Rajasthan Royals (RR) put one foot in the door in direction of the playoffs with their seventh win in the 2024 version of the IPL towards the Mumbai Indians in Jaipur. The Men in Pink rode on a few particular person performances from Sandeep Sharma, who registered his maiden T20 five-wicket haul and Yashasvi Jaiswal, who slammed his second IPL century, each towards the Mumbai Indians. Sharma’s 5/18 spell stored Mumbai Indians to a chaseable rating of 179 whereas Jaiswal’s ton ensured that the Royals cruised to the goal to increase their reign on the high.
With this, the Royals replicated their own feat of getting a participant rating a century and one other take a fifer in the identical IPL match. This was solely the third time it occurred and the second time for the Royals whereas the remaining one was for Gujarat Titans final yr when Shubman Gill smashed a century and Mohit Sharma took a five-wicket haul in Qualifier 2.
Century and Fifer for a similar crew in an IPL match
Jos Buttler (103), Yuzvendra Chahal (5/40) at CCI Mumbai 2022 for Rajasthan Royals vs KKR
Shubman Gill (129), Mohit Sharma (5/10) at Ahmedabad 2023 for Gujarat Titans vs MI
Yashasvi Jaiswal (104*), Sandeep Sharma (5/18) at Jaipur 2024 for Rajasthan Royals vs MI
Overall, that is the fourth instance of a century and a five-wicket haul in the identical match as the one different time it occurred, the gamers scoring a century and taking a five-wicket haul had been from totally different groups – Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Sunrisers Hyderabad) in the course of the GT vs SRH recreation final yr in Ahmedabad.
It was a pleasure for the Royals as they ended their dwelling run in Jaipur with 4 wins in 5 matches whereas the match is slowly slipping out for the Mumbai Indians, who suffered their fifth loss in the match.
