IPL 7 Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians Report

44th match of IPL season 7 has been played between Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians at Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad. Mumbai with good all round batting and superb bowling performances won the match by 25 runs. MEK Hussey declared man of the match for his quick inning of 56 runs of 39 balls.

Earlier, Mumbai won the toss and opted to bat first. Mumbai with top orders good batting performances put 178 runs at the end of 20 overs. MEK Hussey and LMP Simmons started Mumbai inning with great confidence and made 120 runs partnership for the first wicket. Hussey made quick 56 of 39 balls and Simmons also played good inning of 62 runs of 51 balls. In later overs skipper RG Sharma played firing inning of 40 runs of just 19 balls.

Following target of 179 runs, Rajasthan could not made batter start and lost UBT Chand (2), SR Watson (5), SV Samson (2) and KK Cooper (5) very early. KK Nair played well and kep wicket in hand of his end. On other Rajasthan continued to lost wickets as Ankit Sharma departed scoring just 4 runs and STR Binny also went for 2 runs. KK Nair faught well but got out scoring 48 runs of 24 balls. In later overs BJ Hodge (40 of 30 balls) and JP Faulkner (29 of 19 balls) tried their level best but could not cross Mumbai totals in 20 overs and lost the match by 25 runs.

Thus, Mumbai got 2 points and Rajasthan disappointed with 0 points.