IPL 2022 / Rajasthan Royals won the match by 23 runs, Mumbai's second consecutive defeat

Zoom News : Apr 02, 2022, 07:04 PM
The account of Mumbai's victory in IPL could not be opened even on Saturday. He has to face defeat in the second consecutive match. Rajasthan beat him by 23 runs at DY Patil Stadium. Chahal bowled brilliantly in the death overs and took 2 wickets. Rajasthan's Butler scored a century to reach the score 193.

Mumbai, chasing the target, lost the wicket of Rohit Sharma in the very beginning. Ishaan and Tilak tied the knot with an 81-run partnership, but both were dismissed after hitting fifty. After this, due to the slow batting of Pollard, the team could not chase 194 runs.

Fact of the match - Whenever Rajasthan has scored 190 or above while batting first against Mumbai, it has won. Mumbai had chased the target of 190 runs against Rajasthan in 2014. Then Rajasthan scored 189 runs in 20 overs. Mumbai scored 195 runs in 14.4 overs for the loss of 5 wickets. In today's match also Mumbai could not chase 190 plus target.


Tilak got out after making a fifty

The biggest highlight of Mumbai's innings was Tilak Verma. Tilak of Hyderabad was dismissed after playing a brilliant innings of 61 runs in 33 balls. He was bowled by R Ashwin and shown the way out of the field. This was Tilak's first half-century playing his second match in the IPL.


Ishaan completed 3 thousand runs

With his 17th run in Mumbai's innings, Ishan Kishan completed his 3,000 runs in T20 cricket.


Mumbai's comeback in the 19th over

Mumbai Indians took 3 wickets in the 19th over of Rajasthan's innings. Bumrah was doing the over and he dismissed Hetmyer (35) on the second ball. After this, Jasprit bowled Butler (100) on the 5th ball. R Ashwin was run out on the last ball.


Hetmyer played a stormy innings

Shimron Hetmyer was dismissed after playing a stormy innings of 35 runs in 14 balls. He hit 3 fours and 3 sixes in his innings. His strike rate was 250. Before being dismissed, Hetmyer had hit two consecutive sixes and two fours in an over of Pollard. With Buttler, he added 53 runs in 24 balls.


Bumrah gave first success to Mumbai

In the third over, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 1 run in 2 balls and returned to the pavilion after being dismissed by Jasprit Bumrah. His catch was caught by Tim David at short square leg.


Sanju and Butler's Partnership

RR lost the first two wickets at the score of 48 runs. After this Jos Buttler and captain Sanju Samson took over the innings of the Royals. For the third wicket, the pair added 82 runs in 50 balls. This partnership was broken by Kieron Pollard by dismissing Samson (30).


expensive over from Thampi

In the fourth over of RR's innings, Josh Butler scored 26 runs in an over of Basil Thampi. Buttler hit 3 sixes and 2 fours in the last 5 balls in this over.


Rohit's 150 catches

With one catch in the match, Rohit Sharma completed his 150 catches in T20 cricket. Rohit became the fourth player from India to take 150 catches in this format. Before Hitman, the names of MS Dhoni (200), Dinesh Karthik (192) and Suresh Raina (172) come.


Playing XI of both the teams:

RR: Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (w/c), Devdutt Padikal, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Trent Boult, Navdeep Saini, Praneek Krishna.


MI: Rohit Sharma (capt), Ishan Kishan (wk), Anmolpreet Singh, Tilak Verma, Kieron Pollard, Tim David, Daniel Sams, Murugan Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Tymal Mills, Basil Thampi.

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