RR vs MI: Rajasthan thrash thrilling three wickets against Mumbai

In the 21st match of IPL 2018, Rajasthan Royals registered a thrilling three-wicket victory over the Mumbai Indians. Mumbai, batting first, scored a strong score of 167 for seven wickets, which Rajasthan won by 7 wickets in 19.4 overs with 168 runs.

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Jaipur: In the 21st match of IPL 2018, Rajasthan Royals won the thrilling three-wicket victory over Mumbai Indians with three wickets. Mumbai, batting first, scored a strong score of 167 for seven wickets, which Rajasthan won by 7 wickets in 19.4 overs with 168 runs.

Sanju Samson scored a brilliant 52 runs for Rajasthan. Samson scored 4 fours in his innings. Apart from Samson, Ben Stokes scored a useful innings of 40 runs. Stokes hit three fours and a six in 27 balls.

At the end, Krishnappa Gautam's unbeaten 33 runs in 11 balls and gave the team victory. Krishnappa Gautam hit four fours and two sixes in 11 balls.

Chasing a target of 168 runs from Mumbai, Rajasthan, losing to their two wickets on 38 runs. But after this Samson and Stokes shared a 72-run partnership for the third wicket.

The match became exciting when Jaspreet Bumrah hit the second and third ball of the 16th over with two consecutive wickets to push Rajasthan back to defeat. Bumrah scored only one run in this over and two wickets shocks.

Rajasthan needed 28 runs to win in the last two overs and Gautam gave away four fours and two sixes in 11 balls to give Rajasthan two wickets in three wickets.

This is the third win in Rajasthan's six matches, while Mumbai have to face the fourth defeat in five matches.

For Mumbai, Jaspreet Bumrah scored two wickets for 28 runs, and Hardik Pandya took two wickets for 25 runs while Mitchell McClenaghan, Kunal Pandya and Mustafizur Rahman took one wicket each.

Earlier, Mumbai Indians scored 167 for seven against Sunakumar Yadav (72) and Ishaan Kishan (58) for the better half-century, but his bowlers did not defend the score.

Mumbai decided to bat first before winning the toss. But without the opening of the Ewan Lewis account, the score of one run of the team got bowled on Dhawal Kulkarni's ball. After this, Suryakumar and Kishan played their respective half-centuries and played half-centuries.

Suryakumar hit six fours and three sixes in 47 balls. Kishan hit four fours and three sixes in 42 balls. Suryakumar and Kishan made a century partnership of 129 for the second wicket. This is the largest partnership ever made by any team in the 11th of the league.

Kieron Pollard hit a four and a six in an unbeaten 21 off 20 balls. Captain Rohit Sharma runs out without opening the account Krunal Pandya seven and Hardik Pandya scored four runs.

The Mumbai team could only manage 37 runs in the last 35 balls and during this time they lost their six wickets too. Jaffra Archer, who made his debut in the IPL for three of these six wickets in Mumbai, got it. Mumbai's team could only add 32 runs in the last five overs.

For Rajasthan, Archer was the top three wicket-takers with 22 runs in four overs. Although he missed the completion of the hatchet. Dhawal Kulkarni got two wickets for 32 runs while Jayadev Unadkat got one wicket for 31 runs.