{"id":6386,"date":"2012-05-21T08:20:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T08:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2012-05-21T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T08:20:22","slug":"mumbai-indians-defeat-rajasthan-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6386","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai Indians defeat Rajasthan Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/mumbai_indians.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mumbai Indians defeat Rajasthan Royals\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Jaipur: <\/strong>Dwayne Smith and Sachin Tendulkar shared the highest  opening stand in the Indian Premier League (IPL) to propel Mumbai  Indians to a 10-wicket victory over Rajasthan Royals in the final league  match of the T20 tournament here Sunday.<br \/>\n<br \/>Smith smashed 87 off 58  balls while Tendulkar struck a fluent 58 off 51 as Mumbai overcame the  target with 12 balls to spare. Medium pacer Dhawal Kulkarni (3\/18)  starred with the ball before his side cantered to a morale-boosting win  ahead of its knock-out game against Chennai Super Kings in Bangalore  Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The 163-run partnership between the master blaster  and Smith saw 16 fours besides three big ones coming from the bat of the  West Indian. The memorable opening stand surpassed the effort of  Chennai Super Kings&#8217; Murali Vijay and Michael Hussey, who had mad\u00ace 159  against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2011 edition. <\/p>\n<p>While  Mumbai had already qualified for the play-offs as the third-placed team,  Royals were playing for pride after being eliminated from the  competition.<\/p>\n<p>Royals set-up a decent total to end their IPL-V  campaign on a high but Tendulkar and Smith came up with a special  performance to script Mumbai Indians&#8217; victory. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Royals blasted 56 off the last five overs to push the score beyond 150.<\/p>\n<p>The  in-form opening combination of Ajinkya Rahane (13) and Rahul Dravid (5)  fell cheaply, leaving the team at 32 for two in 5.2 overs. <\/p>\n<p>Star all-rounder Shane Watson (45) along with Stuart Binny (30) steadied the innings with a 53-run stand. <\/p>\n<p>Watson was once again at his belligerent best, hitting fours and a couple of sixes in his 36-ball innings.<\/p>\n<p>Binny  too was impressive during his cameo. The highlight of his innings was  hammering opposition skipper Harbhajan Singh for 22 runs in the 10th  over. <\/p>\n<p>Owais Shah chipped in with an unbeaten 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cricket\/mumbai_indians.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mumbai Indians defeat Rajasthan Royals\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Jaipur: <\/strong>Dwayne Smith and Sachin Tendulkar shared the highest  opening stand in the Indian Premier League (IPL) to propel Mumbai  Indians to a 10-wicket victory over Rajasthan Royals in the final league  match of the T20 tournament here Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ipl-5-2012"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mumbai Indians defeat Rajasthan Royals - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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