Mumbai Indians got back to winning ways thanks to Quinton de Kock's brilliance with the bat that guided them to a comfortable 7 wicket victory over Rajasthan Royals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Thursday.

Chasing a target of 172, Sharma and de Kock gave MI an impressive start by amassing 49-runs for the opening partnership. While the MI skipper perished after scoring 14 off 17 balls, de Kock continued to torment the RR bowlers to hit his first half century this season that kept MI in the dominating position throughout the chase. 

After Suryakumar Yadav's cheap dismissal, the South African batter was joined by Krunal Pandya. The Protea hit the RR bowlers all over the fence to smash a scintillating 70 off 50 balls to ensure MI thrashed the Royals comfortably.

With de Kock's match winning unbeaten 70-run inning, the Rohit led side breached the 172-run target in 18.3 overs and rattled the Royals by 7 wickets. 

Earlier, MI captain Rohit Sharma had won the toss and invited the Sanju Samson led side to bat first. Royals were off to a great start with their openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (32 off 20) and Jos Buttler (41 off 32) smashing the MI bowlers all over the park in the power play.

MI's spinner Rahul Chahar dimmised the well set Buttler in the 8th over. Soon Jaiswal also fell prey to the same man in the 10th over. RR skipper Samson looked in fine tune as he smashed an impressive 42 off 27 balls before falling in the death overs. 

Shivam Dube's cameo (35 off 31) and David Miller's boundary off the final delivery powered the Royals to a competitive total of 171/4 in 20 overs. 

With this result, MI moved to the 4th spot on the IPL points table with three wins in their title defence campaign.