Mumbai Indians lastly opened their account within the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League with a five-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals right here on Saturday. Opting to subject, MI restricted RR to 158 for six, regardless of a tremendous 52-ball 67 by Jos Buttler on the high. The second-highest scorer for RR was Ravichandran Ashwin (21 off 9 balls) who performed a cameo to take RR previous 150-run mark.
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In reply, MI chased down the goal in 19.2 overs with Suryakumar Yadav (51 off 39 balls) rising as the highest scorer. Yadav within the firm of Tilak Varma (35) added 81 to maintain MI within the hunt earlier than Tim David (20) completed the job.
“We could have scored few more runs. Dew came in and it was tough to bowl as the ball was getting wet. We changed the ball as it was getting really wet. Different venues are playing in different ways. Batting first here was tough as it was two-paced. Few more runs with the bat would have helped,” mentioned Rajasthan Royals skipper Sanju Samson.
Meanwhile Ravi Ashwin, who performed a cameo of 20 runs, reiterated that dew didn’t play an element within the sport in any respect else the rating would have been par. Mumbai chased down the overall with 4 overs to spare to register their maiden win of the season.
“I think if dew hadn’t played a part, that score would’ve been enough, but there was heavy dew, so felt it was 10-15 runs short,” said Ashwin. “158 was a competitive score. It was always going to be about how well we started. In fact, we had a very good powerplay and got one wicket more than what Mumbai had at the front. So I thought it was a reasonably good score to fight and we pretty much did well with whatever scores we had this season. I thought the wicket was a little sticky to begin with. In T20 cricket, if it’s going to be sticky and it’s going to be the same way, you just have to hope dew doesn’t kick in.”
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