TIL Desk Sports/ Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli praised Mumbai Indians’s death bowling, saying it ensured his team fell 20 runs short of a par-score in their IPL game in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
After restricting the Royal Challengers to 164 for six, thanks to their effective death bowling, led by pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah (3/14), Mumbai Indians rode on Suryakumar Yadav’s blistering 79 to chase down the target with five wickets and as many balls to spare.
“It was a strange phase of batting out there (in the last five overs); everything we hit went to the fielders and right into the hands as well. These things happen on the field. “They bowled in good areas and they bowled in right channels in the last five overs and we were 20 runs short of what could have been a par-score,” Kohli said, at the post-match presentation.
