RR vs MI Highlights, IPL 2024: Yashasvi Jaiswal scores fine ton after Sandeep Sharma’s 5-for; RR win 9 wickets

RR vs MI IPL 2024 Live Score: While Mumbai sit sixth in the points table, RR are the top-ranked side with six wins from seven games.

Rajasthan Royals vs Mumbai Indians IPL 2024 Highlights: Yashasvi Jaiswal returned to form with a superb unbeaten century to back up Sandeep Sharma’s 5-for as Rajasthan Royals thumped Mumbai Indians by 9 wickets at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Monday.

Jaiswal went past 50 for the first time this season and made it 104* off 60 balls, hitting the winning runs as well as RR stayed top of the table 7 wins in 8 matches.

KKR, DC, now MI: In IPL’s home-away format, are local pitch makers offering host teams enough home advantage?

Rishabh Pant (c) of Delhi Capitals checks the pitch before the start of the match 20 of the Indian Premier League season 17 (IPL 2024) between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals held at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on the 7th April 2024. (Vipin Pawar/Sportzpics)

The other night, with Sunrisers Hyderabad nearing another win away from home, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar pondered on the comms if merrier days were ahead for the team in their second half of the season. This, based on the fact that SRH are to play five of their seven remaining league games at their home ground. “Always good to play at home. You are more familiar with the conditions. You can ask the groundsman to make a pitch that suits you. SRH, if they score 250 plus totals, they are going to win,” Gavaskar said.

But does IPL offer teams that home advantage? “The franchise has no say regarding the wicket. It’s a clear instruction given to us by the BCCI,” Sujan Mukherjee, pitch curator at Eden Gardens tells The Indian Express. [READ MORE]