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NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Royals defeated Mumbai Indians by 30 runs to corroborate their spot successful the playoffs successful their IPL 2026 lucifer played connected Sunday astatine Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. With this result, Rajasthan finished connected 16 points and joined Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Gujarat Titans and Sunrisers Hyderabad successful the knockout stage.
MI’s decision besides ended their campaign, arsenic they finished ninth successful the table.Batting first, Rajasthan Royals posted 205 for eight. The innings was shaped by precocious acceleration, with 73 runs coming successful the past 5 overs aft a dilatory commencement earlier successful the innings. Jofra Archer played a cardinal relation with the bat arsenic well, scoring 32 disconnected 15 balls, hitting 3 sixes and a 4 to assistance the full past 200. Other contributors included Yashasvi Jaiswal (27), Dhruv Jurel (38) and Dasun Shanaka (28).
Ravindra Jadeja, coming successful astatine No. 9, added 3 boundaries successful the last overs to propulsion the people further.
Rajasthan’s commencement was mixed. Much of the absorption was connected Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Yashasvi Jaiswal astatine the top, but Sooryavanshi fell aboriginal for 4. Jaiswal looked successful bully interaction successful his abbreviated stay. He deed 2 large sixes disconnected Chahar and besides sent Will Jacks implicit long-off for different maximum, but his innings ended connected 27 erstwhile helium was caught aft a starring borderline disconnected a fuller delivery.
At 33 for two, Rajasthan were successful trouble.Captain Riyan Parag could not person his commencement into a large score. He played a fewer attacking shots but was dismissed successful the sixth implicit aft a mistimed changeable was caught by Tilak Varma disconnected AM Ghazanfar (1/45). Dhruv Jurel besides played a dependable sound of 38 disconnected 26 balls, hitting 3 fours and 2 sixes, but could not afloat accelerate the innings.Dasun Shanaka added momentum with a speedy 29 disconnected 15 balls, including 3 sixes, but his innings ended owed to a mix-up with Jurel successful the 11th over.
Despite losing wickets, Rajasthan managed to scope a competitory total, helped by Archer’s precocious hitting.In reply, Mumbai Indians were restricted to 175 for nine. Their pursuit began poorly arsenic the apical bid collapsed early. Rohit Sharma (0 disconnected 4), Naman Dhir (6 disconnected 5), Ryan Rickelton (12 disconnected 7) and Tilak Varma (3 disconnected 7) each got retired cheaply, leaving MI nether pressure.Suryakumar Yadav
kept MI successful the contention with a beardown 60-run innings. He built 2 important partnerships, archetypal adding 63 runs for the 4th wicket with Will Jacks (33), and aboriginal 48 runs with skipper Hardik Pandya (34 disconnected 16 balls) for the sixth wicket.
For a period, MI looked similar they could pursuit the target.However, Rajasthan regained power successful the last overs of the match. Jofra Archer finished his spell with fantabulous figures of 3 for 17 successful 4 overs, including the wicket of Hardik Pandya. Nandre Burger past removed Suryakumar Yadav, ending MI’s resistance.The dismissal of Suryakumar proved decisive arsenic Mumbai’s hopes ended there. Rajasthan’s bowling portion held their nervus to adjacent retired a comfy win, securing their playoff spot and eliminating Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders successful the process.
