IPL 2026 – MI vs RCB Phil Salt assault completes the batting set for RCB before home stretch

Next ball, Santner overcompensated and went on the fuller aspect and Salt pounced on it with such ferocity that the ball sailed over the lengthy-on boundary and into the second tier. This time, Kohli went throughout and punched Salt’s glove in celebration.

The third one, once more brief, was despatched the ball crusing into the stands courtesy Salt’s brute energy. Three sixes in a row.

The MI fielders’ shoulders had began to drop and the raised eyebrows of captain Hardik Pandya had been seen from a distance. But Salt was not carried out. The fourth was given air, and was pitched exterior off, and Salt mowed it down with a slog sweep for 4. Nothing got here off the final two, however Salt had made it a 22-run over.

“Some of these grounds aren’t the most bowler-friendly, so you have to keep the mentality that you will keep going at the opposition, and don’t forget your assets as a player”

Phil Salt

The actual impression of that assault was that Jasprit Bumrah, who had bowled the third over for simply ten runs, needed to bowl the sixth too.

Even although Salt was carrying the RCB innings virtually on his personal, the Wankhede crowd belted out chants of “Aarceebee, Aarceebee” and “Koh-lee, Koh-lee” although the star batter appeared removed from his finest. But that was hardly going to have an effect on Salt.

RCB had been 65 for 0 with one powerplay over to go, and MI had been so determined that Hardik gave a second over to Bumrah in the powerplay. Bumrah conceded simply six, and Santner pulled issues again with 4 runs in the seventh, however Hardik then turned to legspinner Mayank Markande, forward of Shardul Thakur.

By now, Salt had confronted 24 balls and had his eye in firmly, ominously for ME. If it was all muscle and flashy batswing in Santner’s first over, it was timing and the means to seek out gaps in opposition to Markande in his first over. The sizzling streak of 4, 4, 4 was accomplished with a disdainful six to the leg aspect off one other brief supply.

Kohli was scratchy, going simply over 130 at the different finish, so Salt’s knock was all the most vital on a flat pitch the place runs had been going to move in the chase too, particularly with much less anticipated when RCB had been going to bowl. It was the Wankhede anyway.

“Some of these grounds aren’t the most bowler-friendly, so you have to keep the mentality that you will keep going at the opposition,” Salt stated on the broadcast after being named the Player of the Match. “And don’t forget your assets as a player, it’s about being a match-winner, isn’t it? I know I can’t get runs every game, nobody can.”