Mumbai Indians created history at Wankhede Stadium against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Tuesday, becoming the first team to pull off three successful run-chases of 200 runs or more in a single IPL season.
In their match against PBKS, MI chased down the target of 215 set by their opponents on Wednesday, which is the third-highest successful run-chase in IPL history and MI's second-highest successful run-chase in the league's history.
Though Virat was dismissed for a golden duck in the match, he made up a bit for it with his electric presence on the field. He took two catches in the match to dismiss young top-order batters Yashasvi Jaiswal and Devdutt Padikkal, who were threatening to take the match away from RCB during a
Ravindra Jadeja scalped him enroute to picking up three wickets during the innings. The Chennai run chase was headed by Devon Conway's effortless 77 runs (57b, 12x4, 1x6). This win puts Chennai third in the standings, trailing Rajasthan and Lucknow on run rate. MS Dhoni's calm leadership
During the unsuccessful run-chase of 176 runs against Rajasthan Royals at MA Chidambaram Stadium on Wednesday, MS did not run like he used to, which was also the case during the team's intra-squad practice game ahead of the IPL. Dhoni was also seen wearing a kneecap in the side's pre-season
Rajasthan Royals (RR) skipper Sanju Samson said that the final two overs during the run-chase were tense and a side is "never safe with MS Dhoni" as "nothing works against him".
The highest run chase in IPL history was scripted by Rajasthan Royals against Punjab Kings in the 2020 edition of the cash-rich league. The inaugural IPL champions chased down a 224-run target set by Punjab Kings in the match at Sharjah. In what went down as one of the league's most memorabl
Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill fired all the cylinders right from the very first ball. Even though Saha lost his wicket in the last ball of the fourth over, he had already achieved the task he was asked to do.
GG had set up a target of 189 for RCB, but the latter chased it down in just 15.3 overs. This successful run-chase gave a huge boost to RCB's net run rate and pushed GG to the bottom of the table.
Royal Challengers Bangalore's (RCB) winless run in the Women's Premier League (WPL) continued as they sunk to their fifth straight loss after the pair of Jess Jonassen and Marizanne Kapp downed their opponents' fighting bowling unit in a last-over thriller at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai
At 28/1 at the close of play, New Zealand, if they make the required runs, would complete the highest successful run chase in Test cricket at Hagley Oval, beating Australia's 201/3 in February 2016