MI vs RR Highlights, IPL 2024: Parag fifty helps RR win by 6 wickets in 126-run chase

Six!! Full and wide, Riyan smokes it over covers for a six! Just 9 to win now. Six!! Make that three to win. Fifty for Riyan Parag!! Four!! Short ball at the body, finds Riyan’s top edge and it runs away for a boundary. RR wins by 6 wickets!

Chawla to Dubey, lofted down the ground, just a single to long on. Six!! Full on the stumps, right in the slot, Riyan brings out the no-look shot for six! Dubey looks for a slog sweep, misses. Ten runs from the over. 

Bumrah with his fourth over. Four!! Full outside off, Parag drills it through the covers for a boundary. Seven runs from the over. 25 more to win.

Madhwal to bowl out. WICKET!! Third wicket for Madhwal, Ashwin looks for a lofted shot but gets a top edge that is safely pouched by Tilak Varma.

Ashwin c Tilak Varma b Akash Madhwal 16(16)

Shubham Dubey in at 6. Will be hopeful of getting the team past the finishline on his debut. Four!! Full outside off stump, Dubey drives it past mid off for a boundary. 

Chawla with his second over. Full and wide, beats Ashwin’s waft. Outside the line of the stumps again, Ashwin drives through point for a single. Full on leg stump to Parag, driven to long off for a single. Three runs from the over. 

Coetzee with his second. Appeal for LBW after he bowls the prefect yorker. Replays suggest it was bat. Four!! Full and wide, Riyan lofts it over cover for a boundary. Full to Ashwin, driven to deep point for a couple. 11 from the over. 

Piyush Chawla into the attack. Ashwin and Parag take five from the over. RR needs 53 runs from 60 balls. 

Madhwal with his third over. Ashwin dabs the first ball to midwicket for a single. Short of a length, Ashwin cuts it through point for a couple. Ashwin misses his waft outside off stump, beats Ishan Kishan and runs away for two byes. A couple to finish off the over. 

Coetzee into the attack. Edged and four!! Short of a lenth, Riyan opens his bat face and lofts it above the wicketkeeper for a boundary. Four!! Short on the body, Riyan pulls it through fine leg for another boundary. Ten runs off the over. Time Out!

Madhwal with his second over. WICKET!! Goes short, Buttler pulls it straight down the throat of fine leg.

Buttler c Chawla b Akash Madhwal 13(16)

Ashwin in at 5. Four runs off the over. 

Bumrah with his third over on the trot. Manages to find Riyan’s edge as he looked to turn one to the leg side, a single taken to point. Just two runs from the over. 

WICKET!! Akash Madhwal into the attack and removes the skipper in his second ball. Short of a length and wide, Samson edges it onto his stumps. 

Samson b Akash Madhwal 12(10)

Riyan Parag in at 4. Gets off the mark first ball with a single to deep square. Three runs off the over. 

Bumrah continues. Four!! Full on the pads, Buttler clips it through midwicket for a boundary. Dropped!! Full and wide, Buttler drives it to the right of mid off, Hardik dives full length to the left but can’t hold on. Oh!!! Buttler shoulders arms to inswinging delivery, the height saves him. Edged and four!! Bumrah finds Samson’s edge, runs past the slip fielder for a boundary. 

Maphaka with his second, beats Buttler’s outside edge first ball. Four!! Outside off stump, Buttler drives it through extra cover for a boundary. Four!! Slightly wide, Samson cuts through point to get off the mark. Four!! Similar delivery, cut through point to the fence again. 

Bumrah from the other end. Beats Samson with a jaffa outside off stump. Bumrah goes for the inswinger, doesn’t get the line right and it runs behind for five wides. Seven runs off the over. 

Maphaka to bowl the first over. Jaiswal and Buttler open the innings for RR. Jaiswal opens the scoring with a double through point. Four!! Short of a length outside off, Jaiswal lofts it over the infield on the offside for a boundary. Four!! Short of a length, Jaiswal pulls it over midwicket for a boundary. WICKET!! Full outside off, driven straight to Tim David at cover. 

Jaiswal c Tim David b Kwena Maphaka 10(6)

What a show from Rajasthan Royals as Trent Boult and Yuzvendra Chahal share six wickets among themselves but it was Boult who triggered the downfall by picking wickets up front. Nandre Burger picked up two wickets, and Avesh Khan snarred one, as Rajasthan needs 126 runs to win. Hardik Pandya and Tilak Varma did manage to pull back things with a 56-run stand, but the fall of Hardik saw Rajasthan take charge of the game. Back for the chase in a bit. Should be an easy one, until and unless, Rajasthan decides to make heavy weather of chasing a small total. 

Yuzvendra Chahal has walked off the field, and Shivam Dubey has come in as the impact substitute. Nandre Burger picks up his second wicket as Trent Boult takes an excellent catch at deep backward square leg to pack off Tim David. Mumbai is nine down. 

Avesh Khan bowls a brilliant over and gives just two runs from his third over. Mumbai needs some fireworks as the total needs to be beefed up in the last two overs. 

Chahal with his spin, and he is liking what the red surface is offering as he picks his third wicket. Tossed up delivery, slower through the air, and Gerald Coetzee hits straight to Hetmyer at covers. This is absolutely brilliant bowling by the leg-spinner. A fantastic spell as he finishes with excellent figures of 4-0-11-3.

Trent Boult finished his spell, and what a brilliant evening the fast bowler has had. He put Mumbai under pressure early, and his three-wicket haul gave Rajasthan control early in the innings. Boult finishes with wonderful figures of 4-0-22-3. Top spell!

Can Mumbai bat out the full quota of 20 overs is what remains to be seen. Ashwin into his final over, and he, along with Chahal chained down the Mumbai batsmen. The 100 is up for Mumbai and with Tim David out in the middle, a score of 150 is something they would be targeting. Ashwin finishes his spell with figures of 4-0-27-0.

There it is! Chahal strikes as Tilak Varma chases a wide delivery, and Ashwin takes a superb diving catch at short third man. Chahal picks up his second wicket, and Rajasthan will eye to quickly wrap up things. Mumbai is sinking fast at the Wankhede!

Ashwin continues, and Rajasthan will be wary of the fact that they can’t relax and let Mumbai off the hook. With Tim David and a well-set Tilak Varma, Mumbai still has a chance to post a challenging total. 

What a sensational catch from Hetmyer! Avesh Khan strikes and he removes Piyush Chawla as the batsman tries to guide the ball over the backward point, but Hetmyer was sharp with his reflexes and took a brilliant catch at the backward point. Top catch and Mumbai are now six down! Finally, Tim David walks out..

Rajasthan chocking Mumbai with spin, and Ashwin, known for his brilliance in foxing the batsmen, has applied brakes on the Mumbai Express. Tilak holds the key for Mumbai but to promote Piyush Chawla ahead of Tim David is still surprising. Sanju Samson took a DRS review for a wide call, and he was right as the ball clipped the thigh pad of Tilak. Top over from Ashwin.

Gone! Hardik Pandya falls as Chahal breaks the partnership with a slower, flatter delivery as the Mumbai skipper goes for a big hit only not to find the distance as Powell at the deep settles underneath the catch, and that’s a huge wicket. Surprisingly, Piyush Chawla walks in with Tim David in the sheds! 

Right then spin from both ends as R Ashwin, playing his 200th IPL match, comes into the attack. A run-out chance went begging as Yashasvi Jaiswal’s wide throw helped Hardik extend his stay at the crease, and the 50-run partnership is up. 

First signs of spin as Yuzvendra Chahal comes into the attack. Hardik Pandya is up and running as he slashes through the wide of the slip cordon, and the partnership is steadily growing. Decent start from Chahal. 

The first bowling change as Avesh Khan comes into the attack, and there is no stopping Tilak Varma as Avesh digs one short and the southpaw nails the pacer over the fine-leg to bring the 50-up for Mumbai. The recovery is on, and Hardik with a deft touch to the third man boundary, has been quietly playing a captain’s role. 

The PowerPlay belongs to Rajasthan as they have picked four wickets with Trent Boult taking three and Nandre Burger picking one. The introduction of Impact Player in Dewald Brevis failed to make an impact as Boult cut his innings short, and the onus is now on skipper Hardik Pandya and Tilak Varma who have found some sort of momentum with an unbeaten 26-run stand. 

Tilak Varma continues to dazzle as he flicks Trent Boult for a maximum over the deep fine leg - a rare loose delivery from the New Zealander - and then pockets a couple to keep the scorecard ticking. An opportunity was there for Rajasthan to leave Mumbai five down, but Yuzvendra Chahal failed to latch on to a touch catch at mid-wicket as Tilak survived. 

Nandre Burger strikes now as he removes Ishan Kishan with a peach of a delivery, and Mumbai are four down! A back of length delivery that had pace and bounce as the ball found the outside edge of Kishan and flew into the safe nest of Sanju Samson’s gloves. Mumbai in deep trouble, with captain Hardik Pandya waking in to bail his side out of trouble. 

Boult strikes, and he picks his third, although he misses his hat-trick. The impact player is gone as Brevis hits straight to Burger at short third man, and this is excellent field placement from Sanju Samson. Top stuff from Rajasthan and this is a horrible start from Mumbai Indians. The dug-out is in a bit of panic as Tilak Varma comes out to bat. 

Ishan Kishan welcomes Nandre Burger with a huge maximum - a brilliant flick over the backward square leg for a maximum. The southpaw then goes for a wild pull and just gets a glove on the ball as it beats Sanju Samson and runs away for a boundary. 

Trent Boult removes Rohit Sharma for a duck as the former Mumbai skipper departs in his very first ball he has faced. Angled away and Rohit tentatively pokes at it, the ball takes the outside edge, and Sanju Samson dives to his right to take an excellent catch. Boult then trapped Naman Dhir to position himself for a hat-trick. The batsman did review but the on-field umpire’s call stayed. Dewals Brevis, the Impact Player sub walks in. 

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Nandre Burger, Yuzvendra Chahal

Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Gerald Coetzee, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Jasprit Bumrah, Kwena Maphaka

Rajasthan Royals wins the toss, opts to bowl first

We are not too far away from the toss and the spin of the coin will take place at 7:00 PM.

Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan(w), Naman Dhir, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Shams Mulani, Gerald Coetzee, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Kwena Maphaka, Mohammad Nabi, Suryakumar Yadav, Shreyas Gopal, Luke Wood, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Nehal Wadhera, Kumar Kartikeya, Shivalik Sharma, Anshul Kamboj, Akash Madhwal, Nuwan Thushara, Dewald Brevis

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Sandeep Sharma, Avesh Khan, Nandre Burger, Navdeep Saini, Keshav Maharaj, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Rovman Powell, Tanush Kotian, Kuldeep Sen, Donovan Ferreira, Abid Mushtaq, Shubham Dubey, Kunal Singh Rathore