IPL 2026, RCB vs MI 54th Match Match Report, May 10, 2026

Bhuvi magic

From the beginning it was evident that onerous lengths could be extraordinarily tough to barter on this pitch. From these lengths, the ball caught and jumped on some events, bringing the vanguard into play, and at different occasions it skidded and stored low.

After RCB opted to bowl of their first match at their second residence for the season, Bhuvneshwar struck within the first over with a hard-length ball. It hit excessive on Rickelton’s bat as he appeared to punch over mid-off, and all he managed to do was hit it to the fielder.

However there was extra to Bhuvneshwar’s magic on the evening than merely his use of the pitch. His second wicket got here off one of many nice balls of his IPL profession: a knuckle-ball outswinger that made Rohit Sharma attain for the drive, which he edged to the keeper. Subsequent ball, he went again to a conventional good size and nearer to the stumps, and located late, late swing to get Suryakumar Yadav nicking to slide for a golden duck.

MI had been 28 for 3 in three overs.

Tilak and Dhir rebuild, however MI end with a whimper

With the pitch behaving because it did, Naman Dhir and Tilak Varma started an old-school rebuild, realizing that even 180 could be a superb complete. And so they arrange completely for that ultimate push, placing on 82 off 57 balls.

However RCB dismissed each simply after they had been trying harmful. Dhir had simply struck Rasikh for a pair of pleasing back-foot fours by the off aspect when a shooter did him in. Then, within the 18th over, Bhuvneshwar dismissed Tilak, who performed on whereas searching for the news over brief high quality leg. It took away one in every of MI’s most harmful death-overs hitters with two overs remaining; they solely scored 11 runs off these two overs, as Josh Hazlewood and Rasikh stored extracting misbehaviour from arduous lengths.

Chahar and Bosch even the competition

Virat Kohli had been out for a duck in RCB’s earlier sport, the sufferer of a peach from Prince Yadav. On Sunday he was out for a golden duck; this time he appeared to impose himself on a large outswinger from Deepak Chahar, however ended up mishitting it to mid-off.

Chahar was erratic – he conceded 14 in his first over, with Jacob Bethell placing him away for back-to-back fours off his first two balls – however continued to bowl good balls. In his second over, he despatched down a jaffa that squared up Devdutt Padikkal and nicked him off, straightening after angling into the left-hander from around the wicket.

Then, within the ultimate over of the powerplay, RCB misplaced their third wicket; this time, Corbin Bosch made full use of a pitch made for his strengths. He banged it briefly, obtained the ball to rush and cramp Rajat Patidar on the pull, and the top-edged ballooned to the keeper.

Krunal revives RCB’s innings

The fourth-wicket partnership of 55 was a examine in contrasts. Bethell didn’t hit one other boundary after the 2 he’d hit off Chahar at first of his innings, and struggled to pierce the sphere whereas limping to a run-a-ball 27. On the different finish, Krunal exuded a way of certainty proper from the time he pulled Bosch for six off simply the third ball he confronted.

His dealing with of spin was notably essential to how the chase unfolded. He used his attain to comb and slog each time the possibility offered itself, and this will likely have made Suryakumar Yadav – standing in within the continued absence of Hardik Pandya with a again subject – hesitate to make use of Raghu Sharma, the legspinner MI had introduced on as their Influence Participant. As a substitute, he turned to Bawa’s navy medium; his first over went for simply eight runs, however Krunal and Jitesh Sharma took his second over, the 14th of RCB’s innings, for 16 runs.

That left RCB needing 57 off 36 balls.

A end for the ages

Jitesh, coming into this sport with a median of 8.00 for the season, performed an necessary cameo, 18 off 12 together with an attention-grabbing back-foot punch off Jasprit Bumrah within the fifteenth over, and a hooked six off Bosch within the sixteenth.

Simply as the competition appeared to be tilting RCB’s approach, although, Bosch hit again with two wickets in two balls. Jitesh sliced him into deep level’s arms, and Tim David fell for a first-baller, toe-ending an tried pull to the keeper, undone by a ball that stopped on him. MI gained extra management as Chahar conceded simply six off the seventeenth over, utilizing his slower bouncer expertly.

With 30 to get off the final three, and with Bumrah to bowl a type of three, the 18th over grew to become essential. And AM Ghazanfar practically grew to become a hero, inducing a mishit from Krunal just for Naman Dhir and Tilak Varma – converging from deep midwicket and long-on respectively – to mess up a doable relay catch by way of miscommunication.

Krunal was actively cramping at this stage, however he in some way discovered the reserves inside him to hit two sixes off the following three balls, falling to the ground in agony after finishing his photographs. A 3rd six off the ultimate ball of the over would have left RCB needing 12 off 12, however this time Tilak judged and executed the operating, juggling catch completely at long-on.

This meant Bumrah bowled the nineteenth to 2 new batters. And neither Romario Shepherd nor Rasikh had a lot of a solution to his mixture of arduous lengths and yorkers; solely three got here off the over, of which one was a leg bye.

It was the right help. All that remained was for the final-over bowler to complete it off. However the three seamers had bowled out, and Suryakumar wasn’t going to make use of a spinner. So it was Bawa who stepped up, and he did a good job beneath the circumstances; he overstepped as soon as, and there have been three wides, however these had been the results of sticking to a wide-line plan. And Shepherd struggled towards his round-the-wicket angle, dropping form whereas attempting to muscle the ball, and he ultimately fell off the third authorized ball of the over, leaving Nos. 9 and 10 to attain 10 off three balls.

On most days, you’ll again the bowling staff to shut it out. On today, Bhuvneshwar was an irresistible pressure.