Rajasthan Royals have defeated Mumbai Indians by 9 wickets. Playing first, MI had scored 179 runs in 20 overs. Tilak Verma and Nihal Vadhera played brilliant innings for Mumbai. The Rajasthan team, which came to chase the target, got off to a great start as Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal took the team’s score beyond 60 in the powerplay overs itself. The match was also affected by rain, but there was no impact on RR batsmen. Jos Buttler played an inning of 35 runs in 25 balls, but Jaiswal impressed the most. He crossed the 50 mark for the first time in IPL 2024, which he converted into a century. Jaiswal played an innings of 104 runs in 60 balls, during which he hit 9 fours and 7 sixes.
In the first 10 overs, Rajasthan Royals had scored 95 runs at the loss of 1 wicket. Yashasvi Jaiswal’s bat was not ready to stop. Within the next 5 overs, the team had scored 56 runs and now Rajasthan needed only 29 runs in the last 30 balls. The match had become one-sided as RR had to score only 10 runs in 18 balls to win. Sanju Samson also made an important contribution to RR’s victory by playing an inning of 38 runs in 27 balls. In the end, Jaiswal hit the winning shot by hitting a four and ensured Rajasthan’s victory by 9 wickets.
Mumbai Indians bowling is in disarray
When the match started again after the rain, the Mumbai Indians bowlers started getting beaten more. The only wicket for Mumbai was taken by Piyush Chawla, who gave 33 runs in 4 overs. Nuwan Thushara made his IPL debut in this match, but he gave away 28 runs in just 3 overs. Hardik Pandya is trying to be very active in bowling, but could not take any wicket. Even the sharp bowling of Jasprit Bumrah and Gerald Coetzee could not do much for Mumbai this time.