Kohli's unbeaten 82 and Faf du Plessis' 73 helped Royal Challengers Bangalore register a comprehensive eight-wicket win over Mumbai Indians at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday to start their IPL 2023 campaign with a victory.
Batting first, Sri Lanka put in a high score of 196 losing 5 wickets which New Zealand tied with the comprehensive performance of NZ batters Daryl Mitchell's 66 off 44 balls & Mark Chapman's 33 off 23 balls and effective 10 runs off 4 runs by all-rounder Ish Sodhi in the end.
MI finished their innings at 171/7 with Tilak being the one-man army, unbeaten at 84 off 46 balls, with nine fours and four sixes. Arshad Khan was unbeaten at 15 off 9 balls. The duo put on 48 for the eighth wicket.
SRH skipper Bhuvneshwar Kumar said at the toss, "We will bowl first, looks like a good batting wicket. Will take advantage with the chase. I'll try and do best for the team. Farooqi, Harry Brook, Adil Rashid, Glenn Phillips are our four foreigners," said Bhuvneshwar at the toss.
Nitish Rana reflected back on the match after losing against PBKS in their first match of the IPL. Nitish looked back at his decisions and said, "I just felt like going with my five main bowlers. They batted well, and judged the wicket better than us. Anything could've happened if the rain d