14th April, Ahmedabad (CRICKETNMORE) - Rajasthan Royals beat Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets in an IPL 2015 match at Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, here.
Mumbai Indians scored 164/5, riding on a 104 run fourth wicket partnership between Kieron Pollard (70) and Corey Anderson (50).
In reply, the Rajasthan Royals easily got to 165/3 with five balls to spare at the Sardar Patel stadium. Steven Smith was awarded man of the match for his unbeaten 73.
Quotes
Steve Smith - "It's my job isn't it? To score runs and it was nice to contribute to the team's win. I guess I am doing it pretty consistently now, moving across the crease and so there's no need to change I guess. We were just trying to keep it around 10 runs an over or around that. We have lot of hitters at the end and so the plan worked. Team has won three in three and hope this start continues."
Man of the Match - Steve Smith
Rohit Sharma – “I think we didn’t start really well with the bat. Corey and Polly did well to get us back in the match but we need to bowl and field well too. That hasn’t happened which is what cost us. It was a decent score that we had, not a big one but something to bowl at. Rajasthan batted really well. We got some work to do and I kept talking about it. Batting needs to be more responsible and we need to show discipline with the ball. Finch doesn’t look good right now, he will take a scan tomorrow and we’ll take it from then.”