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Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians Highlights: Rajasthan Royals have defeated Mumbai Indians by 27 runs. In this rain-affected match, Rajasthan Royals, batting first, scored 150 runs in 11 overs. Chasing a big target, MI team could score only 123 runs. Due to rain the number of overs in the match was reduced to 11. The biggest contribution to Rajasthan’s victory was from Yashasvi Jaiswal who scored 77 runs.
After losing the toss, Rajasthan team was invited to bat first. This decision backfired so much on MI that Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Yashasvi Jaiswal made ghosts of the bowlers by beating them. Jaiswal scored 77 runs in 32 balls, on the other hand, Suryavanshi scored 39 runs in 14 balls and helped Rajasthan reach the score of 150.
Rajasthan scored a hat-trick of victory
This is the third consecutive win for Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026. The Mumbai Indians team, which came to chase the huge target of 151 runs, had lost 5 wickets by the time they reached 46 runs. Rohit Sharma scored only 5 runs, while Suryakumar Yadav, who scored a fifty in the last match, scored only 6 runs this time. Tilak Verma got the start, but he too walked out after scoring 14 runs. Captain Hardik Pandya, who missed the last match due to illness, made a comeback. Pandya could not take any wicket in bowling and could score only 9 runs in batting also.
Naman Dheer and Sherfan Rutherford definitely raised hopes for a while. Naman scored 25 runs in 13 balls and Rutherford scored 25 runs in 8 balls. But he could not ensure the team’s victory. A total of 10 players from Mumbai came to bat, out of which only 3 batsmen could touch double figures in terms of runs.
Rajasthan Royals team has now gone to the top of the points table, with 6 points. In the match against MI, Sandeep Sharma, Nandre Berger and Ravi Bishnoi, these three bowlers took 2-2 wickets. Tushar Deshpande and Joffra Archer also managed to take one wicket each.