7.55pm And that is that from Jaipur. The action shifts to Delhi now, where the Capitals have chosen to bowl against Kings XI Punjab. Catch all the action here. Goodbye!
Steven Smith is the Player of the match, and the Rajasthan Royals captain, so yay, only one interview to transcribe. "Haven't contributed as much as I'd like through this tournament, it was nice to get off to a good start and take the boys home," he says. "We can't worry about other results, it's about us and our processes. For us, it's a final, every game. We did well to pull it back to 160 and executed our skills well. It's never good when your drop catches, but those things happen, and you've got to move on, and we did that. Look at Jofra, the way he bowled and came back. [Riyan Parag] was very impressive. I've been watching him in the nets, and he's got superb skills with the ball, and with the bat he's got a cool head, and a lot of power. I wish I had that kind of power as a 17-year-old. He's just got to keep playing with freedom. Very bright future for the young guy."
Kanav: "MoM- Surya " -- Harsh, but his 34 off 33 definitely does look like the wrong kind of impactful innings.
Nani: "Mumbai have to use Ben cutting. But they are not using resources like Cutting and Pollard."
Harry Dawe: "To me, the strongest RR top order at the moment minus Buttler would be Tripathi, Livingstone, Samson with Smith as the safe batsman at 4, Livingstone and Tripathi given license to try and go at 10s and with Parag and Turner/Stokes to finish the innings"
Yash Narain: "One has to give credit to Smith for his captaincy today. Used the likes of Binny and Prayag in the middle overs to save three overs of Archer for the death. Mumbai have gotten away in the recent past with suryakumar's middle overs sloth-paced run making thanks to the final overs blitzkreig provided by Hardik and Pollard but Archer and Smith were less forgiving today "
7.39pm New captain, a heavily rejigged team, and Rajasthan Royals have found a way to win a match. It's only their third win of the season, but they've done the double over Mumbai. An interesting match on a slow pitch, and in the end Mumbai probably were a handful of runs short of a properly challenging total. Jofra Archer and Shreyas Gopal played a big part in keeping Mumbai down, and the new captain, Steven Smith, saw them through in one of those middling chases, with a vital injection of momentum from young Riyan Parag.