IPL 2022: Dew came in, it was hard to bowl, says RR skipper Sanju Samson

After the defeat against Mumbai Indians by five wickets on Saturday Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson said that dew came in the second innings of the match made the bowling difficultMumbai Indians registered their first victory in this years IPL with Suryakumar Yadavs halfcentury helping the team end an eightmatch drought Mumbai Indians beat Rajasthan Royals by five wickets at the Dr DY Patil Stadium here on SaturdayCaptain Sanju Samson who came to bat at No 3 was dismissed for playing aggressively After this Darryl Mitchell 17 and Jos Buttler 67 took over the innings Ravichandran Ashwin scored 21 runs in 9 balls in the end Rajasthan achieved the figure of 158 runsThe RR skipper also said that they could have scored more runs I think we could have scored a few more runs The dew came in and it was hard to bowl It was getting wet The ball was getting wet so thats why they changed the ball said Sanju Samson in a postmatch presentationHe further added Different venues are playing in different ways Here batting first was a bit tougher the ball was a bit twopaced I think batting second was much better It depends on the wicket you are playing onTalking about the match Chasing a tricky 159run target Mumbai Indians did not get the best of starts losing their skipper Rohit Sharma cheaply as fivetime champions lost their first wicket for 23 Ravichandran Ashwin dismissed Rohit at 2 and the MI captains poor run with the bat continued in the tournamentWicketkeeper batter Ishan Kishan batted aggressively hitting boundaries and sixes to keep Mumbais scoreboard moving But leftarm pacer Trent Boult dismissed him for 26 off 18 balls after he had hit four boundaries and one six as MI lost their second wicket for 41Mumbai Indians needed a partnership and Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma did exactly that to take the teams total beyond the 50run mark in 63 overs Suryakumar Yadav batted aggressively and along with Tilak Varma notched up a fiftyrun partnership in just 33 balls while taking the teams total beyond the triplefigure mark in 123 oversSuryakumar also scored his halfcentury in just 36 balls Just when the MI team looked like motoring along legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal jolted them dismissing Suryakumar for 51 off 39 ballsIn the next over pacer Prasidh Krishna also struck dismissing Tilak Varma for 35 to reduce Mumbai to 1224 Mumbai Indians once again needed a partnership and Kieron Pollard played a patient knock and allowed Tim David to bat aggressively and Mumbais score reached beyond the 150run markWith four runs needed in the last over Mumbai Indians lost the wicket of Pollard against the run of play to Kuldeep Sen but in the next ball Daniel Sams hit a six to seal a fivewicket win for Mumbai IndiansThis is the third defeat of Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2022 after which the teams place in the points table has not been damaged But there has been a decline in the net run rate Apart from this after the defeat from Mumbai now this team will have to work harder to make it to the top2This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever