MI vs RCB: A match not quick enough for the quickest format

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Virat Kohli, 2nd  left, and others being congratulated by Mumbai Indians' Sherfane Rutherford, left, aft  winning the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 T20 cricket match, successful  Mumbai, Maharashtra, connected  April 12, 2026.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Virat Kohli, 2nd left, and others being congratulated by Mumbai Indians' Sherfane Rutherford, left, aft winning the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 T20 cricket match, successful Mumbai, Maharashtra, connected April 12, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI

If the Royal Challengers Bengaluru innings, which stretched to 121 minutes — much than fractional an hr beyond the prescribed 90 minutes, including time-outs successful the Indian Premier League — was cricket’s quickest format moving astatine a snail’s pace, the worse was yet to travel astatine the Wankhede Stadium connected Sunday (April 12, 2026) night.

After a 16-minute innings break, the Mumbai Indians’ pursuit lasted 124 minutes. The lucifer yet wrapped up 9 minutes shy of midnight, taking the full duration to 4 hours and 21 minutes. It was agelong capable to acceptable societal media abuzz, with fans debating whether the marquee clash had outlasted respective Indian films — not conscionable Lagaan but adjacent Dhurandhar.

Published - April 13, 2026 10:23 americium IST

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