Mumbai achieve shock win against Rajasthan

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Thursday, 08 May 2008
Finally it seems the Mumbai Indians have found their form as they beat top IPL team Rajasthan Royals by an impressive seven wicket margin. This was Mumbai Indian’s 3rd successive win in IPL while Rajasthan Royals tasted their second defeat in seven matches. Mumbai Indians produced a superb all-round display to stun table-toppers Rajasthan Royals and recorded a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over them. Indian bowlers had the control throughout the match and they never gave any chance to the Rajasthan Royal batters after winning the toss. Ashish Nehra was the bowler of the day as he took three for 13 and he got good support from other bowlers like Dwayne Bravo, Rohan Raje and Dhawal Kulkarni each of them taking took two wickets. The Royals collapsed from 74 for two to 103 all out and set an easy target of 104 for the Mumbai team to chase. Mumbai Indians started their chasing well and put on 41 runs for the first wicket. Robin Uthappa top scored with 34 off 21 balls, including four fours and a six, as they completed the chase with 7 wickets in hand. After this match Mumbai Indians have 6 points and are now in 5th Position while Rajasthan will be on no.2 on avg. run rate with 10 points.