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Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Mumbai Indians by 2 wickets in a thrilling match. In this low-scoring match played in Raipur, defending champion Bengaluru achieved a sensational victory by achieving the target of 167 runs on the last ball. With this, Mumbai Indians were out of IPL 2026. With this, Bengaluru has won after 2 consecutive defeats and has secured the first position in the team points table. The stars of this victory of Bengaluru were Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Krunal Pandya.
Batting first, Mumbai Indians did not have a good start this time and within just 3 overs, all their first three batsmen returned to the pavilion. The reason for this was Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who killed all three. In this, there were wickets of Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav on consecutive balls. However, Rohit definitely scored 22 runs in 10 balls. But from here Naman Dheer and Tilak Verma made a strong partnership of 82 runs and took the team beyond 100 runs.
Naman missed his half-century but Tilak completed his fifty. As long as he was at the crease, Mumbai's big score seemed certain. But in the 18th over, Bhuvneshwar dismissed Tilak and then the Mumbai team could reach only 166 runs after losing 7 wickets in 20 overs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar took maximum 4 wickets.
But the story of Bengaluru was also no different and it also lost 3 wickets in the powerplay itself, the reason for which was Deepak Chahar. In his very first over, Chahar dismissed Virat Kohli, who failed to open the account for the second consecutive match. After this he killed Devdutt Padikkal, while Corbin Bosch made a big kill in the form of captain Rajat Patidar. From here a partnership was formed between Krunal Pandya and Jaibak Bethel and both added 55 runs.
Even after Bethel was out, Krunal remained steadfast and scored a half-century in just 32 balls and kept the team in the match. Meanwhile, Jitesh Sharma came and made a small but important contribution for the team by hitting 3 boundaries and helped in increasing the score. Meanwhile, despite leg injury, Krunal remained steadfast and brought the team back by hitting 2 sixes in the 18th over. Bengaluru needed 15 runs in the last over. Romario Shepherd was out in this over of Raj Angad Bawa but Bhuvneshwar hit a six as soon as he came. Then 2 runs were needed on the last ball and here Rasikh Salam gave the team a sensational victory by taking 2 runs.
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