Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians: The 38th match of IPL 2024 was played between the teams of Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians. In this match played at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan Royals won by 9 wickets. In this match, Rajasthan Royals team performed brilliantly and achieved the 7th win of the season. With this victory, Rajasthan Royals team has come very close to the playoffs. At the same time, Mumbai got its 5th defeat of the season.
Mumbai Indians had decided to bat first
Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya won the toss in this match and decided to bat first. But the team had a very bad start. Mumbai had lost the first 4 wickets for 52 runs. After this, Tilak Verma and Nehal Vadhera took over the team’s innings and scored 179 runs on the board. In this innings, Tilak Verma scored the maximum 65 runs for Mumbai team. Whereas, Nehal Vadhera contributed 49 runs. On the other hand, Sandeep Sharma took maximum 5 wickets for Rajasthan. Apart from these, Trent Boult got 2 successes.
Rajasthan batsmen chased the target easily
Rajasthan Royals got the target of 180 runs. But this target proved to be small in front of Rajasthan batsmen. Sanju Samson’s team achieved the target at the loss of only 1 wicket. In this match, a brilliant century innings was seen from the bat of Yashasvi Jaiswal. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 104 runs not out. Whereas, Sanju Samson remained unbeaten after scoring 38 runs on 28 balls. Before this, Jos Buttler played an inning of 35 runs. These three batsmen took this team to victory.
Situation of Mumbai Indians has not changed even after 12 years
Actually, Mumbai Indians team has not defeated Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur since 2012. Even under the captaincy of Hardik Pandya, the team failed to end this sequence. So far 8 matches have been played between Rajasthan and Mumbai in Jaipur, out of which Rajasthan has won 6 matches. The last time this happened was in the year 2012, when Mumbai defeated Rajasthan at its home ground Jaipur.
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