Hardik's hat-trick of losses in the IPL, Rajasthan tops the points list thanks to Parag's dominance

Mumbai lost three matches in a row in IPL. The five-time champions have been under pressure since the start of the competition. On Monday, the Hardiks played their first match at home. Their double batting failure.

Nothing seems to be going right for Mumbai Indians in IPL. Hardik Pandya’s team was under pressure at the beginning of the competition after losing three consecutive matches. Mumbai played their first match at home on Monday. Mumbai lost to Rajasthan Royals by 6 wickets in 22 yards of Wankhede. Rajasthan scored 127 runs for 4 wickets in 15.3 overs in response to Hardik’s 125 runs for 9 wickets.

Mumbai Indians’ batting disaster at home. Hardik’s batsmen could not put up the expected fight against Rajasthan Royals. Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal are finding it difficult to handle the ball for the Mumbai batsmen. Rajasthan captain Sanju Samson won the toss and decided to field. Mumbai could not take advantage of the opportunity to bat first in the familiar 22 yards.

Hardik lost wickets at regular intervals from the beginning of the innings. Although Ishan Kishan scored 16 runs off 14 balls to open, Mumbai returned for zero runs after three batters. Ishan hit 2 fours and 1 six. Other openers Rohit Sharma, No.3 Naman Dhir and No.4 Dewald Brevis failed to score any runs. Kiwi fast bowler Boult misses out on a hat-trick.

Parag's dominance

After losing 4 wickets for 20 runs, Tilak Verma and Hardik took charge of Mumbai’s innings. They scored 56 runs in the fifth wicket partnership. Tilak’s 32-run innings came from 29 balls. He hit two sixes. Mumbai captain made 34 off 21 balls. 6 fours came from Hardik’s bat. Piyush Chawla (3), Gerald Coetzee (4) did not get runs. Team David put up a bit of a fight at the end. He scored 17 runs off 24 balls with 1 four. Yashpreet Bumrah remained unbeaten with 8 runs. Akash Madhwal remained unbeaten on 4 runs.

Rajasthan’s most successful bowler is Yuzvendra Chahal. He took 3 wickets for just 11 runs. The spinner who was left out of the national team proved himself once again. Boult took 3 wickets for 22 runs. Nandre Berger took 2 wickets with 32 runs. 1 wicket for 30 runs by Abesh Khan. Only Ravichandran Ashwin did not get a wicket.

However, the beginning of the innings was not good for Rajasthan. The two openers, Yasswi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler, got out quickly. Yasaswi scored 10 runs in 6 balls. 13 runs from 16 balls came from Butler’s bat. Sanju, who dropped to number three, was also dismissed for 12 runs off 10 balls. Chasing 126 runs, Rajasthan lost 3 wickets for 48 runs and came under some pressure. However, they were unable to win the match. Ryan Parag led the team’s innings at number four.
Ashwin accompanied him. 16 runs off 16 balls from the experienced off-spinner’s bat. Hit 1 four. Shubham Dubey was the impact player at the end of 22 yards with Ryan. An aggressive unbeaten innings of 54 runs from 39 balls came from Ryan’s bat. 5 fours and 3 sixes came from his bat. Shubham remained unbeaten with 8 runs from 6 balls.

Mumbai’s most successful bowler Madhwal took 3 wickets with 20 runs. 1 wicket for 23 runs South Africa’s young Koena Mafakar. Bumrah did not get a wicket despite spending 26 runs. The rest of the Mumbai bowlers could not do much.