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Rajasthan won by 7 wkts | Rajasthan Royals Vs Mumbai Indians Live Score 9th T20 Match

So, that brings us to the end of our coverage of this game.
Let's take a look at some of the tweets:
@abdullah_0mar: Steve Smith is Tendulkar of 90s. #RAJvsMUM
@sidvee: Steve Smith has his maiden IPL fifty. Phew, I was little concerned he was only fit for international cricket and not the real deal
@sanjaymanjrekar: Incredible innings from Steve Smith. Even well directed yorkers can't stop this guy. One of the best innings this IPL. #RAJ #IPL2015
@fwildecricket: #MUM are the opposite of #RAJ - spend too much, spend badly, and get it tactically so wrong, time & time again. #IPL #RAJvMUM
@cricketaakash: Steve Smith and his love affair with Indians continues...what a player. Almost impossible to bowl to him in current form. #RAJ rocking.
@bhogleharsha: Mountain to climb for #MUM. Has been done before but form of Malinga & batting in 1st half worrisome. #PepsiIPL
Smith: 'I never get tired. It's my job to score runs and it was nice to contribute to the win tonight. I guess I am doing it pretty consistently (on shuffling across the crease). I have done it for a little while now and it's been successful. So, there's no need to change. It's nice to be in good form and score some runs. We were just trying to keep it around 10 or under that an over. We have got plenty of power-hitters in the end, so we knew that we could chase it. I didn't know about that, it's nice. I hope it continues and Rajasthan have won 3 now and hopefully, we can continue with this form throughout the tournament.'
Steven Smith is the Man of the Match for his unbeaten 79
Rohit: 'Talking about this game, we didn't start well with the bat. It was a poor performance with the bat. You have to bat well, if you want to win a game. Thanks to Corey (Anderson) and Pollard for getting us back into the game. We are missing a lot of things and that's why we lost today. It was a decent score, but we had something to bowl to. Rajasthan batted really well, but we got some work to do. We have to take responsibility with the bat and bowl better balls. Finch doesn't look good right now, he will go for a scan tomorrow and only then we will get to know.'
Earlier, Rajasthan's bowlers bowled with unrelenting control to stifle the batsmen and put them in a position of strength. However, Kieron Pollard and Corey Anderson plundered the opposition at will to power the visitors to a competitive total. In fact, Pollard even smacked Tim Southee for 20 runs in the 19th over. In the end though, Mumbai suffered their third loss in a row.
Steven Smith and Ajinkya Rahane played fluent hands as Rajasthan registered their third successive win. Both the batsmen laid the foundation by finding gaps with a precise metre of timing. Even after Rahane was dismissed, Smith played with a calm head on his shoulders to score a fifty and steer them home. In the 17th over, he took on the gauntlet of facing up to Lasith Malinga and collected three boundaries. For Mumbai, Vinay Kumar bowled with good control with the new ball.
The players walk off the field, shaking hands with each other. Smith was all smiles after the decision was displayed on the big screen. Rohit looked disappointed, but his team have been outplayed here
19.1Shreyas Gopal to James Faulkner. 1 run, flatter delivery from Gopal, Faulkner cracks it towards cover and sets off, the fielder dives to his right, picks the ball and fires the throw at the non-striker's end. Faulkner was struggling to make his ground, but just about makes it in when Shreyas Gopal disturbed the stumps. A direct-hit would have surely been out. The bat was on the line when the bowler hit the stumps, but it was inconclusive whether the bails were completely off the groove and Faulkner got the benefit of the doubt
Is that a run-out? The third umpire has been pressed into service but looks like Faulkner has made his ground. Have the bails been dislodged before Faulkner got his bat in? Looks touch and go, but the umpire deems it to be 'Not Out'. Rajasthan win the match, 3 out of 3 wins for them. Mumbai, on the other hand, have lost 3 in 3.
Shreyas Gopal [2.0-0-22-1] is back into the attack
Just 1 run needed off 6 balls now
End of over 19 ( 11 Runs )JAI 164/3 18.6Lasith Malinga to Steven Smith. FOUR, cracking drive! It was full and on the stumps, Smith backs away slightly and drives it inside-out wide of mid-off and the ball crashes into the fence, brings 50 of the partnership
18.5Lasith Malinga to Steven Smith. no run, yorker on the stumps, Smith squeezes it out back to the bowler, who fires in the throw at the striker's end, but it was way off target there

Updated at: 2015-04-14 23:52:29

Match details

Toss: Mumbai won the toss and elected to bat first

Umpires: Simon Fry (Australia) and Anil Chaudhary (India)

TV umpire: Krishnamachari Srinivasan (India)

Match referee: Chinmay Sharma (India)

PLAYING XI

Rajasthan Royals

Ajinkya Rahane, Sanju Samson(wk), Steven Smith(c), Karun Nair, Stuart Binny, Deepak Hooda, James Faulkner, Chris Morris, Tim Southee, Dhawal Kulkarni, Pravin Tambe

Mumbai Indians

Rohit Sharma(c), Aaron Finch, Parthiv Patel(wk), Unmukt Chand, Corey Anderson, Kieron Pollard, Jagadeesha Suchith, Vinay Kumar, Shreyas Gopal, Lasith Malinga, Pawan Suyal

Rajasthan Royals (RR) take on the Mumbai Indians (MI) in the 9th game of the Indian Premiere League (IPL) 2015 on April 14. Both these teams in the past have had history of playing some memorable games. Mumbai Indians in the last edition had come through to the knock-outs thanks to an outrageous win against Rajasthan Royals.

Shane Watson, the Royals skipper will want to avenge that defeat and get better of Mumbai Indians. Rohit Sharma, the Mumbai Indians captain on the other hand will hope for an encore to keep their record going against them. The match will played at Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera, Ahmedabad, a new home venue for the Royals.

The Royals will hope to quickly adjust to the conditions before hosting the star-studded line-up of Mumbai. Steven Smith, the Australian number three has been in tremendous form and he will be a player to watch out for in the crucial encounter.

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