Top 3 player battles to watch out for in RCB vs MI clash

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and Mumbai Indians (MI) will face each other in the 20^th game of the ongoing Indian Premier League 2025 (IPL 2025). The game will be played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Monday, April 7, at 7:30 PM (IST). It will be a crucial game for both teams considering their respective positions in the tournament standings.

The five-time champions, Mumbai Indians are placed in the seventh spot on the table, with only one win and three defeats in their four games so far. They are coming off a 12-run defeat against LSG. On the other hand, RCB is in the third spot on the standings, with two wins and a defeat in their three games. They lost to GT by 8 wickets in the last game; a win in this game will help them move to the spot of the table.

With that said, here we’ll have a look at the top 3 player battles to watch out for in the upcoming MI vs RCB clash at Wankhede in Mumbai.

Virat Kohli vs Trent Boult

The former RCB skipper and batting stalwart, Virat Kohli and the veteran MI pacer Trent Boult have faced each other on several occasions in the IPL history. The player battle between two veterans of their league has been quite interesting, with almost an equal share of success for both.

Since 2015, Virat Kohli has scored 74 runs off 63 balls against Trent Boult, with seven fours and four sixes while the New Zealander has dismissed Kohli on one occasion in IPL 2023, alongside bowling 31 dot balls.

Rohit Sharma vs Bhuvneshwar Kumar

The MI batting stalwart and five-time IPL winning skipper, Rohit Sharma has faced the veteran RCB pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar in every season since IPL 2012 except for the 2018 edition. This player battle has been quite tough to see as both have been equally dominant in this face-off.

Rohit has scored 85 runs off 64 balls against Bhuvneshwar Kumar, with nine fours and four sixes, having a strike rate of 132.8. On the other hand, Bhuvi has dismissed Rohit once in this face-off during the 2014 edition of the tournament. Besides that, the RCB pacer has also bowled 27 dot balls to Rohit Sharma in this player battle.

Phil Salt vs Deepak Chahar

One of the interesting player battles to watch out for in the MI vs RCB game will be between the star RCB opener Phil Salt and MI pacer Deepak Chahar. The MI pacer has dominated Salt in their short but interesting head-to-head face-off in the Indian Premier League 2023.

Salt could score only 7 runs off 9 balls against Chahar while getting dismissed on both occasions they faced off in the same edition. So, Chahar’s dominance could be a good sign for MI in their quest to get rid of Phil Salt early in the powerplay phase of the innings.

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