Yeshsavi Jaiswal put up a breathtaking display of power hitting as Rajasthan Royals IPL 2026 continues its dominant run, awesome Mumbai Indians By 27 runs in a rain-stopped 11 over match in Guwahati. The win marked RR’s third position on the bounce, taking them to the top of the points table with six points.Opening alongside teenage sensation Vibhu Suryavanshi, Jaiswal set the tone early with an explosive 80-run stand, decimating the MI attack with fearless stroke play. His unbeaten 77 off just 32 balls, with 10 fours and four sixes, took RR to a mammoth 150/3.
The left-hander’s innings was not only impressive but historic. He now joins the elite group of Royals batsmen with more than 100 sixes in the IPL, along with Sanju Samson (192). Jose Butler (135), and Shane Watson (109). Jaiswal’s tally of 100 sixes marks his rapid rise as one of the franchise’s most devastating batsmen.Highest 50+ score for RR in IPL25 – Jos Buttler (82 innings)25 – Sanju Samson (144 innings)19 – Yashvi Jaiswal (69 innings)19 – Ajinkya Rahane (93 innings)His consistency has been equally impressive. With 19 scores of fifties or more in just 69 innings, he is already tied with Ajinkya Rahane on the Royals’ all-time list, trailing only Samson and Buttler.Jaiswal has a remarkable record especially against Mumbai Indians. In nine innings, he has scored 373 runs at an average of 53.28 and an astonishing strike rate of 187.43, including two centuries and a fifty.Most runs in the first over of an IPL innings for RR26 vs KKR (Nitish Rana), Kolkata, 202322 v KKR (Brad Hodge), Durban, 200922 vs PBKS (Arshdeep Singh), Jaipur, 202522 v. RR (Deepak Chahar), Guwahati, 2026Jaiswal was involved in three of the above – all those runs coming off his bat. There was a first innings in which he scored 50 runs off just 13 balls, which is the fastest in IPL history.Tuesday’s innings also achieved another unique feat. Jaiswal has now featured in three of the highest-scoring first overs for Rajasthan Royals in IPL history, contributing all the runs with the bat on each occasion. One of them came during his record-breaking 13-ball fifty, the fastest in IPL history.RR’s charge began with a ferocious onslaught in the opening over, where Jaiswal tore into the bowling for 22 runs. The momentum only picked up as Suryavanshi took on the likes of Jasprit Bumrah and others, scoring a 14-ball 39 before departing.In response, Mumbai Indians succumbed to the pressure of the scoreboard. Important names such as early blows from the RR bowlers were seen. Rohit SharmaSurya Kumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya Falling cheaply, reduced them to 46/5 inside five overs. Despite a brief resistance from the lower middle order, MI never recovered and ended on 123/9, slumping to their second successive defeat.With both bat and ball firing, Rajasthan Royals look like a serious pace-builder, and at the heart of it stands Jaiswal, who is rewriting the record books with every outing.See also: DC vs GT Live Score
