[Watch] IPL 2025: Virat Kohli smashes Jasprit Bumrah for great maximum

Jasprit Bumrah was clobbered for a maximum on the second delivery of his spell in Match 20 of the ongoing Indian Premier League at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday, April 7, following a brilliant hit by Virat Kohli over the deep midwicket fence. It was the first Bumrah delivery that Kohli had to deal with in the current match.

On the middle-and-off channel, RCB’s star batsman wristfully launched a slightly short delivery over the fence. When Kohli eventually hit 67 runs off of just 42 deliveries, this smash was his first maximum.

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In IPL 2025, Bumrah scored 10 runs in his opening over. RCB was in a good position at 73/1 at the end of the powerplay. Finally, on the last delivery of the ninth over, Devdutt Padikkal was out for 37 (22). In his first over, Vignesh Puthur made a breakthrough.

A pair of wickets were taken in Hardik Pandya’s third over of the match. When a misdirected swipe found Naman Dhir at deep square leg, Virat Kohli was removed.

Liam Livingstone was the second batter to go. After a second-ball duck, the English batting all-rounder was removed.

For those who don’t know, Bumrah is playing in his first match since suffering a stress strain in his back during the fifth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Because of the severity of his injuries, he was unable to participate in India’s most recent Champions Trophy 2025 campaign, which the Men in Blue won.