One of the most destructive batters in modern day cricket, Tim David struck three back-to-back sixes off the first three deliveries in the 20th over n front of Mumbai Indians' home fans to power the five-time IPL winners to a memorable six-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 match on Sunday (April 30). Mumbai Indians chased down the mammoth 212-run target in 19.3 overs to hand their captain Rohit Sharma a lovely birthday present. Mumbai vs Rajasthan IPL 2023 match on Sunday was also the 1000th match in World's richest T20 tournament's history. Also, this was Mumbai's fourth win in eight games played in IPL 2023 thus far, and now they moved to seventh position in the IPL 2023 points table.
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27-year-old David sealed an impossible-looking win for Mumbai. Not just fans at the jam-packed Wankhede stadium, but also his own teammates couldn’t control their excitement over his brutal innings. A video of an 'overjoyed' Sachin Tendulkar, reacting to David's huge 84-m six on the second ball of the final over is now going viral on the internet.
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Mumbai ending up as the winners was incredible as the fate of match looked almost sealed in the first innings after 21-year-old talented youngster Yashasvi Jaiswal scored his maiden ton (124 off just 62 balls), laced up with 16 fours and eight sixes, at a strike rate of 200 to single-handedly take the Royals to 212 for 7 after electing to bat.