RR vs MI highlights: Mumbai Indians end 8-match losing streak, get maiden win by beating Rajasthan Royals

Sams to Mitchell: OUT! Outstanding from MI. They build the pressure from both ends and finally the result comes. Sams get rid of Daryl Mitchell. The New Zealand batter was struggling to time the ball from the beginning and no ends up giving a simple catch to birthday boy Rohit Sharma.

RR 91/3 after 14.1 overs

Not often do you see Buttler struggling to hit the boundaries but this has been one such night. A combination of good bowling by MI and the slowness of the wicket one would have to say here.

RR 87/3 after 13 overs

Good over for MI! is having a good match so far. He has troubled Buttler with his pace and also the slower ones. The right-arm seamer has given only 8 runs in his 2 overs son far. 

RR 78/2 after 11 overs

Good comeback from Kartikeya after being hit for a four in his first ball of the over by Dary Mitchell. Five singles from there on, a productive over for the Royals.

RR 73/2 after 10 overs

OUT! Debutant Kumar Kartikeya gets the big wicket of RR captain Sanju Samson. Just the story of Samson. Gets off to a flyer and then hits a half-tracker straight to the fielder in the deep. Oh he would be mighty disappointed. Exactly the opposite scenes in the MI camp. They are chuffed for the youngster Kartikeya, who has his maiden IPL wicket.

RR 54/2 after 7.2 overs

Shokeeen to Samson: SIX! again. Another flighted delivery and another big six from Samson's bat. The RR captain has taken a likling to the offf-spinner. The previous one was over long off and this one over long on.

RR 53/1 after 7 overs

Shokeeen to Samson: SIX! Wow that is huge! Sanju Samson dances down the ground and blasts it over long-off for the maximum. That is certain to put the young off-spinner under pressure. Will be interesting to see how he responds.

Meredith to Buttler: OUCH! That must have hurt. A 140 km/h bouncer hits Buttler straight on the helmet. He was through with his shot early there. It appears to be a slow wicket. Buttler is having some treatment, never nice when you are hit on the cricket field.

Back-to-back fours from Jos Buttler. He attacks the young MI off-spinner just after he had removed the England keeper's opening partner.

RR 37/1 after 5 overs.

OUT! Hrithik Shokeen strikes for Mumbai Indians. Devdutt Padikkal goes for 15. It was flighted delivery, Padikkal wanted to hit the off-spinner ffor a six but ended up providing a simple catch to the long-off fielder. Maiden IPL wicket for young Shokeen.

RR 26/1 after 4.2 overs

Oh what is happening MI? Dedvdutt Padikkal hit back-to-back boundaries off Daniel Sams and provided a simple catch to third man but Tim David drops it. MI should have got both the RR openers out by now.

Bumrah to Buttler: FOUR! Oh how costly will that turn out to be? Daniel Sams misjudged it. He ran it from the fine leg boundary and the ball went over his head. It would have been regulation catch had he stayed on his mark. The ball landed right on the half volley on boundary hoardings. It results in a boundary. But a what good bouncer from Bumrah straight up to Buttler.

RR 7/0 after 1.4 overs

That is a good start by Daniel Sams. He beat Devdutt Padikkal's bat in the last delivery and hit the right areas throughout. Only 3 runs from the first over.

RR 3/0 after 1 over

Rajasthan Royals openers Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal are out in the middle. Daniel Sams will start the proceedings for MI.

The players of both sides have lined up to applaud the legendary Shane Warne who died last month. Warne was the first captain of the Royals and he also led them to the IPL title in the inaugural edition in 2008. Warne is referred as the ‘first Royal’.

Preparation has been good, most of it has been done before the tournament. Hopefully we have some fun in the middle, that's what we have been missing. We want to try and see how we enjoy ourselves. It's important to stick together as a group: MI captain Rohit Sharma at the toss.

Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Tim David, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Kieron Pollard, Hrithik Shokeen, Daniel Sams, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya, Riley Meredith

Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Daryl Mitchell, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Sen

Mumbai Indians have brought back Tim David and handed debut to Kumar Kartikeya.

RR are playing an unchanged XI.

Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma wins the toss and opts to bowl against Rajasthan Royals.

• 60: Jos Buttler needs 60 more runs to complete 2000 IPL runs for RR, he will be the 4th batsman to reach this

landmark.

• 4: With more sixes Jos Buttler will complete 100 IPL sixes for RR, he would be the 3rd RR batsman after Sanju

Samson-123 and Shane Watson-109 sixes.

• 2: Shimron Hetmyer needs 2 more sixes to complete 50 IPL sixes.

• 2: With two more wickets Y Chahal (24) will be the 2nd highest wicket taker vs MI in IPL, he will surpass P

Chawla and Amit Mishra with 25 wickets.

• 16*: Rohit Sharma has not scored a fifty in his last 16 IPL innings, his last fifty (63) came vs PBKS at Chennai in

2021

• 1: Rohit Sharma needs 1 more six to complete 200 T20 sixes for MI (IPL + CLT20)

This pitch - it has been used before, so it doesn't look uniform in the grass covering. Looks a little bit patchy and it's dusty. The spinners are going to come into their own today.  This pitch will not be easy to bat on. The ball will not come on at a uniform pace, it'll be two-paced: Graeme Swann with the pitch report.

Kieron Pollard has been an absolute legend for the Mumbai Indians, make no mistakes about that but the West Indies' all-rounder has been rather inconsistent for the last two-three seasons. Pollard has scored only 90 runs at an average of 16 and his strike rate of 127 has been an even bigger worry.

Yuzvendra Chahal with 18 wickets has hogged most of the limelight but the experienced Ravichandran Ashwin has slowly but surely managed to make his presence felt. In the last four games for RR Ashwin has bowled tight line and has picked 6 wickets at an average of 20 and strikes after every 16 balls.

A few eye brows were raised when Mumbai Indians shelled out ₹8.25 crore for Tim David. The Australian-born right-hander plays for Singapore and has shown his might in the Big Bash League. But what was even more baffling was MI's decision to play him only two matches. The big hitter could well do with some backing from the MI management.