Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Preview & Prediction | IPL 2025 | League Stage
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Always a marquee fixture in the IPL, Mumbai Indians host Royal Challengers Bengaluru with both teams coming off the back of defeats.
Date & time: Monday April 7th 2025: USA PT – 7:00am / USA ET – 10:00am / UK – 3:00pm
Venue: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, India
Weather: Extremely hot conditions at the start of play with sunshine and temperatures of 33c.
How to watch: USA – Willow TV / UK – Sky Sports & Sky Go / Australia – Foxtel
Mumbai Indians Preview: Home comforts key
Mumbai Indians defeated Kolkata Knight Riders in their first home fixture of the season, but since then have been beaten away by Lucknow Super Giants. Of Mumbai’s four games played so far, three of those have been on the road and all have ended in defeat, whilst their sole home fixture saw them win. They’ll need to maintain that form at the Wankhede Stadium to keep themselves in play-off contention.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Preview: How will they respond
Royal Challengers Bengaluru saw their 100% record in this season’s IPL come to an end last Wednesday at the hands of Gujarat Titans. They failed to defend 169, falling victim to Jos Buttler’s fireworks as the Titans triumphed by eight wickets with 2.1 overs remaining. Now the key is for RCB to shake that off and bounce back at the first time of asking.
Mumbai Indians Betting Analysis
Mumbai Indians have been afforded a huge boost by the news that fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah will be available to make his first appearance of the 2025 IPL against RCB. He is arguably the best all-format bowler in the world and is simply dynamite in T20 cricket. Bumrah’s ability should see him hit the ground running and take over 1.5 match wickets here, so back that outcome via the ‘Bowler Total Match Wickets’ market.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Betting Analysis
Royal Challengers Bengaluru need their batters to be on song when taking into account that they’ll be going up against the likes of Bumrah. It’s the sort of challenge that RCB batter Virat Kohli should thrive upon and if anyone can take on Bumrah, he can. So far, Kohli has racked up 97 runs over the course of three innings and bettors should consider backing him to finish as RCB’s top bowler in this encounter.
Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Expert Prediction
The addition of Bumrah is a true gamechanger for Mumbai Indians and certainly alters the context of this match-up. His stardust elevates the home side’s bowling attack massively and makes things significantly tougher for Royal Challengers Bengaluru, especially with home advantage in the favour of Mumbai.
Although Mumbai Indians may have lost out in Lucknow, they still showed positive signs and a similar batting performance should afford them more success at the Wankhede Stadium, so consider backing them to narrowly get the better of RCB.
Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru Top Tip: Mumbai Indians to win
