IPL : Disastrous loss for Mumbai, Rajasthan beats Mumbai by 9 wickets
Rajasthan Royals defeated Mumbai Indians by 9 wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Chasing the target of 180 runs given by Mumbai, Rajasthan achieved the target by losing one wicket in 18.4 overs.
In the victory of Rajasthan, Yashasvi Jaiswal played a century of 104 runs while captain Sanju Samson scored 38 unbeaten runs while Jos Buttler scored 35 runs.
Piyush Chawla took the only wicket of Jos Buttler in Mumbai Indian’s defeat.
Earlier, after winning the toss, Mumbai batted first and scored 179 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. Tilak Varma scored highest 65 runs off 45 balls for Mumbai. Nehal Wadhera scored 49 runs, Mohammad Nabi scored 23 runs, Surya Kumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya scored 10 runs each other batters couldn’t score in double digits.
Sandeep Sharma took 5 wicket haul for Rajasthan Royals. Yuzvendra Chahal took 1 and Avesh Khan took 1 wicket while Trent Boult took 2 wickers in Rajasthan’s victory
This is Rajasthan’s seventh win this season. With 7 wins and 1 loss in 8 matches, Rajasthan has 14 points and is in the top position. Similarly, this is Mumbai’s fifth defeat in this season. Mumbai have won 3 matches out of 8 matches and have lost 5 matches including this and are in the seventh position with 6 points.