IPL Live 2020 / Rajasthan Royals beat Mumbai Indians by 8 wickets

Zoom News : Oct 25, 2020, 11:18 PM
In the 45th match of the 13th season of IPL, Rajasthan Royals (RR) defeated Mumbai Indians (MI) by 8 wickets. The Royals reached number six in the points table. The Royals' hopes for the play-offs remain intact. At the same time, despite the defeat, Mumbai continues to hold the top. Stokes scored his second century in the league.

In the match played in Abu Dhabi, Mumbai won the toss and gave a target of 196 runs while batting first. In response, Rajasthan lost the match by losing 2 wickets in 18.2 overs and scored 196 runs.

Rajasthan did not have a good start as Stokes-Samson chased down the innings. Mumbai pacer James Pattinson gave the team the first 2 shocks. He bowled captain Steve Smith for 11 runs. Uthappa (13) was then caught out by Kieron Pollard. Opener Ben Stokes held one end. Stokes hit 107 off 60 balls. Stokes won the team for the second wicket with an unbeaten 152-run partnership with Sanju Samson.

Pandya with 20 sixes in Pandya's 20 balls. He scored an unbeaten innings of 60 runs in 21 balls. Hardik scored 26 runs in the last over of the innings with the help of 3 sixes and 2 fours. Karthik Tyagi did this over. Earlier, Hardik had scored 25 runs in the 17th over with 4 sixes. This was Ankit Rajput's last over.

Apart from Hardik for Mumbai, Suryakumar Yadav scored 40, Ishaan Kishan 37 and Saurabh Tiwari scored 34 runs. Shreyas Gopal and Jofra Archer took 2–2 wickets each for Rajasthan. Karthik Tyagi got 1 wicket.

Karthik was caught by Archer at the hands of Ishaan and Suryakumar for 83 runs partnership. Ishaan and Suryakumar shared an 83-run partnership for the second wicket. Mumbai opener Quinton Dickock was out for 6 runs off 4 balls. Archer bowled him clean. Gopal gave Mumbai two shocks in one over. He got Suryakumar caught out by Stokes. Then Kieron Pollard was bowled (6).

A change in the playing eleven of Mumbai

Kieron Pollard captained Mumbai in place of Unfit Rohit Sharma in the second consecutive match. A change was made to the team. James Pattinson replaced Nathan Coulter-Nile. At the same time, there was no change in the playing eleven of Rajasthan.

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