With Yashasvi Jaiswal's brilliant century, Rajasthan Royals lost by 9 wickets against Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday.
Rajasthan, which started with a target of 180 runs, won by adding 183 runs for 1 wicket in 18.4 overs. Yashasvi and Jos Buttler shared a 74-run partnership for the first wicket for Rajasthan, who started strongly.
Yashasvi and Sanju Samson led the team to victory after Buttler scored 35 runs. Yashasvi, who played 60 balls, remained 104 not out with 9 fours and 7 sixes. Sanju played 28 balls and scored 38 not out with 2 sixes and 2 fours.
Piyush Chawla took the only wicket for Mumbai.
Before that, Mumbai won the toss and scored 179 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs along with Tilak Verma's fifty. The middle order took care of Mumbai who lost 3 important wickets while adding 20 runs. Opener Rohit Sharma was out for 6 runs and Ishan Kishan was out without opening the account.
Mumbai was under pressure when Suryakumar scored 10 runs in 8 balls at number three. After that, Tilak, Mohammad Nawi, Nehal Vader handled the innings. Tilak scored 65 runs off 45 balls with 5 fours and 3 sixes. Nehal missed his half-century by one run. He scored 49 runs off 24 balls by hitting 3 fours and 4 fours. Navi 23, Hardik Pandya added 10 runs.
Sandeep Sharma of Rajasthan took 5 wickets for 18 runs in 4 overs. Trent Boult took 2 wickets, Avesh Khan and Yuzvendra Chahal took 1 wicket each.
Sandeep Sharma became Player of the Match due to his exceptional bowling performance of 5 wicket-haul by giving only 18 runs in his 4 over spell.
With 7 wins and 1 loss in 8 matches, Rajasthan is at the top with 14 points. With equal 10 points, Kolkata Knight Riders is second and Sunrisers Hyderabad is third. Seventh place Mumbai has 6 points.




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