The Indian Premier League is in its 16th edition and the two league giants Mumbai Indians and Royals Challengers Banglore have clashed many times to provide fans with great entertainment. By far, the most thrilling matchup in every IPL has been between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians. Even though Mumbai has overwhelmingly outperformed the Challengers, their clashes have been the most interesting. Mumbai Indians have dominated over Challengers in all the matches they played. Following are the top 5 closest encounters between Mumbai and Banglore.
1. MI vs RCB, 2010
In the 15th match of the 3rd edition of the Indian Premier League, Mumbai set a 165-run target while batting first with the help of Shikhar Dhawan’s 41. While chasing RCB crushed the bowling of Mumbai and when Rahul Dravid came to bat, it looked RCB will chase down the target with ease. Dravid’s 71-run inning went in vain when RCB fell short by just 2 runs.
2. MI vs RCB, 2013
In the very 2nd match of the 2013 season of the league, RCB batted first and with Gayle’s storm of 92 runs scored a reasonable score of 156 runs. On behalf of Mumbai, Dinesh Karthik strived to take his team to win with his solid 60-run inning but failed and RCB won the match by 2 runs.
3. MI vs RCB, 2015
The rivalry went really close as RCB almost chased down the target of 209 runs in the 16th match of the 2015 season of IPL. Batting for the RCB, David Wiese struggled to guide his team to win but unfortunately failed and fell short of 18 runs. As a result, Mumbai won the match.
4. MI vs RCB, 2019
In the 7th match in the 2019 season of the league, Mumbai commanded the RCB to chase 187 runs while batting first. The RCB batsmen took the match really close to winning but however fell short of mere 6 runs in the last over of the match.
5. MI vs RCB, 2020
One of the very entertaining matches that came in the 2020 season of the league between RCB and MI. RCB gave Mumbai a gigantic target of 201 runs. Mumbai batters almost chased down the target and ended the match in a tie with equal runs. Although RCB won the match by super over.
