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The 14th match of IPL 2024 was between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals. The match was held at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to bowl.
Mumbai Indians Innings:
Mumbai Indians did not start well at all. Mumbai Indians’ batters struggled against the swing bowling of Rajasthan Royals’ two left-arm fast bowlers – Trent Boult and Nandre Burger. Trent Boult took two wickets in the last two balls of the first over. Rohit Sharma was out for 0 runs and then Naman Dhir was also out for 0 runs. Trent Boult took another wicket in the third over. This time he dismissed Dewald Brevis. Dewald Brevis also failed to score any runs. Nandre Burger dismissed Ishan Kishan in the 4th over. He scored 16 runs off 14 balls. At the end of 4 overs, Mumbai Indians scored only 20 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.
After that, Hardik Pandya and Tilak Varma started playing aggressively and at the end of 6 overs of powerplay, Mumbai Indians scored 46 runs for 4 wickets. They made a partnership of 56 runs in 36 balls and with this partnership, Mumbai Indians was able to improve the situation a lot. Yuzvendra Chahal broke this partnership in the 10th over. He dismissed Hardik Pandya. Hardik Pandya scored 34 runs off 21 balls with 6 fours. Tilak Varma also played well, scoring 32 off 29 balls with 2 sixes. he was also dismissed by Yuzvendra Chahal in the 14th over. After that, the wickets of Mumbai Indians continued to fall and at the end of 20 overs, they scored 125 runs for 9 wickets.
For Rajasthan Royals, Trent Boult and Yuzvendra Chahal took 3 wickets each, Nandre Burger took 2 wickets and Avesh Khan took 1 wicket.
Rajasthan Royals Innings:
Rajasthan Royals came to bat with a target of 126 runs needed to win. Like Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals did not start well as Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed in the first over by Kwena Maphaka. This was the Maiden IPL wicket for Maphaka. After that, Sanju Samson came to bat. He and Jos Buttler started building the innings but their partnership was broken in the 5th over. Akash Madhwal dismissed Sanju Samson. He scored 12 runs. Jos Buttler got out in the 7th over. He scored 13 runs. He was also dismissed by Akash Madhwal.
Then Riyan Parag and Ravichandran Ashwin put on a partnership of 40 runs. Ravichandran Ashwin was dismissed by Akash Madhwal in the 13th over. Mumbai Indians could not take any more wickets after that. Riyan Parag played superbly and scored an unbeaten 54 off 29 balls with 5 fours and 3 sixes. He scored two consecutive half-centuries in this match. In 15.3 overs, Rajasthan Royals scored the required runs to win. They scored 127 runs for the loss of 4 wickets.
Akash Madhwal took 3 wickets and Kwena Maphaka took 1 wicket for Mumbai Indians.
The summary of the scorecard of this match is given below.
Scorecard Summary:
| Mumbai Indians Innings (125/9 in 20 overs) | Rajasthan Royals Bowling |
| Hardik Pandya 34 (21) | Yuzvendra Chahal 11/3 (4 overs) |
| Tilak Varma 32 (29) | Trent Boult 22/3 (4 overs) |
| Tim David 17 (24) | Nandre Burger 32/2 (4 overs) |
| Rajasthan Royals Innings (127/4 in 15.3 overs) | Mumbai Indians Bowling |
| Riyan Parag 54* (39) | Akash Madhwal 20/3 (4 overs) |
| Ravichandran Ashwin 16 (16) | Kwena Maphaka 23/1 (2 overs) |
| Jos Buttler 13 (16) |
Result:
Rajasthan Royals won the match by 6 wickets.
Player Of The Match:
Trent Boult was the player of the match.