Highest Team Total at Wankhede Stadium in IPL: Batting first, Royal Challengers Bangalore have scored 240 runs. Bengaluru has created history as it has scored the highest score of IPL at Wankhede Stadium. For the Bengaluru team who came to bat first, 3 batsmen in the form of Virat Kohli, Phil Salt and Rajat Patidar scored half-centuries. Virat scored 50 runs, which was the 65th half-century of his IPL career.
RCB created history, broke its own record
Royal Challengers Bangalore have scored 240 runs in this match, which is the highest score by any team at Wankhede Stadium in IPL. Bengaluru has created this record by improving its own record. In the year 2015, Bengaluru had scored 235 runs on the same ground, which remained the highest score of IPL at Wankhede ground for 11 years, but now it has been demolished by RCB itself. Mumbai Indians is at third place in this list, which has scored 234 runs here.
Highest score at Wankhede
- 240 runs – RCB (vs Mumbai) – 2026
- 235 runs – RCB (vs Mumbai) – 2015
- 234 runs – MI (vs Delhi) – 2024
- 230 runs – PBKS (vs Mumbai) – 2017
Mumbai’s bowling collapsed badly
Virat Kohli and Phil Salt gave an ideal start to Royal Challengers Bangalore. Both had scored 71 runs in the powerplay itself. There was an opening partnership of 120 runs between Virat and Salt. Salt played a brilliant inning of 78 runs in 36 balls, in which he hit 6 fours and 6 sixes. Captain Rajat Patidar created havoc as soon as he arrived and completed his fifty in 17 balls, making it the second fastest fifty for RCB. He scored 53 runs in 20 balls.
On the other hand, Virat Kohli played an inning of 50 runs in 38 balls. Tim David also batted brilliantly in the death overs and played a cameo inning of 34 runs in 16 balls, taking Bengaluru to the historic score of 240 runs.
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