IPL 2021: Match 24, MI vs RR – Who Said What

The 24^th match of the Indian Premier League saw action between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals. The five-time champions needed to turn tables badly and they did the same in today’s game by winning it by seven wickets. Winning the toss, MI invited Sanju Samson and company to build up with willows first. Jos Buttler (41 off 32) and Samson (42 off 27) fired yet again for their team as they posted a fine target of 171 runs on the board.

Quinton de Kock was declared as the player of the match for his sublime show with the bat after long. As Rajasthan moved up in their batting show, Yashashvi Jaiswal (32) and Shivam Dube (35) added in their vital contributions. While Rahul Chahar picked two wickets for his team, Jasprit Bumrah refused to leak runs in his overs as he conceded at 3.80.

Quinton de Kock rules the game

Chasing the target, skipper Rohit Sharma left the pitch early. However, Quinton de Kock fired with the bat for his team after quite some time. De Kock played a stunning knock of 70 runs off 50 deliveries. Krunal Pandya was sent up the order to handle responsibilities and did justice to the call by adding 39 runs off 26 deliveries. Chris Morris picked two wickets for RR while conceding at 8.20.

Losing skipper, Sanju Samson said:

We were a few runs short, 20-25 short. We built it up nicely and didn’t capitalise. I think they had a very decent bowling line-up, we also have a good bowling line-up. It’s just about our batters performing a little more and I’m sure we’ll do it. Till now our bowlers have done a good job. Our bowlers did well but it was a good wicket. It’s just about scoring more. The process to do that is to back ourselves and play some positive cricket.

Winning skipper, Rohit Sharma said:

We needed that win badly after a couple of losses. We did everything right today, right from ball one, and very clinical towards the end as well. Individuals took the responsibilities that were given to them, it was a collective effort. Guys were positive as they got to know we were going to Delhi, because it was a good pitch, not like Chennai! I thought the bowlers did the job for us. In the last 7 overs we gave around 50 runs with 7 seven wickets in hand for them. Playing the conditions is very important. We knew that we’re going to play on good pitches after Chennai. We didn’t adapt well as a team there, but having said, it looks like from here on the pitch will suit us. There’s a lot of discussion that happens around us, because there’s a way we want to play. It’s very easy to go down when we know they’re 110 in 12 overs, it’s very easy to lose confidence. But we stuck to our plans. Very happy with Quinny’s knock, we know how good he can be. Not to forget Krunal’s innings as well.

Player of the match, Quinton de Kock said:

To be totally honest it’s a better wicket than Chennai in general, it just came on better. We spoke about it, the coach and Rohit did ask us to come out and be positive today and that’s what we did. Enjoyed getting the team to the end, I don’t do that often. I just came out and tried to be positive, that’s what the coach said and I said sign me up, I want to be positive. There’s a way of going about it. Obviously I’ve played enough to know how to go about it.