Mumbai Indians and Bengaluru are pitted against each other in today's crucial match of IPL. Today's match is very important for the two teams Mumbai Indians and RCB as these two teams have not started the season well at all. In the first innings RCB batted against Mumbai Indians and in the first innings RCB managed to score 196 runs against Mumbai Indians. Bengaluru scored 196 runs and the target for Mumbai Indians was 197 runs. Mumbai Indians are currently batting with a target of 197 runs where they have made a great start. The two batsmen Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan have been able to score close to 90 runs in the first seven overs so far. Mumbai Indians only need a little more than 100 runs to win, I think Mumbai Indians can chase this easy run and win very easily.
I would say a target of 197 runs would have been enough to win if Bengaluru's bowlers could have performed well in this match. But the performance of Bengaluru's bowlers was very poor in this match. The Bengaluru team is going to lose badly in the match due to the poor performance of the bowlers. Bengaluru team's condition is very bad this season. The team has won only 1 match so far. Despite having a strong squad, the team is lagging behind only because of the lack of experienced bowlers in the squad.
Mumbai collected 181 runs after losing 3 wickets in 14 overs. SUryakumar yadav played a brilliant innings of 52 runs off 19 balls today. Mumbai need only 16 runs from 36 balls.
Royal Challengers Bangalore team lost four matches in a row. Bengaluru team is now at the ninth place in the table after losing 5 out of 6 matches. And most of the matches were lost by Bengaluru due to poor bowling.
Bengaluru lost against Chennai, Mumbai, Rajasthan and Kolkata due to their poor bowling. Bengaluru team lost against LSG only because of bad batting. Bengaluru's batsmen set a decent target of 183 runs against Kolkata. The Kolkata team reached the target of victory in 16.5 overs, losing only 3 wickets.
If the performance of the bowlers does not improve, there is no doubt that the Bengaluru team will be at the bottom of the points table this season. Bengaluru management has completely failed to build a stable squad despite spending a lot of money.