28 March,2019 07:14 PM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
Hardik Pandya
Mumbai Indians beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by six runs to open their account in the IPL 2019.
Team India's captain and vice-captain go head-to-head, who do you think will win tonight?
The king of Chinnaswamy, Virat Kohli makes his way to the stadium.
Virat Kohli's RCB has won the toss and they will bowl first.
Playing 11 from both the teams:
RCB: 1 Virat Kohli (capt), 2 Parthiv Patel (wk), 3 Moeen Ali, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Shimron Hetmyer, 6 Shivam Dube, 7 Colin de Grandhomme, 8 Navdeep Saini, 9 Yuzvendra Chahal, 10 Umesh Yadav, 11 Mohammed Siraj
MUMBAI INDIANS: Rohit Sharma (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Kieron Pollard, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Krunal Pandya, 8 Mayank Markande, 9 Mitchell McClenaghan, 10 Lasith Malinga, 11 Jasprit Bumrah
The combo of Malinga and Bumrah for Mumbai Indians tonight is definitely making MI fans excited.
Some heated arguments happening on a mis-hit by Rohit Sharma that went for four between Kevin Pietersen and Sanjay Manjrekar,
Yuzvendra Chahal gets the breakthrough, Quinton de Kock goes trying an absurd reverse sweep.
RCB get the big fish! Rohit Sharma walks back after playing a poor shot on 48 runs from 33 balls
Yuvraj Singh rolls back the years with three sixes in three balls, but Yuzvendra Chahal has the last laugh with the left-hander's wicket in the next ball.
Yuzvendra Chahal shows his class, makes Mumbai Indians struggle at the death.
Hardik Pandya unleashes his big hits in the final overs. Mumbai Indians look good for a big score.
Rohit Sharma gets the first wicket for Mumbai Indians with the run out of Moeen Ali.
Virat Kohli looks like a man on a mission. The best batsman is off to a flyer.
Parthiv Patel Chota Gayle or not? How many out there agree with her analysis?
Has Yuvraj Singh just dropped the match for Mumbai Indians?
Hardik Pandya's reaction after hitting the biggest six of IPL 2019.
And while Kohli and ABD go after the target, Twitter is like:
Virat Kohli perishes after completing 5000 IPL career runs.
It's all on AB de Villiers' shoulders now for Royal Challengers Bangalore.
AB de Villiers changes gears, hits Slinga Malinga for back-to-back sixes.
AB de Villiers on fire! hits back-to-back sixes again, this time to Hardik Pandya.
Malinga keeps his nerves, Mumbai Indians wins by 6 runs.
Umpires miss the no ball on the last delivery?