Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians: The Mumbai Indians train appears to be back on track, but then derails again. Now the team captained by Hardik Pandya has to face another match defeat. This time it was Rajasthan under the captaincy of Sanju Samson. This was no small victory, Rajasthan Royals defeated Mumbai Indians by 9 wickets and that too with overs to spare. Now the question is, what did the Rajasthan team do that it had to face defeat in both the consecutive matches.
Mumbai has won only three out of 8 so far
Hardik Pandya’s team has lost 5 out of 8 matches in IPL this year. He has got only 3 wins so far. The team has a total of 6 points and currently the team is struggling at seventh position. Now only time will tell whether the team will be able to reach the top 4 or not, but it is certain that the path ahead will be difficult for it. Meanwhile, if we look at the statistics, we will know why Mumbai team lost two matches against Rajasthan.
Rajasthan did not allow Mumbai to score 50 runs in the powerplay.
If we look at the 8 matches played by Mumbai Indians so far, we find that Rajasthan is the only team against which the Mumbai team could not cross the 50 mark in the powerplay i.e. the first 6 overs and also lost wickets. Mumbai’s first match this year was against Gujarat, in the powerplay of this match Mumbai scored 52 runs. After this the team was successful in scoring 76 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad. After this we faced Rajasthan. In this match, Mumbai team could score only 46 runs and 4 wickets of the team fell.
Scored more than 50 runs in the first 6 overs against other teams
After this Mumbai faced Delhi. Mumbai had scored 75 runs in the powerplay of this match. Also against RCB, the team scored 72 runs in the first 6 overs. The team scored 63 runs against CSK. He scored 54 runs against Punjab Kings. But when they again faced Rajasthan, the team could score only 45 runs and lost three wickets. That means Rajasthan was the only team which did not allow Mumbai to score 50 runs in the powerplay and also took wickets. Mumbai team could not recover from this phase and the result was defeat. Now 6 more matches are left in Mumbai League, it remains to be seen how the team performs in it.
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