Virat Kohli thanked Mumbai Indians for defeating Delhi Capitals in their last league game, which resulted in RCB securing a berth in the playoffs.
“It was unbelievable. The emotions in the changing room were unbelievable. Thank you, Mumbai, we will remember this one,” Kohli said in a release. “It was so good, I think first of all it was really nice to see that everyone was here from the start of the game, so we watched it together, we were all shouting for every wicket that Mumbai got and then when they are chasing every boundary. It’s good for everyone to watch together and then the celebration towards the end was awesome to be a part of.”
Expressing his happiness and gratitude to the Mumbai Indians, RCB skipper Du Plessis said: “The last game we played we felt almost like we played our best game of cricket of this campaign so far and that is how you want to enter the knockout stages, so we needed someone to do us a favour and Mumbai did that for us, we are very thankful for that.”
Glenn Maxwell said that he has an intuition that RCB are very near to making their trophy dream a reality. “Amazing result for us tonight. There is just one small step in us going further, we are that close to making history for RCB in this tournament. We needed another team, but from now on it’s all us.”
RCB will now face the new entrants of this season, Lucknow Super Giants, on May 25 in the Eliminator, which will be played at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens stadium.