IPL 6 - Game 2 -Royal Challengers Bangalore(RCB) Vs Mumbai Indians(MI) - Thursday April 4,2013

Mumbai Indians(MI)won the toss and chose to field.Captains Ricky Ponting and Virat Kohli during the coin-toss before the match

Scorecard
RCB scored 156/5 in 20 Overs
Chris Gayle 92*(in 58 Balls with 4x11 and 6x5)

Virat Kohli 24(in 14 Balls with 4x4 and 6x1)
Arun Karthik 19*(in 19 balls with 4x3)
Wicket Takers(MI)
Jasprit Bumrah          3-32(4 Overs)

Mitchell Johnson       1-15(3 Overs)
Harbhajan Singh        1-2194 Overs)
MI scored 154/5 in 20 Overs
 Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar opened the innings for Mumbai and together, they put up a half-century stand of 52 Runs for the first wicket

Ricky Ponting 28(in 33 Balls with 4x1 and 6x1)
Sachin Tendulkar 23(in 19 Balls with 4x4)
Dinesh Karthik 60(in 37 Balls with 4x3 and 6x4)
Wicket Takers(RCB)
Vinay Kumar           3-27(4 Overs)
Murali Kartik           1-24(4 Overs)
Match Result -Royal Challengers Bangalore(RCB) won by 2 runs
Player of the Match -Chris Gayle(RCB)

Chris Gayle, RCB team owner Vijay Mallya, and Virat Kohli celebrate after the game, Royal Challengers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians, IPL, Bangalore, April 4, 2013

IPL 6 - Game 2- RCB Vs MI Match Highlights

• 38 years 106 days… Ricky Ponting’s age – third oldest to captain a side for the first time in an IPL match, after Shane Warne (38 years 219 days) and Anil Kumble (38 years 196 days).

• Chris Gayle scores his 16th fifty and now shares the record of most fifty-plus scores in the IPL with

           Jacques Kallis and Gautam Gambhir

• Mumbai Indians have lost an IPL match by two runs or less for the 3rd time 

• RCB's 2-run triumph is their narrowest victory-margin in terms of runs at the IPL, bettering their three-run win over Deccan Chargers at Bangalore on May 3, 2008.

• Virat Kohli (50) has become the second Bangalore player after Chris Gayle (108) to complete 50 sixes or more at the IPL

• Chris Gayle, with 134 sixes, has extended his record for most sixes at the IPL. Suresh Raina, with 97 sixes, has the next best tally.

• Chris Gayle's unbeaten 92 off 58 balls is the highest individual score by a Bangalore player against Mumbai Indians at the IPL, eclipsing his 89 at Chennai on May 27, 2011(Only three players have recorded more runs in an innings than Gayle against Mumbai Indians at the IPL - the two centurions being Adam Gilchrist's 109 not out for Deccan Chargers at Mumbai on April 27, 2008 and Yusuf Pathan's 100 for Rajasthan Royals at Mumbai on March 13, 2010)

• Shaun Marsh, Jacques Kallis and Gayle, with four fifties each, share a record for most fifties against Mumbai Indians at the IPL

• Chris Gayle is the top run-scorer against Mumbai Indians at the IPL - 363 in seven matches at an average of 72.60, including four fifties, surpassing Jacques Kallis' tally of 342 (42.75) in ten matches

• Chris Gayle has become the first batsman to register 20 sixes against Mumbai Indians at the IPL.  Adam Gilchrist had scored 16 sixes in eight matches against Mumbai Indians.

• Both Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore have won 6 games each against each other out of 12 contested at the IPL.