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ty overcomes Badree hat-trick
ty overcomes Badree hat-trick
Royal Challengers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians, IPL 2017, Bengaluru
Mumbai Indians 145 for 6 (Pollard 70, Krunal 37*, Badree 4-9) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 142 for 5 (Kohli 62, McClenaghan 2-20) by four wickets
Samuel Badree sneaked a googly through Rohit Sharma's defences to bring up a hat-trick in the third over of Mumbai Indians' innings
A drier-than-usual Chinnaswamy Stadium pitch produced a low-scoring contest that included a 59-ball spell without a boundary and a Powerplay hat-trick by a legspinner. That legspinner, Samuel Badree, took 4 for 9 on his Royal Challengers Bangalore debut, and at the end of his four-over quota, Mumbai Indians, chasing 143, were 33 for 5 in eight overs.
Badree, though, was to end up on the losing side. The match-winner was another Trinidadian, Kieron Pollard, who scored a brilliantly calculated 70 off 47 balls and added 93 for the sixth wicket with Krunal Pandya to consign Royal Challengers to their third defeat in four games.
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