MI vs RR IPL 2024 Highlights: Riyan Parag fifty leads Royals to 6-wicket win over Mumbai

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals:

Maphaka got his first ever IPL wicket by dismissing Yashasvi Jaiswal in the first over. Jasprit Bumrah kept the batters pinned but didn’t get a wicket in the powerplay. However Aakash Madhwal struck with the big wickets of Sanju Samson and Jos Buttler. Madhwal then went on to take this third in the form of Ravichandran Ashwin but Parag had then extinguished any hopes that MI had pulled off a miracle.

Earlier, Mumbai Indians were taken apart by Trent Boult in the powerplay and then Yuzvendra Chahal in the middle overs as Rajasthan Royals limited them to a score of 125/9 batting first in the five-time champions’ first home game of the season. Captain Hardik Pandya managed to convert some boos to cheers early in his innings as he and Tilak Varma tried to power a recovery for MI after Boult and Nandre Burger shredded their top four in the powerplay.

The crowd at the Wankhede made their feelings clear with resounding boos for Pandya at the toss, which Sanju Samson won and said that Rajasthan Royals are bowling first. Boult shook up MI early with Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir and Dewald Brevis all falling to him for golden ducks.

Pandya then gave MI a boost by smashing 16 runs off the last over of the powerplay and the five-time champions were 46/4 at the end of the sixth over. Pandya and Tilak put up 56 runs off 36 balls for the fifth wicket before the MI captain fell for 34 off 21 to Yuzvendra Chahal, who then dismissed Varma shortly thereafter for 34 off 21. Chahal got his third wicket in the death overs in the form of Gerald Coetzee. Tim David struggled to get going as well in the death overs, eventually falling for an uncharacteristically sluggish 17 off 24 balls.