On Tuesday night, it was glorious day for defending champions Mumbai Indians in pursuit of their first win and scored 2 point in the point-table of IPL 2018. Mumbai Indians took on mighty Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at the Wankhede Stadium. The last-night, was completely a one-sided affair, as Rohit Sharma’s blue-army put into bat by the run-machine aka Virat Kohli.
Stats of the match
2 Number of times a team has lost two wickets off first two balls of an IPL match. The only other such instance before this match had come in 2011 when Chennai Super Kings lost Aniruddha Srikkanth and Suresh Raina to Kings XI Punjab’s Praveen Kumar at Mohali.
213/6 is the Mumbai Indians’ total – the highest ever total by any side in the IPL that lost a couple wicket in the first over. Kings XI Punjab had made 211 for four at Hyderabad in 2014. Mumbai Indians’ total – their highest against Royal Challengers Bangalore. They had made 209 for seven at Bengaluru in 2015.
4619 Runs scored by Virat Kohli in the IPL, is now the most by any batsman in the IPL history. He went past to CSK batsmen Suresh Raina’s tally of 4558 runs.
186 Runs scored by two captains in the match (Rohit Sharma – 94, Virat Kohli – 92*) – most by captains in a single IPL match.
0 Number of instances of two captains scoring a ninety in the same Twenty20 match before this match.
55.08 Percent of Royal Challengers Bangalore’s runs came off Virat Kohli’s bat (92 out of 167). This is the fourth highest percentage for any captain in a team innings where 8 or more fell. The record is held by Virat himself, with contribution of 57.29% in RCB’s innings against Rising Pune Supergiant at Pune last year.
1 Mumbai Indians registered their first win in IPL2018 after three consecutive losses.
