Sanju Samson-led Rajasthan Royals on 30 April scored 212 runs after losing 6 wickets against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai.

Rajasthan Royals innings:

Rajasthan Royals win the toss and opt to bat first. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal remained firm on the pitch and hit a century. He scored 124 runs in 62 balls. Apart from Jaiswal, no other player could cross the score of 20 runs as wickets fell on quick succession.

Though it was expected that Mumbai’s Wankhede stadium prefers batters, apart from Jaiswal, it appeared the pitch belonged the home team.

Jos Buttler (18), Sanju Samson (14), Devdutt Padikkal (4), Jason Holder (11), Shimron Hetmyer (8), Dhruv Jurel (2), Ravichandran Ashwin* (8) and Trent Boult* (0). These scores showed the poor performance by RR batters on the Mumkbai pitch.

On the 100th match of IPL at the Wankhede stadium, MI bowler Arshad Khan took 3 wickets, Piyush Chawla picked 2, while Riley Meredith and Jofra Archer took 1 each.

Mumbai Indians innings:

Chasing a target of 213 runs, MI openers skipper Rohit Sharma (3) and Ishan Kishan (28) didn’t fulfil the expectations and walked backed to the pavilion within 9 overs.

Though, Cameron Green (44) and Suryakumar Yadav (55) set up a fruitful partnership. They were dismissed by Ashwin and Boult 11th and 16th over.

Following this, Tilak Varma (29) and Tim David (45) took the responsibility and led Mumbai Indians win the match in 19.3 overs.

For RR, Ravichandran Ashwin took 2 wickets, while Trent Boult and Sandeep Sharma picked one each.

With this, Mumbai has won its 4th match and climbed up to the 7th spot in the IPL points table, while, RR slipped one spot down to third.