MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024: Riyan Parag, R Ashwin steady Royals after shaky start in 126-run chase

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Right, RR are taking it slow here, there will probably not be too much NRR nectar for them at the end of it all and credit to the MI bowlers and fielders for that. Ravichandran Ashwin is out there on nine off 10, Riyan Parag on 16 off 18.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 73/3 in 10 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Buttler pulls it straight to the fielder at fine leg. Madhwal has dismissed the two senior-most batters in the RR lineup. MI really putting some pressure here.

Buttler c Chawla b Madhwal 13 (16)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: RR 48/3 in 6.3 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals:… but MI won’t be too happy about that because they would have hoped for Bumrah to get a wicket when he bowled his third over. Instead, he has gone three overs without a wicket, despite coming painfully close to one so many times. MI haven’t let RR get away in the powerplay thanks to Bumrah, Maphaka and Madhwal. Madhwal to continue for the seventh. Riyan Parag on strike on six off two, Buttler on 12 off 14.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: RR 46/2 in 6 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Akash Madhwal comes in to bowl the fifth after Bumrah bowls the fourth over. Buttler off the strike first ball and then Madhwal sends in the 2nd ball to Samson slightly short. The RR captain looking to cut with absolutely no foot movement at all, under edge and stumps. Lazy, lazy shot from the RR captain and it has given the opposition a look in.

Samson b Madhwal 12 (10)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: RR 42/2 in 4.2 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Maphaka started the over off with an absolute peach to Buttler, full outside off swinging in and fizzing past Buttler’s outside edge. Maphaka then goes for a yorker, misses it by a centimetre and Buttler sends it through cover for a boundary. A single off the next ball and MI appeal for an LBW against Samson off the fourth. Samson gets some width after that and sends it through point. The last is slightly fuller and Samson drives it square for a second consecutive boundary. Samson on eight off as many, Buttler on five off four.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: RR 30/1 in 3 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Seven runs came off that over but make no mistake, Bumrah had Samson dancing to his tunes. Buttler gets off strike first ball after Bumrah had sent one wide due to it moving too much. Then he has Samson searching and searching for the ball and it kept beating his outside edge. The fourth delivery moved too much down the leg side and beat Ishan Kishan as well to go behind for five wides.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: RR 17/1 in 2 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Finally, MI ditch the idea of getting Pandya to bowl the second over and Bumrah comes in from the other end. He is bowling to Jos Buttler, with whom he had that almighty bust-up if you remember during the Lord’s Test in 2021 which led to a ridiculous tail-ender’s stand between Bumrah and Mohammed Shami. Two international heavyweights going head to head.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: 17-year-old Kwena Maphaka has his first IPL wicket and it is that of Yashasvi Jaiswal. Jaiswal had hit fours off the previous two balls but lobs the last ball straight into the hands of David at cover.

Jaiswal c David b Maphaka 10 (6)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: RR 10/1 in 1 over

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Kwena Maphaka to bowl the first over for MI, Yashasvi Jaiswal is on strike with Jos Buttler at the other end. So what’s it going to be then? Will RR fly to a third consecutive win, will MI make them sweat all the way to the last over of the game or will MI pull off a miracle. Surely, surely Bumrah has to bowl at least two overs in the first seven.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Yuzvendra Chahal says that it is a good wicket. He said that he backed himself to get the desired result with the Pandya wicket, for which he had sent one in on the slot and deceived the batter with the turn. “In this format I know we can go for hits and wickets in others but our team wanted wickets at that stage and I went for it. There was a bit of dew after 16th over but we need to have a good first six,” he said.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: RR can get their hands on some very sweet NRR nectar if the likes of Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal properly fire today. It can also help put these MI fans out of their misery.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: The Wankhede crowd is as flat as the road on Marine Drive at the moment. Jasprit Bumrah, who holds the record for most runs in a Test match over, remember, has scored two runs in six balls. Akash Madhwal on strike and he has scored one in two.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 115/9 in 19 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Burger bowling the 19th over, David cannot get the first two balls away and refuses singles. He pulls the third flat to Boult at the long-leg boundary. This game just goes from bad to worse for MI.

David c Boult b Burger 17 (24)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 115/9 in 19 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Coetzee hits the third ball of the 17th straight to cover and MI down to their last two overs. That is also wicket No.3 for Chahal.

Coetzee c Hetmyer b Chahal 4 (9)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 111/8 in 16.3 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: David with a boundary off the first ball of the over, after Boult had sent it wide. Five more runs and that is that for Boult, he ends with figures of 3/22.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 111/7 in 16 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Now MI do have a pretty good score on board, if you ignore the wickets column and RR would know just how important it is to get Tim David now because this is exactly around the time when he is most effective in a game. RR do know all that and so Samson decides to bowl out Boult in the 16th.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 102/7 in 15 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Chahal entices with a delivery that is flighted and wide outside off, Varma takes the bait. Edge and caught quite well by Ashwin at short third man.

Varma c Ashwin b Chahal 32 (29)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 95/7 in 13.2 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Ravichandran Ashwin bowled that 13th over, David got off strike off the second ball. Then Varma run twos off the next two balls and a single off the last. Varma on 32 off 27, David on six off seven.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 95/6 in 13 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: We saw a candidate for catch of the season last night from Matheesha Pathirana, add this one to the list please. Avesh Khan bowling the 12th over, the first one to Chawla is shortish, the batter tries to cut. It was travelling fast and Hetmyer dives and grabs the ball one-handed at point. Extraordinary stuff.

Chawla c Hetmyer b Avesh Khan 3 (6)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 83/6 in 11.1 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Pandya went back to the dugout and sat with his head hanging beside Sachin Tendulkar. The great man gave him some pats on the back and consolatory words. MI have sent out Piyush Chawla instead of Tim David. Ravichandran Ashwin to bowl the 11th over in his 200th T20I.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 77/5 in 10 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Chahal gets the breakthrough and the partnership ends on 56 off 36. MI back in trouble then. Well let’s face it, they never really were out of the woods, it was always going to take something extraordinary for Pandya and Varma to turn the tables by themselves. Pandya tried to club the third ball over long-on, ends up holing out there.

Pandya c sub (R Powell) b Chahal 34 (21)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 76/5 in 9.3 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Yuzvendra Chahal bowls the first over of spin in the eighth over. Varma gets off strike first ball and Pandya’s cover drive was beaten all ends up with the leg break second delivery. The third also went to cover point after taking Pandya’s edge. Then he waits for the slower fourth delivery and expertly guides it to the boundary past slip. A single off the last ball and Pandya retains strike. He is on 25 off 15, Varma on 22 off 16.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 65/4 in 8 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Varma on strike and the batters run two off the second ball. He gets bounced next ball and then Tilak hooks Avesh fourth ball all the way into the stands. He gets off strike and then Pandya guides the last ball wide of third man. Pandya has raced to 20 off 10, Varma on 21 off 15.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 59/4 in 7 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Hardik Pandya fighting fire with fire, on the field and off it one senses. He ends up smashing 16 runs in the final over of the powerplay. Two off the first ball from Burger. Then Pandya smashes the second over point and the crowd lets out a cheer. A four off the next ball as well to the cover-point boundary and the cheers get a little louder. Then a dot ball and then Pandya smashes the fifth over long-on. Two runs off the last ball and huge cheers from the crowd. Are we going to get a Pandya show like none other today? Is he going to do a Bollywood here and flip this crowd? Well this powerplay really has been pure theatre and one gets the sense that the show will continue as long as Pandya is out there with the bat. Avesh Khan bowling the first over after powerplay, Pandya on 16 off nine, Varma on 12 off 10.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 46/4 in 6 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Varma with a skier off the last ball of the over, Chahal runs back from midwicket, fantastic effort but he can’t complete the catch. Would have been quite an extraordinary one if he had pulled it off.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 30/4 in 5 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Well Pandya can’t catch a break today. If he was happy that he wouldn’t have to walk out to the cauldron for another 40 minutes or so with MI batting first, he was wrong. Pandya walks in with India’s top four back in the hut inside four overs and the music was blaring a little louder than usual. The stadium announcer leads a ‘Ganpati Bappa Morya!’ chant before quickly announcing amid the crowd’s noise that the next batter is Hardik Pandya and still, the boos came. Pandya survives the last three balls of the over and so Tilak on strike for the fifth which will be bowled by Boult of course.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 20/4 in 4 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: MI are a-tumblin’! Nandre Burger gets the wicket this time. Test match lengths bowled thus far by Boult and Burger and they reaping dividends. Indeed, Tilak Varma even had to leave a ball outside off from Boult last over as if he was playing a red-ball game. Movement off the deck third ball, outside edge and Samson takes the catch. This means Hardik Pandya walks in for the fourth over of the match already.

Kishan c Samson b Burger 16 (14)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 20/4 in 3.3 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: What is going on here? No hat-trick for Boult with a single taken off the first ball. But then Brevis throws his bat at the first delivery he faces next ball, ends up edging it to short third man. MI have lost three wickets in the first 14 balls.

Brevis c Burger b Boult 0 (1)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 14/3 in 2.2 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Ishan Kishan started the second over with a six over long leg. It was a nice slot ball on leg and Kishan showed that he remained aware through those two wickets. Then a four off the fifth ball and Kishan on 11 off 10, Brevis, who has come as an Impact sub for Dhir, yet to face a ball. Boult returns for his hat-trick delivery.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 13/2 in 2 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Naman Dhir gone for a golden duck now. Boult will be on a hat-trick when he bowls the first ball of his next over, which will surely be the third now. On a length agian, but it comes in instead of going out which is what happened with Rohit. Dhir tries pushing it to mid-on, he is hit on the knee-roll instead, RR appeal and the umpire gives. Dhir reviews that decision, it is umpire’s call on stumps and so that makes it one run and two wickets in an extraordinary first over. Nandre Burger is coming in for the second over.

Dhir lbw b Boult 0 (1)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: MI 1/2 in 1 over

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: What a delivery, what a catch and what a moment. The crowd was absolutely thunderous with Rohit coming on strike after Kishan took a single off the fourth ball of the over. Boult sends it in on a length, Rohit responds with a straight bat defence, outside edge and Samson takes a great catch diving to his right.

Rohit c Samson b Boult 0 (1)

MI vs RR IPL Live Score: 1/1 in 0.5 overs

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Rohit Sharma has walked out with Ishan Kishan. Trent Boult to bowl the first over.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Samson said that the team is confident. He hopes that the seamers will use the conditions upfront. Confident from the wins but the tournament has not yet started so we need to keep going.

Pandya, amid the boos, says wanted to bowl first as well. It is a good toss to lose, he says. About MI’s 250th game, Pandya says that the franchise holds a lot of value and a lot of love from the fans. Boos went up at this point again but he kept his voice steady and loud, exciting to be very honest. “We are quite lucky to be part of the 250th game. Slow start doesn’t bother us. We hope to have clarity, keep the mood happy and light. This group is all about that. Looking forward to play a brand of cricket everyone enjoys and gets that two points,” he said.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Why fix that which isn’t broken, eh?

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

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: The young Kwena Maphaka gets another game.

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

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Utterly incredible scenes at the Wankhede. Pandya was booed when he was announced by Manjrekar, he was booed almost throughout the time that he was talking. And between the boos were chants for Rohit. Not sure how happy the former MI captain himself would be about the fact that the adulation he is receiving is just one side of the coin, the other being hatred for a player who has been his teammate for over a decade in the IPL and at the international level.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: “Rohit! Rohit!” chants everywhere. Big boos when Sanjay Manjrekar mentions his name as captain of Mumbai Indians, Manjrekar implores the crowd to behave. Quite extraordinary scenes this. Pandya tosses the coin, Samson calls it right, Rajasthan Royals bowl first.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: The players have been warming up in the middle for a while now. Hardik Pandya and Sanju Samson will soon be down there to for the toss.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: MI have give Bumrah just one over in the powerplay thus far in the two matches they have played, which is strange considering it is in the powerplay that they would be most vulnerable to batters going over the top. Will Pandya decide to give more than that to his strike bowler? We will wait and watch.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Mumbai Indians won their first title in 2013, the sixth season of the IPL. Since then, they have added four more to become the joining most succesfull franchise in the history of the league alongwith CSK. However, they haven’t won the IPL since 2020, which makes it the longest title drought for them after that initial run of five years without a title.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Well this might not be related to this game but any news of MS Dhoni going berzerk is never irrelevant in any kind of conversation on the IPL, is it? Dhoni batting for the first time this season was among the many things that fans of Indian cricket got to see, and probably smiled while doing so, with Rishabh Pant’s brilliant half-century, Prithvi Shaw’s promising return and Khaleel Ahmed’s impressive performance being the others. It was too late for CSK by the time Dhoni got in but well, he gave the CSK fans something to remember. In fact so delirious were the yellow jerseys in the stands in Vizag by the end of that match that they seemed to completely ignore that their team lost the match by 20 runs. Dhoni smashed an unbeatne 37 in just 16 balls, 20 of which came in the last over alone.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: The MI team bus was treated with chants for their former captain as it made its way through Marine Drive to the Wankhede Stadium. Fans outside the stadium can be seen walking around with banners for Rohit. Well, seems a good indicator for how this game will go.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Jasprit Bumrah has been back to his best over the last 10 odd months after his long-term injury troubles robbed the world of the sight of him loading up in the most recognisable delivery stride of all time and bamboozling batters. Very few batters have been able to score runs off him, regardless of the format and it has been no different in the IPL. Bumrah has an economy rate of 6.25 so far this season. The next-best Mumbai bowler on that count has been Gerald Coetzee, at 10.50.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Well the answer for that, for now, is up in the ether somewhere near the National Cricket Accademy in Bengaluru. For the uninitiated, Mumbai Indians are missing arguably their most potent weapon in the batting order with Suryakumar Yadav out. He is still recovering at the NCA. They have no other injuries to report though.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Sides batting second had won five of the seven matches played at the Wankhede last season, which led to sides winning the toss automatically choosing to bowl first. Conditions don’t look too different today.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: The head to head record between these two sides stands at MI 15 – 12 RR. At the Wankhede, MI have a 5-3 lead. Last year RR came close to beating MI at the venue but they failed to defend 212/7, with Tim David showcasing his finishing prowess.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Trent Boult played spent quite a few trophy-laden seasons with Hardik Pandya in the MI dressing room. “Speaking of Hardik, he is one my favourite Indian cricketers and I do not think the booing will hold out for too long. I am sure he is one of the guys who can put it aside and focus on the job,” he said.

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: Former England captain Michael Vaughan does love to stir things up on social media, especially when it involves Indian cricket fans. Today, he has taken a selfie in front of the Gateway of India from his hotel, most probably the Taj, wearing a Rajasthan Royals jersey with the caption: “So pleased to have signed for the biggest franchise @rajasthanroyals to become head of social media .. Watch this space for great content ..”

Well played Vaughny

MI vs RR IPL Live Score 2024, Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals: If we ignore the stadiums worth of boos that have been ringing out periodically during MI games and focus on what happened on the field, it has been a peculiar time thus far for the five-time champion. They will probably feel that they should have won the match against GT in their season opener. Then they will probably feel good about the fact that they put up a good account of themselves against SRH despite chasing an improbable target. They lost both those games but in contrasting fashion.