RR vs MI IPL 2024 Highlights: Yashasvi Jaiswal's century guides Rajasthan Royals to clinical win

And there it is. Jaiswal cuts this one for a four and guides RR to a clinical win over MI. A 9-wicket win for the hosts as they thrash MI in Jaipur

And Jaiswal is back. He is back with a bang!! He gets to his second IPL hundred with a single

RR are on verge of winning this and Jaiswal is closing in on a hundred. RR need 10 and Jaiswal need five for a ton.

RR are bossing this. Jaiswal is looking extremely good today. RR need only 45 from the last six and have nine wickets in hand. This is RR's game to lose now

Jaiswal gets to his first fifty of IPL 2024. Pushes this ball to the leg side for a single, raises his bat and flexes his muscle to celebrate.

Here's the opening Mumbai wanted. Piyush Chawla comes for his first over and gets Jos Buttler. This was a skiddy ball that stayed low and was a goggly too. Buttler was beaten all ends and the timber breaks. MI get the first

And the game has resumed with Mohammad Nabi bowling the 7th over. Good news, no overs have been lost. Overs start losing if one hour has been wasted. 

The rain has stopped and the covers are taken off. The play will resume at 10:45 PM. It had stopped previously too and the game was set to resume at 10:33 but the rain had come back. Now we are set to see the action again

The Royals have made a good start but rain has come down to stop the play at Sawai Mansingh. The DLS par score after 6 overs is 41. RR are at 61/0 and are well ahead

The Royals have made a fine start with Buttler and Jaiswal. They have safely negotiated Bumrah and Coetzee till now. RR have made 35/0 from their 4 overs.

The Royals openers are out in the middle and they look for a strong start. Buttler has come in as impact sub for Chahal. Hardik opened the attack and went for 11 in the opening over.

Sandee Sharma takes three wickets in the final over and MI finish at 179/9 in their 20 overs. Only three runs from the final over and Sandeep has a fifer. A brilliant display of bowling by him. Nehal and Tilak Varma were the stars for MI with their 99-run stand but RR would be happy with the work they have done.

Hardik Pandya came and went back early for run-a-ball 10. Tim David is alongside Tilak as MI look for strong finish.

And finally the breakthrough for RR. Trent Boult comes and breaks the 99-run stand with a slower bouncer. Nehal has been caught out at backward point and he walks back for 49.

Tilak Varma gets to his fifty in style with a six. He has been vital in this act of rebuilding the innings. He gets to his fifty in 38 balls. 

The two youngsters Tilak and Nehal Wadhera are out in the middle and are rebuilding for MI. After the loss of four wickets, these two have stitched a very crucial stand and have kept the scoreboard ticking as well.

And there's the milestone wicket for the spin wizard. Yuzi Chahal gets the 200th wicket in IPL. He becomes the first player in history to do so.

More joy for the Royals. Sandeep Sharma get Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav in quick succession and MI are three down now. Are we seeing a reply of the previous face-offs between these two?

Ohh another first-over dismissal for Trent Boult. He has a knack for picking wickets in the opening over. He gets Rohit Sharma caught out as Sanju Samson takes a high-catch

Rajasthan Royals Impact Subs: Jos Buttler, Keshav Maharaj, Shubham Dubey, Navdeep Saini, Tom Kohler-Cadmore

Mumbai Indians Impact Subs: Nuwan Thushara, Akash Madhwal, Naman Dhir, Shams Mulani, Dewald Brevis

It will be an IPL debut for Nuwan Thushara. He played for MI Cape Town in the SA20 and picked 8 wickets in his 5 matches in the 2024 season

Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Mohammad Nabi, Gerald Coetzee, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah

We had a slightly different idea about the toss so it’s okay. You know the nature of the tournament, it’s a very long tournament, we had a five day break and we discussed about our plans, it’s about focusing about the system and the process. We have played lots of games here, we know how the wicket behaves. MI are known to come back hard in the tournament so we have to play well. We have had Sandeep Sharma back to our side and Kuldeep Sen misses out.

We are gonna bat first, looks like a good wicket, we didn't see dew in the last couple of days hence the decision to bat first. It's a very surreal feeling to play the 100th game for the franchise, started my journey with MI, I'm very grateful. We got three changes - Nuwan, Wadhera and Piyush Chawla come in. Shepherd, Madhwal, and Shreyas Gopal go out.

MI have made three changes to their team. Piyush Chawla, Nehal Wadhera and Nuwan Thushara come in

Hardik Pandya has won the toss in his 100th match for MI. Mumbai will be batting first.

"There's been four games (at this venue this season), teams batting first have won twice, teams fielding first have also won twice. Spinners haven't necessarily dominated over seamers. When you look at the team scores, they have been around 180-190, high, but not too high at the same time. Tonight, we are in the middle as well - boundary sizes square - 67m either side, straight - 76m. This pitch looks very very beautiful, it's dry, it's hard and it's even. Why isn't there a score over 200? I think one of the reasons is players presently like bounce and there's not a lot of moisture in this pitch. Moisture is what creates bounce and that's why it's very difficult to play the bowlers that are bowling directly straight at the stumps. The players are a little hesitant to score off every ball or play cross-batted shots. You'd still see a score close to 200 because it's beautiful to bat on but to get over 200, you need a bit of bounce. Nothing to fear for the batters, but they got to be very careful playing the cross-batted shots. Two great batting teams, I think we are in for a great treat," Natalie Germanos and Brian Lara say in their pitch report.

RR right on top. They are the side which is one of the most difficult to beat. RR have six wins in seven games and stand in extremely good position to qualify for the playoffs. MI are on 7th with three wins in seven games.

It's nearly time for the Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians clash in match 38 in the Indian Premier League 2024. High-flying Royals are up against a hot and cold Mumbai team, which is trying to find its feet in the league stage of the tournament.