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Suryakumar Yadav's mediocre tally successful the IPL 2026 continued connected Sunday, arsenic the Mumbai Indians batter was dismissed for a first-ball duck successful the archetypal innings of his team's lucifer against defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB). Surya fell connected the past shot of the 3rd over, giving Bhuvneshwar Kumar his 2nd wicket successful 2 balls. The seasoned pacer bowled a afloat transportation extracurricular disconnected stump with capable question disconnected the aboveground to occupation the batter. Suryakumar shuffled crossed and went for an attacking drive, but lone managed a heavy extracurricular edge. Virat Kohli, stationed astatine archetypal slip, dived debased to his close and completed the drawback arsenic Mumbai Indians slipped further into trouble.Just 1 shot earlier, Bhuvneshwar had besides dismissed Rohit Sharma, who was caught down by Jitesh Sharma.
In 11 matches this season, Suryakumar has scored 195 runs astatine a onslaught complaint of 144.44.The right-handed batter was Mumbai Indians’ highest run-scorer past play with 717 runs successful 16 matches.Earlier, Rajat Patidar won the flip and elected to vessel archetypal for RCB successful the IPL clash astatine the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium successful Raipur.
RCB came into the lucifer aft consecutive defeats against Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants, which pushed them down to 4th spot connected the points table.Mumbai Indians, meanwhile, entered the crippled aft a triumph implicit LSG wherever they chased down 229. However, MI remained successful ninth spot and needed a triumph to enactment live successful the tournament.“We volition vessel first. Pretty obvious, the aboveground is bully and hard. We volition effort to restrict them and spell connected the chase.
Conditions are not unfamiliar, to beryllium honest. Good supporters and large outfield, I would say, and everyone is looking guardant to the game. We are going with the aforesaid team. Yes, we had a mates of losses, but we privation to absorption connected ourselves alternatively than the opposition,” Patidar said during the toss.“We are beauteous assured to bat first. Big ground, achromatic ungraded wicket and runs connected the committee volition ever beryllium unit connected the different team. We are going with the aforesaid team. We person ever had a bully chat astir the bowling. It's harsh connected the bowlers. We support trying to amended and get amended each day,” MI skipper Suryakumar Yadav said.
