Royal Challengers Bangalore avoided a straight 8-match defeat as Glenn Maxwell, with his batting, and Harshal Patel, with this bowling, lit up the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. RCB’s clinical performance helped them beat a formidable Mumbai Indians by a healthy margin of 54 runs.

While Maxwell scored 56 off 37 balls and chipped in with two wickets, Harshal Patel picked up a hat-trick and ended the match with figures of 4/17 in 3.1 overs.

The Indian, the current purple cap holder, removed Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard and Rahul Chahar off successive deliveries to defend a target of 165 without much hassle.

Here are some of the other stats from the match:

– This is the first time that the Bangalore-based franchise bowled out the Rohit Sharma-led team in the lucrative T20 league.

– The first time that RCB has defeated MI twice in a season in the IPL.

– The last time MI lost three successive matches was in 2018 when they started off with three defeats in the first three games.

-RCB have batted first in each of their last seven straight defeats in the UAE. However, in this match, they emerged victoriously.

Most wickets by an uncapped player in a season

Yuzvendra Chahal 23 wickets (RCB, 2015)

Harshal Patel 23 wickets (RCB, 2021)*

Sreenath Aravind 21 wickets (RCB, 2011)

Siddarth Kaul 21 wickets (SRH, 2018)

Hat tricks for RCB in IPL

Praveen Kumar vs RR Bengaluru 2010

Samuel Badree vs MI Bengaluru 2017

Harshal Patel vs MI Dubai 2021*

Australian Maxwell was adjudged the man of the match for his all-round performance. He credited his reverse sweeps for being able to score runs easily.

“It was a nice day. We pretty much did everything right tonight. Virat and KS got us through the powerplay and set up a really good foundation for us. I have worked on it a lot over the years and it has become a strength for me [on his reverse sweeps and hits]. I wanted to cash in hitting to the shorter side with the wind going that way as well. To be able to have a full pre-season with my state side Victoria, put in a lot of work on my bowling and starting to see the rewards now,” Maxwell said in a post-match presentation.