Hardik Pandya's return to the Wankhede Stadium as Mumbai Indians captain was far from a fairy tale, as the five-time champions lost their third game in a row, this time with 27 balls to spare. Rajasthan Royals - led by superb performances from Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal and Riyan Parag - gave them a thorough hammering to move to No. 1 on the points table with a hat-trick of victories. Boult left Mumbai panting not long after the beginning of the match when he excused Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir and Dewald Brevis for first-ball ducks in quite a while initial eight balls. His 3 for 22 was just paired by the 3 for 11 taken by Chahal, who controlled the center overs to guarantee Mumbai didn't organize a batting rebound. Pursuing 126 for triumph, Parag hauled Royals out of some early difficulty and shepherded the pursuit. He completed the game with six, six, and four to remain unbeaten on 54 to take the No. 1 spot on the orange cap list of competitors - attached on runs with Virat Kohli yet in front of strike rate. Boult sets up the destruction work Rohit had all the help from the group, who recited his name even as they booed Hardik, yet his experience with the bat endured just a single ball when Boult moved one to swing away from him and inspire him to edge it behind. Next ball, Boult swung it the alternate way, getting a full ball to nip into Dhir. With two wickets gone inside the game's initial six balls, Mumbai got influence sub Brevis in the second over itself, yet he too succumbed to the ball calculating across, edging it to Nandre Burger at short third. With three wickets in his initial eight conveyances of the game, Boult gave Royals a benefit that they never let go. Sparkling Chahal After Boult's singing opening spell, Burger got in on the activity. Playing as a substitution for the harmed Sandeep Sharma, Burger came around the wicket to take out Ishan Kishan with a length ball that calculated away and took his edge. With Mumbai Indians 20 for 4 of every three-and-a-half overs, Tilak Varma and Hardik hoped to construct a recuperation, practically prevailing with a 56-run fifth-wicket stand, yet Chahal excused the two players to snuff out any opportunity of a rebound. Subsequent to hitting six limits from the get-go in his innings, Hardik fell on 34 when he holed out at mid-on attempting to hit Chahal. Tilak was given the boot on 32 not long after when Chahal's googly was edged to R Ashwin at short third. Chahal completed his spell with the wicket of Gerald Coetzee late in the innings. Altogether, 16 of Chahal's 24 conveyances were specks, and his four-over spell finished with an economy of just 2.75. A late wicket for Avesh Khan and a second for Burger guaranteed Mumbai completed on 125 for 9, a score too falling short on a surface that is customarily batting-accommodating. Madhwal comes great on season debut No one but wickets could save Mumbai after that batting exertion, and they capitalized on their guaranteed winner early when Jasprit Bumrah shared the new ball, with Kwena Maphaka, interestingly this season. However, despite the fact that Bumrah bowled three of the six powerplay overs, the Royals players didn't offer a wicket to him. Yashasvi Jaiswal tumbled to Maphaka in the main over itself, while the other three wickets went to Akash Madhwal, playing his most memorable round of IPL 2024. Madhwal hit with the second chunk of his spell when he got Sanju Samson to slash on to his stumps, and added a subsequent when Jos Buttler pulled him to fine leg. He added a third later, in the thirteenth over, when Ashwin sent a main edge off a short conveyance to point. Madhwal was the champion bowler for Mumbai Indians with 3 for 20. Parag strolled in positioned No. 5 on the orange cap list and completed the day with the cap on his head. With no genuine scoreboard tension on this event, No. 4 Parag played sans risk cricket from the beginning, yet attacked Coetzee with four fours and two sixes. Everything got with consecutive limits going Coetzee in the eighth over, trailed by one more hurled four over the covers in the eleventh. He then smoked Bumrah through mid-off in the fourteenth over prior to storing Piyush Chawla over lengthy on in the fifteenth. Parag then, at that point, put the final details on the outcome by pounding Coetzee for 16 runs off the initial three chunks of the sixteenth over. The primary ball went for a clubbed six over the covers, and he arrived at his fifty next ball with a trudge over midwicket. The triumphant runs came over wicketkeeper Kishan's head and sent Royals and Mumbai Indians to far edges of the focuses table.