Rajasthan Royals will hope to cement their top spot when they face off against a resurgent Mumbai Indians in the 38th game of the 2024 Indian Premier League. Get our latest expert RR vs MI match betting tips, predictions and picks below. You can start betting on the IPL 2024 by opening your account with 1xbet here.
Rajasthan v Mumbai Match Information
- Venue: Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Jaipur
- Date: Monday, April 22
- Time: 7.30 pm local (2 pm GMT, 10 am EDT)
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What Have The Two Teams Done So Far?
Rajasthan Royals have run away with the victories in the first half of the group stages of the tournament and are at the top of the IPL 2024 points table with 12 points from seven matches.
Five-time winners Mumbai Indians had made a slow start to the competition but have shown what they are capable of when they notched up their third win recently. They are seventh right now but a win can take them to sixth, level on points with three other teams.
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With Rajasthan Royals showing what momentum can do for them, they have become a team to beat in the tournament so far. Their only defeat has come to Gujarat Titans and even that was a narrow one which leaves us with the next obvious question – have they peaked too early?
The good news for Rajasthan is their batters have shared the responsibility evenly.
In the early stages, it was Sanju Samson who took on the scoring, Riyan Parag chipped in through to the second phase and more recently, Jos Buttler has smashed two centuries.
With Yaishasvi Jaiwal and Shimron Hetmyer having still not scored too many, their batting seems to be in capable hands.
At times, their bowling has shown it can be taken down but with Yuzvendra Chahal second on the top bowlers’ list and with Trent Boult chipping away early in the innings, it’s not like the bowling doesn’t have penetration.
Where the opposition can take advantage is if the backup bowling goes awry.
Mumbai Indians have the batting to do that too, just need the tactics-making a tad stronger.
Batting Hardik Pandya over Tim David and Romario Shepherd with 22 balls to go in the innings – as was the case in the Punjab innings could have been the difference of 15-20 runs.
Instead, there is a definite need to bat one of those two earlier in the innings so that the aggressive batting can continue throughout and there isn’t any lull in the innings.
With Jasprit Bumrah conceding less than six an over and Gerald Coetzee joining him in the wicket-taking spree, they have an attack to stall the Royals batting riches.
RR vs MI Head to Head Stats
- Overall RR vs MI Head-to-head: It’s 15-13 in favour of the Mumbai Indians at this stage but at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium, Rajasthan have won five of their seven matches.
- They faced off earlier this season at the Wankhede Stadium and saw Mumbai Indians get restricted to a mere 125/9 which was chased down by the Royals easily.
- Over the last 10 matches, it’s been 5-5 between these two sides.
Possible Playing XIs/XIIs
Rajasthan Royals
Buttler, Jaiswal, Samson, Parag, Jurel, Hetmyer, Powell, Ashwin, Chahal, Boult, Avesh, Kuldeep.
Mumbai Indians
Rohit, Ishan, Suryakumar, Varma, Hardik, Romario, David, Bumrah, Madhwal, Gopal, Coetzee, Thushara.
RR vs MI Predictions with Latest Odds*
- Prediction 1: MI to win: 4/5 (sign up with 1xbet)
- Prediction 2: Both teams to score more than 170 runs: 2/5
RR vs MI Toss Prediction
MI to win the toss: 10/11
RR vs MI Score Prediction
First Innings – Over 181.5 runs: 5/6
*odds correct at the time of writing.
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