IPL: Rajasthan Royals climb to No.1 with dominant win over Mumbai Indians

Rajasthan Royals continued their ascendant tally successful the Indian Premier League 2026, defeating Mumbai Indians by 27 runs successful a rain-curtailed 11-over-a-side clash astatine the Barsapara Cricket Stadium successful Guwahati connected Tuesday.Leading the complaint was Yashasvi Jaiswal, who smashed a scintillating unbeaten 77 disconnected 32 balls, laced with 10 fours and 4 sixes. He shared a blistering 80-run opening basal with teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who hammered 39 disconnected conscionable 14 deliveries. The brace laid the instauration for Rajasthan’s imposing full of 150/3, which yet proved excessively overmuch for Mumbai.

The match, delayed by implicit two-and-a-half hours owed to rain, turned one-sided soon aft the Royals’ innings.

Mumbai Indians crumbled aboriginal successful the pursuit and were reduced to 46/5 wrong 5 overs, losing cardinal batters Ryan Rickelton, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya for single-digit scores. Despite immoderate precocious resistance, they finished astatine 123/9, slipping to their 2nd consecutive defeat.Chasing 151, Mumbai’s troubles began successful the precise archetypal implicit erstwhile Rickelton, aft hitting a six, miscued a rising transportation from Jofra Archer and was caught by Dhruv Jurel.

Suryakumar Yadav showed little intent with a six but fell soon aft to Nandre Burger, leaving Mumbai astatine 20/2.Sandeep Sharma past struck a important blow, trapping Rohit Sharma lbw - the sixth clip helium has dismissed the Mumbai skipper successful the IPL - arsenic the five-time champions slid further. Ravi Bishnoi tightened the screws by removing some Hardik Pandya and Tilak Varma successful speedy succession, efficaciously ending Mumbai’s hopes.

Earlier, Rajasthan Royals got disconnected to a flying commencement with Jaiswal hammering 22 runs successful the archetypal implicit disconnected Deepak Chahar. Sooryavanshi past took connected Jasprit Bumrah, smashing him for 2 sixes successful a fearless display. Jaiswal continued the onslaught, hitting Trent Boult for back-to-back sixes arsenic Rajasthan raced to 50 successful conscionable 16 balls.Sooryavanshi’s explosive sound ended erstwhile Shardul Thakur had him caught adjacent the boundary, portion AM Ghazanfar removed Jurel and skipper Riyan Parag. However, Jaiswal remained unbeaten till the end, ensuring Rajasthan Royals posted a match-winning full and climbed to the apical of the array with 3 consecutive wins.