IPL 2021 MI vs RR Highlights: Quinton de Kock fifty guides Mumbai Indians to 7-wicket win against Rajasthan Royals

Umpire, followed by MI and RR openers have walked out.

Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler have walked out to open.

Trent Boult with the new ball.

It's show time!

In Delhi's heat, which team will come out on top? MI or RR?

•Rohit Sharma is 5 sixes away from completing 400 sixes across T20s.

•Trent Boult is 3 wickets away from completing 150 wickets across T20s.

•Quinton de Kock is 5 sixes away from completing 250 sixes across T20s.

•Nathan Coulter Nile is 8 catches away from completing 50 catches across T20s.

•Hardik Pandya is 4 catches away from completing 50 catches across T20s.

•Chris Morris is 5 sixes away from completing 100 sixes across T20s.

•This is 150th match across T20s for Jaydev Unadkat.

•David Miller is 62 runs away from completing 2000 runs in IPL.

•Hardik Pandya is 1 catch away from completing 50 catches in IPL.

•Krunal Pandya is 1 wicket away from completing 50 wickets in IPL.

We would have liked to bowl first. We can see some grass, but I think it's good for batting and bowling. We need to bat better. We play every game in a different perspective. Captaincy is getting better and better, first game was tough. Really enjoying this role.

"We are going to field first. The pitch looks alright, looks a good pitch, better than Chennai. Looking to chase the total. This looks much better. We want to play fearless cricket, hopefully, the guys take the responsibility. Ishan is out and Nathan Coulter Nile is in. You got to pick your best XI and find the right balance as well."

Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Shivam Dube, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Riyan Parag, Chris Morris, Jaydev Unadkat, Chetan Sakariya, Mustafizur Rahman

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult

Team News: Nathan Coulter-Nile replaces Ishan Kishan

Mumbai Indians won the toss, opt to bowl

"Like we saw yesterday, it's a good surface. There is a good covering of grass and we've seen over the years that whenever the pitches here have grass, it tends to play well. The groundsmen are constantly watering it due to the heat so might start a bit tacky but should get better and better as the game progresses. Teams might prefer chasing due to this reason," says Ajit Agarkar on the broadcast.

• Pacer Chris Morris seems to be getting back in rhythm in the ongoing IPL 2021.

• He has picked up 9 wickets so far from 5 matches this season at the bowling SR of 12.0.

• This is the joint 3rd best SR for a Rajasthan Royals bowler in a single season.

• This is also the 4th best SR in this season among the 39 bowlers who has bowled 10+ overs so far.

• Moreover, his successful return is because of his brilliant death bowling in this IPL.

Here's our RR's predicted XI for this game:

Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson (c & wk), Shivam Dube, David Miller, Riyan Parag, Rahul Tewatia, Chris Morris, Jaydev Unadkat, Chetan Sakariya, Mustafizur Rahman

Here's our MI's predicted XI for this game:

MI's predicted XI vs RR: Rohit Sharma (C), Quinton de Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (WK), Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah

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Most prolific batsmen: Kieron Pollard - 300 | Sanju Samson - 371

Highest Individual score: 81 By Quinton De Kock | 94* By Jos Buttler

Most Successful Bowler: 11 Wickets | Shreyas Gopal - 6 Wickets

Best Bowling Figure In An Innings: 4/20 By Jasprit Bumrah | 2/21 By Shreyas Gopal

vs KKR: Won by 6 wickets

vs RCB: Lost by 10 wickets

vs CSK: Lost by 45 Runs

vs DC: Won by 3 wickets

vs PBKS: Lost by 1 4 Runs

vs PBKS: Lost by 9 Wickets

vs DC: Lost by 6 Wickets

vs SRH: Won by 13 Runs

vs KKR: Won by 10 Runs

vs RCB: Lost by 2 Wickets

MI leg spinner Rahul Chahar has been the brightest spots for the team so far. He's currently among the top wicket-takers with 9 wickets in 5 matches.

Rajasthan Royals are the only team in the IPL to have three left-arm seamers - Jaydev Unadkat, Mustafizur Rahman and Chetan Sakariya - in their XI. And all of three of them have been pretty consistent with the ball so far. Despite being similar in the style of bowling, both Undakat and Sakariya have been very impressive with the new ball for RR.

Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya and Kieron Pollard - referred as the 'engine room' of the Mumbai Indians batting line-up have so far failed live up to the expectations in this IPL. And the results are there for everyone to see. MI, despite getting off to decent starts, have not been able to put up the big score on board. Rohit Sharma would hope that his trusted trio can regain their lost form aganst RR today.

Pacer Chris Morris seems to be getting back in rhythm in the ongoing IPL 2021. He has picked up 9 wickets so far from 5 matches this season at the bowling SR of 12.0. His successful return is because of his brilliant death bowling in this IPL. Morris' average of 7.43 in the death overs is the bests among 20 bowlers who have bowled 4+ overs in the last 4 overs of the innings in this IPL. He also has the joint 2nd most wickets in death overs of IPL 2021.

MI promoted Ishan Kishan in their last match against PBKS ahead of Suryakumar Yadav, which did not fare well as Ishan failed to hit the blocks and ate up a lot of deliveries. Former cricketers also criticized MI for that move. Suryakumar Yadav is expected to get his place back at No.3 against RR.

Mumbai Indians are certainly the most dominating team in the IPL with the maximum number of victories in the tournament.

However, Rajasthan is the only team which has managed to match up to the Mumbai Indians throughout the IPL.

In the 22 matches between these two teams both MI and RR have won 11 each.

Mumbai and Rajasthan are the only rivals with more than 10 encounters and equal number of wins and defeats against each other in the tournament.

Hello and welcome to the live coverage of IPL 2021 match No.24 between the defending champions Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals in New Delhi today. This is a very important game in the context of the league. RR just came back from a string of defeats while MI have suffered successive losses.