MI vs RCB, IPL 2024 Match 25: Award Winners, Man of The Match, Post-Match Presentation, Scorecard & Records

MI vs RCB, IPL 2024 Match 25: Mumbai Indians hammered Royal Challengers Bengaluru by seven wickets and 27 balls remaining at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Wednesday, April 11. Mumbai have jumped to seventh spot with the win.

RCB posted a 197-run target after being asked to bat first after fifties from Faf du Plessis, Rajat Patidar and Dinesh Karthik. Karthik scored a 22-ball fifty and remained unbeaten on 53 off 23 balls. Jasprit Bumrah picked his IPL career's second five-wicket haul and finished with figures of 5/21 in four overs.

In reply, Mumbai Indians made a mockery of the target. Ishan Kishan (69 off 34) smashed a 23-ball fifty, Suryakumar Yadav (52 off 19) a 17-ball fifty, Rohit Sharma 38 off 24, and Hardik Pandya unbeaten 21 off six, as Mumbai registered their second win of the season. RCB have now lost five of their six games, and are reeling at the ninth spot in the nine-team IPL 2024 points table.

MI vs RCB IPL 2024 Match 25 Award Winners

Man Of The Match: Jasprit Bumrah, (5/21)

Punch.EV Electric Striker Of The Match: Suryakumar Yadav

Fantasy Player of the Match: Jasprit Bumrah

Super 6s of the match: Ishan Kishan, 5 sixes

RuPay On-The-Go 4s: Ishan Kishan, 7 fours

MI vs RCB IPL 2024: Who said What?

Faf du Plessis (RCB captain): "It's a tough pill to swallow - combination of two things, very wet (the conditions with dew), I need to somehow win some tosses, secondly, they played really well, put the pressure on us and we made a lot of mistakes (especially during the powerplay).

"We knew dew would be a factor, we might have needed to make 250+, but they made 196 look very less. You know when there's dew coming, you'll have to bat big, the ball was very wet, it was changed a few times and the bowlers struggled. We also lost a few key moments, we were going well when myself and Patidar were out in the middle with that partnership, but they did come back well.

"Every time you see him with the ball in his hand (on Jasprit Bumrah), you think you'll have to put him under pressure. But he has so many skills, bowls well under pressure, he bowls with the same action and has a lot of variations. I think he has become even better under the guidance of Lasith Malinga.

"We would have loved if he was part of our team (smiles). We will have to find ways with the bat, get those big scores, we know our bowling is not our strongest suit, but we'll have to find ways to manage it, we'll have to be creative, go hard with the bat and make most of the first 4-5 overs with the bat."

Hardik Pandya (Mumbai Indians captain): "Always good to win. The way we have won - it's quite impressive. Impact player has given the opportunity to use an extra bowler if we require. It gives me a cushion as well. The way Ro and Kishan batted, giving the platform, it was important for us to finish it early.

"We didn't speak about it. That's the beauty of this team, players know what to do. Blessed to have Bumrah in my side. He does it over and over again. He practices a lot. The amount of experience and confidence he has is tremendous.

"I did tell him when he scored the fifty that welcome back. I've been opposition captain as well against him, it's tough to put field for him. Whatever the situation requires - last game I had to take some time, and this game's scenario was different."

Jasprit Bumrah (Man of the Match): "I'm very happy with the outcome. But I will not say I had always thought of taking a five-for. Wicket was sticking in the first 10 overs. One of those days where things went in my favour and catches went to hand.

"In this format, it's anyway very harsh on the bowlers so you need to have different skills. Can't be a one-trick pony. Everyone is doing research and data. Have trained to have different skills. Bowling is tough because you will have to take a beating, you will have to have bad days to learn from it.

"Whenever I've had bad days, I've watched videos the next day to see what didn't work, why it didn't work. You bowl to batters in the nets who hit big sixes, find out how you react to pressure. And when you're in the middle facing same pressure, you'll have answers.

"I do my research and see where the batter is strong. You don't need to use all tricks on one day. There's no ego in this format. Even if you can bowl 145kph, if the wicket demands slower balls then you'll have to bowl slower balls."

Suryakumar Yadav (Mumbai Indians batter): "It's always good to be back at Wankhede, when the tournament started I was mentally here only, although physically in Bangalore (recovering from the injury), it felt like I never left.

"When you are chasing 200, it is important to know the dew factor and take your chances, both Rohit and Ishan did the job for us at the 10th over mark and we only knew that we had to finish early for that net run rate thing.

"I just try to play to the field and practice these shots and it is just muscle memory (talking about his freak shots) and I go out there and enjoy myself. The slice over point is the one that I enjoyed the most.

"The management told him (Ishan Kishan) to go out and enjoy, he has worked really hard on his batting and is just enjoying the fruits now. It's been almost 2-3 years since I batted against him (Bumrah) in the nets, because he either breaks my bat or breaks my foot."

MI vs RCB IPL 2024: Key Stats

27: These are the joint second-most number of balls left while chasing a 190-plus target in IPL. MI chased 190-plus target with 32 balls left against RR in IPL 2014
The defeat is RCB's sixth consecutive defeat against MI at the Wankhede
Jasprit Bumrah became only the fourth bowler to pick two five-fers in IPL 2024