IPL 2023 Live Report - Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at Wankhede Stadium

Nehal Wadhera ends it with a sweetly struck six over extra-cover off Harshal Patel, and Mumbai gun down 200 in just 16.3 overs. Not quite as jaw-dropping as that famous chase against Rajasthan Royals back in 2014, but the thing is that batters like Suryakumar Yadav have made outlandish chases seem commonplace.

Glenn Maxwell and Faf du Plessis played terrific innings for RCB earlier today as well, but Suryakumar batted at a level above even that today, helped along by some ordinary bowling from RCB, who struggled with dew. The game, though, was decided by the finish to RCB's innings. They only made 63 in the last 45 balls of their innings, after Mumbai had broken the Maxwell-Faf partnership.

Another high full-toss. This time it's Vyshak in the 16th over. It's straight at Suryakumar's body but he swats it away over the fine leg boundary like it's nothing.

Suggests there's quite a bit of dew about, which can't be helping RCB as the game slips rapidly away from them. It isn't as if SKY isn't hitting every other length to the boundary.

Vyshak gets Suryakumar later in the over, caught on the leg-side boundary, but by then the game is up. SKY goes for 83 off 35 balls, the kind of innings other top batters play once a year and he plays 10 times in a year. Whadaplaya.

Then Tim David comes in, and falls first ball, spooning a knuckle ball straight to mid-off.

SKY brings up his half-century in 26 balls, with a double into the covers, right after he'd launched Mohammed Siraj for a six over long-on, a shot that finished in trademark manner with his front leg in the air.

Anyone who bowls a lot of slower balls runs the risk of the ball slipping out and ending up as a full-toss, and Harshal Patel has been plagued by that issue all season, including being whisked out of the attack for bowling two high full-tosses in one game.

Nothing of that sort here, just yet, but he bowls one high full-toss in the 13th over, which ends up as an inadvertent boundary to Nehal Wadhera. An expensive over all round too, costing RCB 17 runs.

SKY loves that area behind the wicket, and after Josh Hazlewood bowls four cutters for just a single at the start of the 12th over, SKY ends the over with an uppercut to the fine third boundary and a shuffling swipe to the fine leg boundary. Mumbai march on.

Two sixes off Wanindu Hasaranga in the 11th over - a pull from SKY and a slog-sweep from Wadhera that leaves a dent on the sponsor car beyond the boundary - and Mumbai now need 86 from 54 balls. They're now favourites according to the win predictor, with a 58.26% chance of victory.

Technically it's 60.85% in favour of RCB, according to our win predictor, but it feels closer than that. Without taking too many chances, Suryakumar Yadav and Nehal Wadhera have put on 47 in five overs. Mumbai need 101 from the last 10 overs.

Read that headline aloud, and it's a little less cringe, trust me.

Excellent review from RCB. Rohit steps out, doesn't get to the pitch of the ball while looking to work it leg side. It's a legbreak that doesn't turn as much as he expects, and he's hit on the pad. Fair decision by the on-field umpire because the batter has stepped out, but RCB review, and ball-tracking suggests the ball has straightened just enough to be hitting a good chunk of leg stump. Rohit stepped out, but not so far that he got to the 3m mark that would have meant the on-field decision stood irrespective of ball-tracking.

Mumbai are 52 for 2 in five overs.

Kishan's onslaught continues after RCB bring on spin in the fifth over. He hits Wanindu Hasaranga for four and six off his first and third balls, both slightly overpitched. Then Hasaranga corrects his length, and Kishan, looking to make room to slash it away, top-edges to Anuj Rawat, who's keeping instead of Dinesh Karthik today.

Mumbai are 51 for 1 in 4.4 overs.

Ishan Kishan's hit three sixes off the last four (non-wide) balls he's faced. A crisp, dancing lofted drive over mid-on and a top-edged hook, off Mohammed Siraj, and now a humongous slog (I use the word purely descriptively here) over midwicket off Hazlewood. He's jumped to 31 off 15 balls, and Mumbai are 40 for no loss in 3.1 overs.

Rohit Sharma gets on strike for the first time, first ball of the second over, and wallops Josh Hazlewood for four over mid-on. Ishan Kishan gets on strike later in the over and ends it with back-to-back boundaries through the on side.

Mumbai are up and running.

Akash Madhwal is nippy, and he gets a bit of inward shape on the blockhole-seeking ball in the last over. He keeps going yorker, yorker, yorker, and lands it there or thereabouts throughout, and even his full-tosses don't offer hitting room because of that late shape. He concedes just six runs to Kedar Jadhav and Wanindu Hasaranga, and RCB end up with 199 for 6.

Is that enough against this deep and powerful Mumbai line-up at the Wankhede? Maybe, maybe not. Not the total RCB thought they might end up with after that du Plessis-Maxwell counterattack, but they'd have taken it if you gave it to them at 16 for 2.

RCB's lower order has promise but has seldom delivered on it. Case in point Wanindu Hasaranga, who walks out with the broadcasters putting up his IPL career stats, including a strike rate of 92.

He walks out because Chris Jordan has taken a massive wicket, getting DK to pull straight to deep midwicket, taking pace off the ball and forcing the batter to muscle it. RCB are 185 for 6.

Dinesh Karthik loves pace onto the bat, and isn't quite as comfortable facing spin, so he often ends up demoted when his team loses a bunch of early wickets, so he has a better entry point with seamers likely to bowl more overs to him.

Tonight, though, he's played a great little 18th over against Kumar Kartikeya, who had until then conceded just 20 in three overs. Kartikeya attempted to either fire it into Karthik's heels or fire it wide of his reach outside off stump, but he doesn't always get his lines and lengths right, and gets punished.

RCB are 185 for 5 in 18 overs.

Mumbai are fighting back here. Du Plessis looks to shuffle across and manufacture a scoop over short fine leg, but Cam Green doesn't give him the pace he's looking to work with. Only gets it as far as the circle, where Vishnu Vinod, the sub fielder, juggles the ball twice before catching it while falling to his left.

Du Plessis is out for 65 off 41, and RCB are 146 for 5 in 14.1 overs.

RCB bring in their Impact Substitute to try and lengthen their batting. Kedar Jadhav replaces the recently dismissed Lomror. Interesting that RCB pulled out Lomror, who gives them a left-arm spin option, rather than Anuj Rawat.

RCB are 143 for 4 in the 14th over. Lomror looks to make room to cut Kumar Kartikeya, and is bowled by one that skids through him. In walks Dinesh Karthik.

He's not going to end up with the most economical figures ever, but he's getting wickets. Maxwell slogs a Jason Behrendorff knuckle ball to deep midwicket, and he's out for 68 off 33 balls. RCB are 136 for 3 in 12.3 overs.

Mahipal Lomnror is the new batter.

Faf and Maxy, Maxy and Faf. They've put on four century stands this season now, and the shot that got them there, a reverse-scoop for six from Maxwell off Chris Jordan, exemplifies just how they've scored all those runs together.

Of all pairs to have scored at least 200 runs in partnership in T20 cricket, they have the best scoring rate: 12.02.

They're closing in on the IPL record for a season. AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli had five century stands in 2016, while David Warner and Jonny Bairstow had four in 2019.

Earlier in that over, du Plessis also brought up his fifty, off 30 balls.

RCB are 119 for 2 after 11 overs.

A flicked four past short fine leg, off Akash Madhwal, followed by a single to short third, brings up Maxwell's fifty, off just 25 balls.

Meanwhile, Shiva Jayaraman has this observation for us:

Faf du Plessis makes second chances count. Mumbai Indians learnt that the hard way when Ishan Kishan dropped him in the first fixture between the two teams earlier in the season. Du Plessis went on to add 50 runs in just 27 balls in that match after getting dropped. In the three innings when he has been reprieved after that game, du Plessis' scores post the reprieves have been – 15(6) v PBKS, 58(31) v CSK, 46(16) v LSG.

In fact, du Plessis has a habit of making opposition pay for their mistakes – he has been reprieved by way of a dropped catch or a missed stumping in 14 innings in the IPL since the 2018 season, before today. In these 14 innings, he has added 526 runs after the reprieve at an average of 43.8 and a strike-rate of 177. No batter has scored more runs in innings in which they have been reprieved since the 2018 IPL. Among batters with at least ten reprieved innings, only Dinesh Karthik – batting largely in the middle order with a few unbeaten innings - averages more than him.

A pair of sixes off Chris Jordan in the seventh over, and a clean, straight hit over long-on off Chawla in the eighth, and Maxwell moves to 43 off 20 balls. Du Plessis, meanwhile, is on 31 off 20.

That's RCB's fifth and sixth overs. They're now 56 for 2.

Not too long ago, du Plessis and Maxwell put on 127 off 66 balls against Rajasthan Royals, after coming together with RCB 12 for 2. Virat Kohli called it "one of the best counterattacking partnerships I've seen."

This partnership began at 16 for 2. It hasn't reached the dimensions of that partnership yet, but Mumbai Indians will want to end it as quickly as they can.

Of all batters to have faced at least 100 balls in the powerplay phase this season, du Plessis had the best strike rate coming into tbis game - 168.45 - with Yashasvi Jaiswal in second place at 166.26.

His powerplay strike rate isn't suffering today, despite RCB losing those two early wickets. He took two fours off Piyush Chawla in the second over, and now he's hit two more off Cameron Green in the fourth. He's moved to 18 off 11, and RCB are 29 for 2 in four overs. They know they can't afford to take their time rebuilding on this ground and against this opposition.

Jason Behrendorff has always been a force in the powerplay, and he now has two wickets in eight balls. The left-handed Anuj Rawat looks to shuffle across to try and scoop him over short fine leg, but picks a ball that happens to swing away from him. Only manages a top-edge that loops up for slip to catch after turning around and running towards the 30-yard circle. Good catch from Cameron Green, always difficult when the ball drops from over your shoulder.

Glenn Maxwell has joined du Plessis in the middle now. They already have three century partnerships this season.

Fourth ball of the match, Faf du Plessis flicks a low full-toss from Jason Behrendorff uppishly, and Nehal Wadhera puts down a fairly routine chance over his head at short midwicket.

A single results from that drop, bringing Virat Kohli on strike. He promptly looks to step out and hoick Behrendorff into the leg side, probably playing for some left-arm inswing, but the ball keeps going with the angle, and he only manages a thin edge through to the keeper. The on-field umpire doesn't spot it, but Mumbai review immediately and get their man. RCB are 2 for 1.

Mumbai love chasing, and teams love chasing at the Wankhede. Rohit Sharma wins the toss.

One change each for both sides. Chris Jordan gets a game soon after coming into Mumbai's squad as Jofra Archer's replacement. For RCB, a seamer replaces a legspinner, with Vijaykumar Vyshak coming in for Karn Sharma.

No Tilak Varma for Mumbai once again. He missed their last game with an unspecified injury, and he's not been named even among the subs.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Virat Kohli, 2 Faf du Plessis (capt), 3 Anuj Rawat, 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 Mahipal Lomror, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Wanindu Hasaranga, 8 Harshal Patel, 9 Josh Hazlewood, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Vijaykumar Vyshak. Subs: Kedar Jadhav, Michael Bracewell, Suyash Prabhudessai, Karn Sharma, Shahbaz Ahmed.

Mumbai Indians: 1 Cameron Green, 2 Rohit Sharma (capt), 3 Ishan Kishan (wk), 4 Suryakumar Yadav, 5 Nehal Wadhera, 6 Tim David, 7 Chris Jordan, 8 Piyush Chawla, 9 Jason Behrendorff, 10 Kumar Kartikeya, 11 Akash Madhwal. Subs: Ramandeep Singh, Tristan Stubbs, Vishnu Vinod, Sandeep Warrier, Raghav Goyal.