Rohit Sharma lauds the Positives from Mumbai's first win in IPL

Rohit Sharma lauds the Positives from Mumbai’s first win in IPL: After four consecutive losses, Mumbai Indians won their first match in the IPL by defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore by 18 runs at Bangalore last night. Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma was a relieved man during the post-match presentation and lauded his team’s positive display.

Rohit said The way we batted was brilliant, we were positive all throughout. Finally putting everything was good to see and we got to a good score. The bowlers did a very good job in the end, fantastic in the end as there was dew. There was pressure on us after losing four out of four. We were positive to start off and finished off really well. (Lasith) Malinga wanted to prove a point against this quality line-up, not just him everyone bowled well – Bhajji (Harbhajan) and (Mitchell) McClenaghan as he got Kohli’s wicket.

On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli has expressed disappointment with the loss and said that his batsmen should have a better approach and vowed to improve on their opening stand. He also applauded the efforts of AB de Villiers and David Wiese.

Kohli said It was entertaining how AB (de Villiers) and (David) Wiese played it out in the end. A lot of things went wrong except for what those two did. We should have had a better approach in our batting. We need guys to play the way AB did, Wiese also backed himself and played positive cricket. Some of our guys got out in unlucky ways at the wrong times. We have a lot of things to look at, including the bowling. We bank on our opening stand and the start we get, that’s one area we need to improve in as well. We gave too many extras and we need to look at that. We need to look at one game at a time.