The Mumbai Indians won a 100 -point commander victory over the Royals Rajasthan at the Sawai Mansingh stadium in Jaipur on Thursday, Captain Hardy Pandya only becoming the third Mi skipper to achieve this feat on the RR field. The victory presented exceptional performances of high -level strikers and quisors Trent Boult and Karn Sharma, who each claimed three counters.
The 48 unbeaten Pandya bullets contributed to the impressive total of Mi 217/2 in the first round. The team’s bowling attack then dismantled RR, the bowling alley for only 117 points in 16.1 Overs.
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This victory marks an important step because only two earlier of MI captains, Harbhajan Singh in 2012 and Sachin Tendulkar in 2010, had succeeded in defeating RR in Jaipur. Since then, MI has won the Royals, but these victories of the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad (in 2014) and the Dy Patil stadium in Mumbai (in 2022). Regarding Jaipur, RR had cooked five consecutive victories in Mi at the Sawai Mansingh stadium before the categorical defeat on Thursday evening.
The Skipper Mi Pandya presented its versatile capacities by taking the Shubham Dubey counter in its only.
“Everyone is very clear and we go back to simple cricket, it works for us and I hope it continues. We want to be humble, very disciplined and continue to concentrate. We could have obtained 15 additional races. What we were trying to talk to us was playing the percentage of blows. Surya and I said that there was value for shooting … Rohit) and Ryan was the same way. Absolutely fantastic.
“We have to give credit to the way in which Mi played. The way they struck, took the game a little deeply, kept the 10 points by more consistency and accelerated in the end. Regarding our striker, it was not our day,” said the RR Riyan Parag skipper.
The victory extends the sequence of Victories of the Mumbai Indians at six games in the tournament. Despite the loss of their first five games, they have now climbed the points table at the top.