Tillekaratne Dilshan plays one of his trademark scoop shots against Mumbai Indians, in Bangalore, on Tuesday (PTI)

Bangalore: Sachin Tendulkar and Ambati Rayudu clobbered the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) bowling as Mumbai Indians cruised to a nine-wicket victory at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, here, on Tuesday.

Chasing a target of 141, Mumbai reached the target with nine balls to spare. The visitors now have two wins from as many matches.

On a strip where RCB batsmen struggled to get going, Tendulkar (55 not out, 46 balls, 7x4), Ambati Rayudu (63 not out, 50 balls, 9x4) sent the RCB bowlers on a leather hunt with an undefeated 110-run second-wicket partnership from 86 balls.They were also helped by some lacklustre fielding by the home team.

It was Davy Jacobs (22) who started the charge by hitting Zaheer Khan for a couple of fours and two big sixes over long on and deep mid wicket.

Jacobs was cleaned up by Dirk Nannes. Tendulkar then took it upon himself. A signature straight drive off Abhimanyu Mithun started it all. When the spinners came on, he was quick to rock on to the back foot and hit them over deep mid wicket.

Rayudu, who was watchful for the first few balls, started with a flat-batted boundary over deep mid wicket off Mithun and then followed it up by charging down the track and hitting the bowler through the covers. The youngster beat Tendulkar to his half-century in style when he lofted Asad Pathan for a boundary over extra cover.

Considered as an India prospect till he joined the Indian Cricket League, Rayudu clipped Zaheer over mid wicket for a boundary and followed it with a lofted drive. He matched The Master stroke-for-stroke and Mumbai never looked in any sort of trouble.

The best part of the match was, however, the magnanimity shown by the Little Master after the match. The legendary cricketer again proved that he is as big-hearted a human being as he is as a cricketer when he decided to share his Man of the match award with Rayudu. (PTI)