IPL 2023: The 16th season of the Indian Premier League is off to a great start, with fans finally getting to enjoy the league’s home-and-away matches. The stadiums are packed with cricket fans who are there to support their favourite teams and watch them defeat the opposition. As RCB defeated Mumbai Indians by 8 wickets in their team’s season opener at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, fans there were also evidently in a good mood.
Along with the cricketing drama that occurred during the match, a video of fans mocking the Mumbai Indians and India skipper Rohit Sharma has gone popular on social media. In the video, spectators can be heard screaming “Rohit Vadapav” after Mumbai suffered a humiliating loss to the home team.
The opening batter, however, failed to take most of his opportunities and was eventually out in the sixth over after Akash Deep edged the ball straight to the wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik. Since 2017, the 35-year-old has struggled with his batting in the IPL, averaging in the 20s over the previous six seasons.
In the 2021 IPL season, he last reached a half-century, and in Mumbai’s worst season ever in 2022, when they finished last on the points table, he could only muster 268 runs in 14 innings.
For RCB, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis led the run chase.
Resuming the game, Mumbai was allowed to bat first but struggled against the RCB’s dangerous bowling, ending up at 48/4 after 8.5 overs. Tilak Varma’s brilliant stroke of 84* off 46 balls gave them a respectable score of 171/7.
In response, the RCB’s opening pair of Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis dominated Mumbai from the get-go, scoring 148 runs for the first wicket in just 89 balls. Du Plessis continued to score, finishing with 73 off 43 balls, while Kohli, who was still unbroken at 82* off 49, helped his team reach the goal with 22 balls remaining. Because of his outstanding performance and sensational catch of Hrithik Shokeen in the first innings, Du Plessis was named Player of the Match.
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