(Cricket news) At the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, the Mumbai Indians defeated the Rajasthan Royals by a resounding 100 runs on Thursday. Hardik Pandya, the team’s captain, became just the third MI captain to accomplish this at the home field of the RR. The top-order batsmen and bowlers Trent Boult and Karn Sharma, who each took three wickets, put up fantastic displays in the victory.

MI achieved an outstanding score of 217/2 in the first innings thanks in part to Pandya’s undefeated 48 off 23 balls. After that, RR was completely destroyed by the team’s bowling attack, which dismissed them for a mere 117 runs in 16.1 overs.

Only two previous MI captains, Sachin Tendulkar in 2010 and Harbhajan Singh in 2012, had defeated RR in Jaipur, thus this triumph represents a major turning point. Since then, MI has defeated the Royals on the road, but those victories were at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai in 2022 and the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad in 2014. Regarding Jaipur, prior to the crushing defeat on Thursday night, RR had defeated MI five times in a row at Sawai Mansingh Stadium.

“Everyone is very clear and we are going back to simple cricket, it is working for us and hopefully it continues. We want to be humble, very disciplined and keep focusing. We could have got another 15 runs. What we were trying to speak to each other was to play percentage shots. Surya and I said there’s value for shots… Ro (Rohit) and Ryan batted the same way. I think it was absolutely fantastic. It is never about people getting chances; it’s about what is required in the situation. People are going back to batsmanship. As a group, the way we batted was proper batsmanship,” Pandya said at the post-match presentation.

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“We have to give credit to the way MI played. The way they batted, took the game a little deep, kept the 10 runs per over consistency, and accelerated in the end. As far as our batting is concerned, it wasn’t our day,” RR skipper Riyan Parag acknowledged.

The victory extends Mumbai Indians’ winning streak to six matches in the tournament. Despite losing four of their first five games, they have now climbed to the top of the points table.

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