MI vs RCB

12:15 PM local time and IST: A long night and a long weekend including two double headers, all of that has come to an end but the action is far from over. The caravan moves to Hyderabad tomorrow with SRH set to host table-toppers RR in what will be an exteremely important clash for them. We will see you then, for now this is Sourabh Agrawal signing off from here. See you soon, cheers!

Phil Salt is the Player of the Match for his scintillating knock of 78 off just 36 balls: Some highs and lots of lows, got to ride both and try to stay as even as you can. Some of these grounds are not bowler-friendly so you have to keep going at the opposition. I know that I cannot score runs in every game, no one can but I try to see that I can make an impact. To be honest we had a few more in the tank, they shut us down in the second half of our innings so those are good sings for us as a batting unit but they bowled well.

Rajat Patidar (RCB captain): Feels amazing. Whenever we come here at the Wankhede, it is a different feeling playing in front of a packed stadium. It is all about clarity about roles for the individuals. The start provided by Virat and Phil was amazing, good cameos by myself and Tim, it was a complete team effort. People felt that I am a good player of spin but if you ask me, I love playing fast bowlers, specially on a pitch like this. He (Virat Kohli) should be fine

Suyash Sharma (2/47) for some words: I was thinking of wickets, you get hit for runs in a big chase but I knew that this wicket would turn. I wanted to hit the stumps, was not thinking of dots. It depends on the situation, if there had been less runs on the board I might have looked to defend but we had a big score so I went for wickets. (on his plans to the left-handers) My plan was to bowl in their blockhole, both of them (Rickelton and Tilak) have a good game on the off side so I just wanted to keep it simple and hit the stumps

Hardik Pandya (MI captain): Yes, lost too many wickets in the middle but at the same time we conceded too many. It was always going to be catchup, in the last couple of games we have been catching up both with the ball and the bat instead of leading. Need to reflect, what best we can do and get the momentum that we need. We have a couple of days off. A lot of things need to be rethink, it hasn't worked, has been a couple of games and we need to look at other option. Still need to bat well as well as bowl well too, regardless of the toss. We are trying to catch up in the powerplay, batting and bowling both and we will have to see what we can do in the next games. (on Rutherford) When we bought him, we knew the power and the potential he has. It gives us extra cushion and confidence 

11:51 PM local time and IST: RCB (240/4 in 20 overs) beat MI (222/5 in 20 overs) by 18 runs

Phil Salt 78(36) | Suyash Sharma 2/47(4)
Sherfane Rutherford 71*(31) | Hardik Pandya 1/39(4)

That took an age to finish but finally after nearly four and a half hours the game has come to an end, the result was pretty much secured a long while before but the plethora of wides, no-balls, reviews, injury breaks and what not dragged it for what seemed like forever

However, the more important thing is that RCB have got back to winning ways and secured their third win in four game and succumbed MI to a hat-trick of losses leaving them with a lot to ponder upon

19.6 Romario Shepherd to Sherfane Rutherford, SIX MORE, Rutherford finishes on 71* off 31 but RCB will take the win as well as the two points as they get back to winning ways getting the better of MI by 18 runs! Slot ball from Romario to finish, Rutherford is seeing to too well to let that go, clears the front leg and launches his 9th six of the innings, high and handsome over long-on. Hat-trick of losses for MI, RCB move to the third spot in the table with that win

19.5 Romario Shepherd to Sherfane Rutherford, RUTHERFORD PASTES IT OVER COVER! Low full toss outside off, Rutherford reaches out for it, takes it on the full and times the pants out of that, travels all the way over the fence

19.4 Romario Shepherd to Sherfane Rutherford, wide yorker outside off, Rutherford digs that out toward cover's left but does not take the single

19.3 Romario Shepherd to Sherfane Rutherford, SMOKED! Rutherford doing himself no harm here. The half-tracker from Romario, Rutherford picked the bones out of that one and it sailed over square leg

19.2 Romario Shepherd to Sherfane Rutherford, swings and misses outside the off stump, Rutherford once again not happy with the call from the ump. Does it surprise anyone that there are no reviews left? We carry on

19.1 Romario Shepherd to Sherfane Rutherford, SWUNG AWAY FOR SIX and that is a fifty for Rutherford! Guess what, we now have a review for a no-ball. It was a high full toss from Shepherd, Rutherford swung that away over square leg with ease but he wants a no-ball too

3 cms below his waist, it is a fair delivery and MI need 39 runs off 5 balls now