It was a homecoming that Mumbai Indians wouldn’t have been anticipating. After two losses within the first two matches of the IPL 2024, the Hardik Pandya-led facet was in determined want of some house consolation. But MI batters didn’t impress in opposition to a fiery Rajasthan Royals bowling as three of their prime 4 batters have been out on 0. They scored solely 125/9 – the bottom 1st innings at IPL 2024 thus far. The batters who fell for duck have been Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir and Dewald Brevis.

Former MI skipper Rohit Sharma fell for a golden duck (when a batter will get out on the primary ball she or he faces). It was his seventeenth duck within the IPL – the joint-most in  the event alongside Dinesh Karthik. The duo is adopted by Piyush Chawla (16 geese).

Rajasthan Royals’ Yuzvendra Chahal (3/11) and Trent Boult (3/22) stifled a struggling Mumbai Indians facet and restricted them to 125/9 of their Indian Premier League conflict in Mumbai on Monday. Boult struck early with a three-wicket burst contained in the powerplay and Chahal made life depressing for remainder of the batters within the following overs to return good figures 3/11 in 4 overs, accounting for Hardik Pandya (34), Tilak Varma (32) and Gerald Coetzee (4).

If Chahal suffocated the MI batters within the center overs whereas stopping each Pandya and Varma of their tracks, it was Boult who ran riot within the house facet’s prime order, dismissing Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir and Dewald Brevis for geese.

The tone was set within the first over itself by Boult who rocked the Mumbai Indians twice, together with the priced scalp of Rohit who was out for a golden duck.

Looking to get the texture of the ball on his bat maybe prompted Rohit to go for one which was angled away by Boult, and an outdoor edge was snaffled splendidly by Rajasthan ‘keeper-skipper Sanju Samson who grabbed it along with his proper hand placing in a dive.

Dhir (0) was responsible of strolling throughout the wickets and failing to cowl Boult’s in-swing, with the ball crashing into his pads. A DRS enchantment was finally burned because the ball monitoring confirmed it will have clipped the leg stump.

Mumbai’s state of affairs worsened when influence participant Brevis (0) performed one meekly to quick third on one other supply angling away from the right-hander off Boult within the third over, with Nandre Burger (2/32) taking a pointy reverse cupped catch.

Ishan Kishan (16) performed a number of enticing strokes however Burger discovered an outdoor edge off the left-hander’s bat with Samson finishing one other effective seize behind the wickets to maintain Mumbai Indians below the pump within the powerplay.

Pandya, who was booed from all components of the bottom right here, walked to an identical reception however a short fightback from him turned the detrimental noise into cheers.

The Mumbai skipper confirmed intent when he hit three fours off Burger within the sixth over, but it surely was Chahal who introduced an finish to Pandya’s resistance.

Chahal tossed one outdoors off-stump to make Pandya have a go at it, and the batter obliged with an enormous swing of the bat however the ball didn’t journey far sufficient.

The substitute fielder Rovman Powell learn the elevation and pace nicely to cowl a number of yards to his proper and take a effective diving catch, denying Pandya a chance to be a hero for his facet.

With PTI inputs

Varma did nicely on his half however a effective catch at quick third man by Ravichandran Ashwin reduce quick his keep.