Rajasthan beat Mumbai by 7 wickets

Rajasthan Royals 95 for 3 (Botha 45*, Munaf 2-18) beat Mumbai Indians 94 for 8 (Botha 3-6, Amit 2-14, Menaria 2-20) by seven wickets


Johan Botha scored an easy 44 to back up his three-wicket pull as Rajasthan Royals clinch a seven-wicket triumph over table-topping Mumbai Indians in their in Jaipur.

All-rounder Botha helped restrict Mumbai to a worthless 94 for four, a total which the home side overhauls with 11 balls to spare. Batting first after losing the toss, Mumbai lost Davy Jacobs and Sachin Tendulkar in consecutive overs from Amit Singh and Ashok Menaria correspondingly.

Mumbai desirable Ambati Rayudu and Rohit Sharma to build a partnership, but Menaria struck again by having Rayudu trapped and bowled in the ninth over. Rohit Sharma (13) was then snare by Shane Warne, who ended with figures of one for 13 off four overs.

Kieron Pollard and Andrew Symonds added 18 off 33 balls before the previous was attentive lbw by Botha, who go on to claim Symonds and Rajagopal Sathish in his next over. Singh then abridged Mumbai to 83 for eight by bowling Lasith Malinga. Ali Murtaza and Harbhajan Singh (10 not out) help the visitors finish on 94 for eight, their lowest total in the IPL.

In reply, Rajasthan overcome the near the beginning loss of Rahul Dravid - caught by Tendulkar off Munaf Patel - as Shane Watson and Botha took the team to 46 for one at halfway. But Malinga put an end to the 39-run place by forcing Watson (26) to play a short-pitched release which he edge to the wicketkeeper.

Ross Taylor joined Botha at 56 for two and the duo brings the condition down to 23 off the last five overs. Pollard and Malinga unsuccessful to pull off anything dramatic, but Patel manage to rattle the off-stump of Botha (44 off 39) before Taylor (13 not out) and Menaria scored the five runs wanted to post Rajasthan's 11th victory in 14 home IPL matches.

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