{"id":47458,"date":"2026-05-11T07:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47458"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:39:20","slug":"rcb-go-top-of-ipl-table-after-thrilling-win-over-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/rcb-go-top-of-ipl-table-after-thrilling-win-over-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"RCB go top of IPL table after thrilling win over Mumbai\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency May 16:<\/strong>\u00a0 Royal Challengers Bengaluru climbed to the top of the Indian Premier League standings after defeating Mumbai Indians by two wickets in a thrilling contest on Sunday night. The defeat also ended Mumbai\u2019s hopes of reaching the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a target of 167 runs, Bengaluru reached 167\/8 in the final over of the match. Krunal Pandya starred with the bat, scoring a brilliant 73 runs off 46 balls, including five sixes and four boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Bethell contributed 27 runs, while Jitesh Sharma scored 18. Devdutt Padikkal added 12 runs, captain Rajat Patidar made eight, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar remained unbeaten on seven runs.<\/p>\n<p>For Mumbai, Corbin Bosch was the standout bowler, taking four wickets for 26 runs in four overs, including a maiden. Deepak Chahar claimed two wickets, while Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Raj Bawa picked up one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, after being invited to bat first in Raipur, Mumbai posted 166\/7 in their 20 overs. Tilak Varma top-scored with 57 runs from 42 balls, hitting three fours and two sixes. Naman Dhir added 47 runs, while Rohit Sharma scored 22.<\/p>\n<p>For Bengaluru, Bhuvneshwar Kumar impressed with the ball, taking four wickets for 23 runs. Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Salam and Romario Shepherd took one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Bengaluru moved to the top of the table with 14 points from 11 matches, while Mumbai remained ninth with six points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency May 16:\u00a0 Royal Challengers Bengaluru climbed to the top of the Indian Premier League standings after defeating Mumbai Indians by two wickets in a thrilling contest on Sunday night. The defeat also ended Mumbai\u2019s hopes of reaching the playoffs. Chasing a target of 167 runs, Bengaluru reached 167\/8 in the final over of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-47458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news","tag-ipl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47461,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47458\/revisions\/47461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}