Rajasthan Royals clinched their third straight win in a rain-curtailed IPL game against Mumbai Indians<\/p>\n
Opening pair Yashasvi Jaiswal and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi overwhelmed Mumbai Indians with their power-hitting and led Rajasthan Royals to their third straight win in a rain-curtailed Indian Premier League match.<\/p>\n
In a match reduced to 11-overs-a-side, Rajasthan plundered 3-150 and cruised to a 27-run win after Mumbai won the toss and elected to field.<\/p>\n
Jaiswal hit an unbeaten 77 off 32 balls, with 10 fours and four sixes, and 15-year-old Sooryavanshi made a 14-ball 39, including a first-ball six over mid-on off premier fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah.<\/p>\n
Earlier, it looked as if the much-anticipated clash between Sooryavanshi and Bumrah might not happen as the Super Soppers struggled to clear the heavy rain. The match eventually started after a two-hour delay.<\/p>\n
Mumbai’s chase was dashed inside the 20-ball Powerplay when Ryan Rickelton, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma all fell for single-digit scores to Rajasthan’s quicks. They eventually finished on 9-123.<\/p>\n
Mumbai lost the top three for just 22 runs and then further slipped to 5-46 when impact substitute leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi (2-25) bagged the wickets of Hardik Pandya and Tilak Varma in his first over.<\/p>\n
Mumbai’s impact substitute Sherfane Rutherford and Naman Dhir played cameos of 25 runs each, but Rajasthan did enough damage up front through Jofra Archer (1-17), Nandre Burger (2-21) and Sandeep Sharma (2-26) to seal their third straight win.<\/p>\n
Rajasthan top the table with three straight wins while Mumbai remain in the bottom half of the table with two points.<\/p>\n
Jaiswal gave the Royals a rollicking start with a 22-run first over as the left-hander smacked Deepak Chahar for four boundaries and a pulled six over mid-wicket.<\/p>\n
Sooryavanshi didn’t appear overawed while facing Bumrah for the first time in competitive cricket and lofted the world’s best pace bowler for a straight six. Two balls later he picked up a slower ball for another six over square leg.<\/p>\n
Jaiswal ensured Rajasthan got to well over-par score with another 22-run over against Trent Boult as he smashed back-to-back sixes while Sooryavanshi deposited the New Zealand left-armer’s shortish delivery over the rope at deep backward square leg as Rajasthan raced to 58 off three overs.<\/p>\n
Pandya (0-17) stemmed the flow of runs with a four-run fourth over before Shardul Thakur brought an end to an entertaining 80-run opening stand off just 30 balls. Sooryavanshi was distraught when he holed out to deep cover as Varma jumped high and grabbed a good catch over his head.<\/p>\n
Afghanistan spinner AM Ghazanfar (2-21) and Bumrah (0-32) tried to limit the damage but Jaiswal raised his half-century off 23 balls and then hit three boundaries in Thakur’s last over to give Rajasthan an imposing total.<\/p>\n
IPL 2026 standings<\/p>\n
Legend<\/p>\n
M: Matches played<\/p>\n
W: Wins<\/p>\n
L: Losses<\/p>\n
T: Ties<\/p>\n
N\/R: No results<\/p>\n
NRR: Net Run Rate<\/p>\n
Ded.: Deductions<\/p>\n
PTS: Total points<\/p>\n
Australians in IPL 2026<\/p>\n
Chennai Super Kings: Matt Short ($255k), Spencer Johnson ($255k, replaces Nathan Ellis ($340k))<\/p>\n
Delhi Capitals: Mitchell Starc ($2m)<\/p>\n
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Josh Hazlewood ($2.13m), Tim David ($510k)<\/p>\n
Punjab Kings: Marcus Stoinis ($1.9m), Ben Dwarshuis ($745k), Mitchell Owen ($510k), Cooper Connolly ($510k), Xavier Bartlett ($136k)<\/p>\n
Kolkata Knight Riders: Cameron Green ($3.5m)<\/p>\n
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins ($3.5m), Travis Head ($2.38m), Jack Edwards ($510k, withdrawn)<\/p>\n
Lucknow Super Giants: Josh Inglis ($1.49m), Mitchell Marsh ($578k)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rajasthan Royals clinched their third straight win in a rain-curtailed IPL game against Mumbai Indians Opening pair Yashasvi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-592321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}