Kohli and Faf Duplesey played fiercely with the bowling attack of Mumbai Indians at the Chinnaswamy ground. The current Bangalore captain and the former captain combined to create such mayhem that captain Rohit Sharma, who made Mumbai champions five times, grabbed his head.
Kohli-Duplessy created a furore with the bat
Bangalore achieved the target of 172 runs from Mumbai by losing only 2 wickets in just 16.2 overs. RCB started IPL 2023 with a bang and beat Rohit's team by 8 wickets. The heroes of this big victory in Bangalore were Virat Kohli and Faf Duplesey.
Kohli and Duplesey put on 148 runs in 14.5 overs for the first wicket. Duplessis scored 73 runs in 43 balls, while Kohli remained unbeaten after scoring 82 runs in 49 balls. Virat hit a six up front to give RCB their first win of the season. Glenn Maxwell also hit 12 not out in 3 balls.
Mumbai's batting order flopped badly
Earlier, after losing the toss, Mumbai Indians got off to bat and Ishaan Kishan was dismissed for just 10 runs. After this, Cameron Green, who was making his IPL debut, also could not show anything special with the bat and was clean-bowled by Reece Topley and shown the way to the pavilion. Captain Rohit got out after scoring just one run.
Tilak Verma played stormy innings
At the same time, Suryakumar Yadav was also dismissed after scoring 15 and Tim David just 4 runs. However, Tilak Verma held one end and batted in a stormy fashion, scoring an unbeaten 84 in 46 balls with the help of 9 fours and 4 sixes. The young batsman wreaked havoc in the last over and took the Bangalore bowlers to task. Due to the quick innings of Tilak, Mumbai Indians managed to score 171 runs losing 7 wickets in 20 overs.
