Mumbai bowlers kept the Royal Challengers batsmen, at the bay, in their chase of one fifty eight and also kept their team, in the race for IPL. Even though Bangalore Royal challengers’ batsmen did not lose it completely, it proved too much, to chase at the end, where they have ,to negotiate likes of Lasith Malinga, Harbhajan Singh, and Dwayne Bravo.

Earlier Mumbai batsmen did not have many problems in facing Bangalore bowlers, where they were not posed with any threat in from their opening bowlers, but Vinay Kumar did manage to remove Sachin Tendulkar.

Jayasuriya, who returned back, to the side after being excluded in the last match, stroked some spanking boundaries and look well settled for an half – century, before getting out to R Merwe.

In came Duminy and A Rahane, who played sensibly combined with calculated aggression, which exactly the pitch required out of them.. Rahane showcased enough of his skills, to assert he is another star in making, whereas J P Duminy brought his fourth IPL half century and answered his critics, who frowned at four crore offer for his one year contract.

Bangalore Royal Challengers could not manage more than two wickets from Mumbai Indians innings and so could not put any brake in the acceleration of the Mumbai Indians, where Duminy went ballistic at the end.

Bangalore began the chase with Jacques Kallis and Virat Kohli, who struck top gear from the first over, but when things were turning out to ominous for Mumbai Indians, Dwayne Bravo removed Kallis, whereas Kohli succumbed to the new spinner in store of Mumbai by name Nanda, the lanky spinner.

Harbhajan Singh for the first time in series, made a deep impact, where he gave mere fifteen runs, in his four over spell and also two wickets at the end. Malinga, even though was expensive managed, to york Ross Taylor to pavilion.

Banaglore Royal Challenger batsmen become a perfect adjective for brilliantly throwing away wickets, where Robin Uthappa, who survived couple of close chances before, committed the same mistake and also their main cornerstone Rahul  Dravid simply staged one of the most hilarious run – outs.

Mark Boucher was only batsmen, who showed some application and strode Bangalore to one forty runs at the end; falling short of the target by mere sixteen runs, which could have achieved had their batsmen showed some patience and sense.

Mumbai Indians have kept their chase for elusive trophy on track, but for Royal Challengers the semi- final berth, appears to be a further distant dream.