IPL 3: Mumbai Indians won by 37 runs against Rajasthan Royals

Because of Sachin Tendulkar’s 89* runs in 59 balls against Rajasthan Royals in Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur finalize Mumbai Indians place in Semi Final.

Host Rajasthan Royals won toss and chose field first. In first 4 overs, it seems that Rajasthan Royal will easily stop Mumbai Indians at 120 Runs. RR took 3 wickets of MI in first 4 over but could not break Partnership of Sachin Tendulkar (89* in 59 balls) and Duminy (31 runs in 32 balls). After wicket of Duminy, Tendulkar has done other partnership with Pollard (25 runs in 13 balls) and gave target of 175 runs to Rajasthan Royals. Sachin has done his fifth century in this IPL season and ranked top in high scorer in IPL 3. Watson has taken 3 wickets of MI.

Chasing 175 target, Rajasthan royals’ start was not good. Team loose early wickets in Power play over only. Lumb (8 runs in 6 balls), Ojha (0 runs in 5 balls), Fazal (10 runs in 15 balls) and Watson (1 run in 2 balls) couldn’t help Team to give good start. Jhunjhunwala (22 runs in 22 balls) and Voges (28 runs in 27 balls) tried to save match but they were not able to make enough big partnership. Even Yusuf Pathan were not able to play any big score and gave easy catch by his very poor shot. he has just added 10 runs.

Raut (20 runs in 17 balls) and Dole (30 runs in 18 balls) had helped Rajasthan Royal to reduce distance between team score and Target. Rajasthan Royal has made 137 runs in 8 wickets loss match by 37 runs.

This is lowest score by Rajasthan Royal in this stadium and this is first loss faced by Rajasthan Royal in this stadium.

Sachin Tendulkar was awarded for man of the match for his 89* runs inning.

Summary of Score
Mumbai Indians : 174/5 in 20 overs
Rajasthan Royals : 137/8 in 20 overs