Mumbai Indians (MI) banked on Quinton de Kock’s brilliant knock to post a good total on the scoreboard against Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. It will be a tough ask for Rajasthan considering their recent form with the bat.
Meanwhile, Rajasthan Royals skipper Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and elected to field first. Rajasthan made two changes to their side. Ben Stokes is suffering from an injury, and Riyan Prayag has been dropped. K Gowtham and Liam Livingstone – who is making his debut in the Indian Premier have come in the playing XI. On the other hand, only one change for Mumbai Indians – Rohit Sharma comes in for Siddhesh Lad.
Putting to bat first, Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock got their team off to a brilliant start. The Rajasthan Royals bowlers found it tough to pitch the deliveries as the Mumbai Indians batters dispatched it to the boundaries. The home side notched up 57 runs in the powerplays. They hit everything at disposal as they marched towards the 100-run mark. However, Jofra Archer struck in the 11th over of the game to provide the first breakthrough. He dismissed Rohit Sharma three short of his half-century to have Mumbai Indians for 96 for one.
However, the dismissal of Rohit Sharma opened the doors, and Dhawal Kulkarni cleaned up Suryakumar Yadav. Since then, Rajasthan Royals made a solid comeback to contain the Mumbai Indians batsmen. But a late flourish from Quinton de Kock helped them go past the 150-run mark. Although de Kock got out on 81 runs, Hardik Pandya little cameo helped Mumbai Indians post 187 runs which will be a daunting task for Rajasthan Royals.
Twitter Reactions:
#RR likely to be set the target of 200+. Anything less than that should disappoint #MumbaiIndians
A Ro ‘Super’ Hit Show today?? #MIvRR #IPL— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) April 13, 2019
Good power play for #MI. Stats here favour team batting first.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) April 13, 2019
Me keeping my girlfriend away from my friendspic.twitter.com/zNyNLmXOiT #MIvRR
— Srijan (@its_Srijan) April 13, 2019
Kulkarni is stunned that the bail fell off #MIvRR
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) April 13, 2019
Rohit Sharma brings out his Football skills to save himself from getting out!#MIvRR #IPL2019 #RohitSharma pic.twitter.com/EtuGh6Zhd0
— Sacnilk Sports (@SacnilkSports) April 13, 2019
when a hot girl enters the stadium #MIvRR pic.twitter.com/Lhypoz4TWf
— Lisa (@carohi517) April 13, 2019
Polly #MIvRR ab tera kya hoga RR ??? pic.twitter.com/oqcWVDGMbx
— डॉ. सुरमा भोपाली (@Dr_Anubhav4u) April 13, 2019
Koncham opika tho adithe
Century kodathav kada ra #Mi #MumbaiIndians #MIvRR @ImRo45 pic.twitter.com/wTKMrDI319— Karthik (@karthikcvs) April 13, 2019
Another great cameo from Pandya 28* (11) 25* (10) 34 (18) 37 (17) something like that he's been hitting the ball very hard #MIvRR pic.twitter.com/aYAyCQKqvF
— Abhijeet ♞ (@TheYorkerBall) April 13, 2019
In any other era of Indian cricket, Dhawal Kulkarni would have been a prize catch. Takes 1st class wickets consistently, takes high-profile wickets in the IPL & has all the attributes of a “third seamer” Ah cricket is so much about right time right era @cricbuzz #ipl2019 #MIvRR
— Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07) April 13, 2019
#MIvRR pic.twitter.com/2dZ2dgTQkR
— डॉ. सुरमा भोपाली (@Dr_Anubhav4u) April 13, 2019
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Whenever pandya comes out to Bat, he treats his bat as Dandiya. #MIvRR
— Barkhurdaarjivi… ?? (@BloodyKamina) April 13, 2019
Umpiring standards need to be improve when there is a wide it's not been given and when there no wide it's been given…This costs the match happen against #Rcb when no ball was not given #MIvRR #IPL2019 @BCCI @cricketaakash @cricbuzz
— Sanket S Sali (@sanketsali17) April 13, 2019