IPL 2023: Captain Faf Duplessis made a special record in the MI vs RCB match. The 54th match of IPL 2023 is being played between Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (MI vs RCB) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.
Virat Kohli was sent back to the pavilion in the very first over:-
In this match, Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bowl first. Although the team has already returned Virat Kohli to the pavilion in the first over.
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But we have got to see a good partnership between Maxwell and Plessis. At the same time, RCB captain Faf Duplessis has made a record in his name in this match.
Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf Duplessis has completed 1000 runs for RCB while playing against Mumbai Indians.
Plessis has completed 1000 runs in IPL while playing for Bangalore. However, till the time of writing the news against MI, Plessis is playing on 34 runs.
At the same time, Plessis is also the top run scorer in IPL 2023 this year and is also the Orange Cap holder. Captain Sahab’s season so far has been fantastic. Plessis is scoring runs in almost every match.
The 6th batsman to do this for RCB:-
Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf Duplessis has scored 1000 runs while playing for Bangalore in IPL and has also become the sixth batsman to do so.
At the same time, there are five other batsmen in this list who have done this. Virat Kohli is in first place on this list.
Whereas AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Jacques Kallis, and Glenn Maxwell have accomplished this feat before Faf.
Although Virat Kohli has scored the most runs in IPL history and he has been playing for RCB since the beginning.
IPL has been great for Faf Duplessis. In his IPL career, he has scored 3959 runs in 120 innings of 127 matches at an average of 36.66 and a strike rate of 133.84.
These figures of Faf are till writing the news. Because he is still a part of IPL and is playing against MI. Although he has played a brilliant half-century against Mumbai in IPL 2023.
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The Playing XI of MI vs RCB:-
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): 1. Rohit Sharma (c), 2. Ishan Kishan (wk), 3. Cameron Green, 4. Suryakumar Yadav, 5. Tim David, 6. Nehal Wadhera, 7. Chris Jordan, 8. Piyush Chawla, 9. Akash Madhwal, 10. Kumar Kartikeya, 11. Jason Behrendorff.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): 1. Virat Kohli, 2. Faf du Plessis (c), 3. Anuj Rawat, 4. Glenn Maxwell, 5. Mahipal Lomror, 6. Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7. Wanindu Hasaranga, 8. Harshal Patel, 9. Vijaykumar Vaishak, 10. Mohammad Siraj, 11. Josh Hazlewood.
