Rajasthan Royals defeated Mumbai Indians by 9 wickets on their homeground on Monday thanks to the performance of Yashsvi Jaiswal (104*) and Sandeep Sharma (5 wickets). With this victory, Rajasthan Royals strengthened their claim for the playoffs. At the same time, the path of playoffs has become more difficult for Mumbai Indians. This was Royals' second win over Mumbai in the current season.

After the amazing bowling of Sandeep Sharma (5/18), Rajasthan Royals on Monday strengthened their claim for the playoffs by trampling Mumbai Indians by nine wickets on the strength of the unnecessary century of young batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal (104*). This was Rajasthan's seventh win in eight matches and is just one step away from reaching the playoffs.

Mumbai had set a target of 180 runs in front of Rajasthan, which he achieved by losing 18.3 wickets. This is Rajasthan's second win over Mumbai in this session.

Yashasvi Jaiswal, who was selected by the player of the series after scoring more than 700 runs in the Test series against England, appeared in his same color against Mumbai Indians on Monday. In the last seven innings, it was not possible to see Yashasvi, who scored 24, 5,10, 0, 24, 39 and 19 in the last seven innings that the batsman had scored two consecutive double centuries in the series against England before the IPL.

After failing to play a consecutive big innings, questions were also being raised about Yashasvi's selection in the T20 World Cup, but this batsman showed that it would not be so easy for the selectors to ignore him. Yashasvi scored a century in 59 balls, scoring nine sixes and seven sixes. Yashasvi has submitted his claim for the upcoming T20 World Cup by scoring a century.

He is the second Indian batsman after Virat Kohli, who scored a century in this session. This is the second century of Yashasvi, who played domestic cricket for Mumbai, he is the second century in the IPL and he has scored both centuries against Mumbai Indians. The last time he scored his first century on Wankhede.

• Sandeep's return

Apart from Yashasvi, Sandeep Singh contributed to Rajasthan's victory. Sandeep took five wickets for only 18 runs. Mumbai batsmen had no response to Sandeep Sharma's balls. Sandeep Sharma, who hunted Ishan and Suryakumar in the powerplay, also bowled brilliantly in the final over.

Mumbai was at one time moving towards a score of more than 190, but Sandeep, who came in the last over, broke the first ball and made a dent in Mumbai's intentions by dismissing Tilak. He stopped Mumbai at 179 with the wicket of Koetje on the next ball and Tim David on the fifth ball. Sandeep was not bought by anyone at the auction held in 2022. Rajasthan then included him in the team as an alternative to the famous Krishna.

Sandeep could not play the initial match due to injury in this session, this was the third match in this session and he performed the best of IPL career with five wickets. He is the third bowler to do so in this session. Before him, Jaspreet Bumrah and Yash Thakur took five wickets.