IPL 2025: Mumbai Indians achieve historic first in 13-years against Rajasthan Royals | Cricket News

Mumbai Indians’ gamers after successful the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 cricket match against Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur. (PTI)

Mumbai Indians secured a commanding 100-run victory over Rajasthan Royals on the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Thursday, with captain Hardik Pandya turning into solely the third MI skipper to achieve this feat at RR’s dwelling floor. The win featured excellent performances from the top-order batters and bowlers Trent Boult and Karn Sharma, who every claimed three wickets.
Pandya’s unbeaten 48 off 23 balls contributed to MI’s spectacular complete of 217/2 in the first innings. The staff’s bowling assault then dismantled RR, bowling them out for simply 117 runs in 16.1 overs.
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This victory marks a big milestone as solely two earlier MI captains, Harbhajan Singh in 2012 and Sachin Tendulkar in 2010, had managed to defeat RR in Jaipur. Since then, MI did win away to Royals however these wins Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad (in 2014) and DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai (in 2022). As far as Jaipur is anxious, RR had stitched 5 straight wins over MI on the Sawai Mansingh Stadium earlier than the emphatic loss on Thursday night.
MI skipper Pandya showcased his all-round skills by taking the wicket of Shubham Dubey in his sole over.

“Everyone is very clear and we are going back to simple cricket, it is working for us and hopefully it continues. We want to be humble, very disciplined and keep focusing. We could have got another 15 runs. What we were trying to speak to each other was to play percentage shots. Surya and I said there’s value for shots… Ro (Rohit) and Ryan batted the same way. I think it was absolutely fantastic. It is never about people getting chances; it’s about what is required in the situation. People are going back to batsmanship. As a group, the way we batted was proper batsmanship,” Pandya mentioned on the post-match presentation.

“We have to give credit to the way MI played. The way they batted, took the game a little deep, kept the 10 runs per over consistency, and accelerated in the end. As far as our batting is concerned, it wasn’t our day,” RR skipper Riyan Parag acknowledged.
The victory extends Mumbai Indians’ successful streak to 6 matches in the match. Despite dropping 4 of their first 5 video games, they’ve now climbed to the highest of the factors desk.