Jaipur: Mumbai Indians defeated Rajasthan Royals by 100 runs in the 50th match of IPL 2025 played at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. This is Mumbai’s sixth consecutive win in the tournament. After losing the toss in this match, Mumbai Indians batted first and scored 217 runs in 20 overs losing 2 wickets. Chasing the score of 218 runs, Rajasthan Royals’ team collapsed for 117 runs in 16.1 overs and lost the match by 100 runs.
With this win, MI’s team has reached the first position with 14 points with 7 wins and 4 losses in 11 matches. With this, they have almost confirmed their claim to reach the playoffs. Talking about RR, they are in 8th place with 6 points with 3 wins and 8 losses in 11 matches. With this defeat, Rajasthan Royals’ team is out of the playoffs.
Rajasthan Royals’ batting flopped
In this match, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Suryavanshi came to open the innings for Rajasthan. On the fourth ball of the innings, Vaibhav was sent to the pavilion by Deepak Chahar on a score of 0. After this, Trent Bolt bowled Yashasvi on a personal score of 13 runs. No batsman of Rajasthan could stay on the crease and the whole team collapsed at 117 runs.
Bolt and Karan took 3-3 wickets
Jofra Archer scored the most runs for the team. He played an innings of 30 runs with 2 fours and 2 sixes in 27 balls. Apart from him, Riyan Parag contributed 16, Dhruv Jurel 11, Shivam Dubey 15 runs. For Mumbai Indians, Trent Bolt and Karan Sharma took 3-3 wickets while Jasprit Bumrah got 2 wickets. Deepak Chahar and Hardik Pandya took 1-1 wickets.
Rickelton became the Player of the Match
Earlier, Mumbai batted first and scored 217 runs in 20 overs for the loss of 2 wickets. For Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton together shared a 116-run partnership for the first wicket. In this match, Rohit Sharma scored 51 runs in 36 balls with the help of 9 fours.
Rickelton played an innings of 61 runs in 38 balls with 7 fours and 3 sixes for which he received the Player of the Match award. Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya contributed 48-48 runs. For Rajasthan, Ryan Parag and Maheth Theekshana took 1-1 wickets.
