{"id":47599,"date":"2026-04-07T19:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=47599"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:04:46","slug":"ipl-2026-rr-vs-mi-live-rain-stops-in-guwahati-covers-come-off-as-hopes-of-play-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-rr-vs-mi-live-rain-stops-in-guwahati-covers-come-off-as-hopes-of-play-return\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 RR vs MI Live: Rain stops in Guwahati, covers come off as hopes of play return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rain stops, covers come off in Guwahati<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was a positive update from Guwahati as rain eased around 7:17 PM IST, allowing ground staff to begin removing the covers ahead of the IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians.<\/p>\n<p>The outfield is now being attended to, with groundsmen starting the clean-up process. Earlier delays had been caused by steady rain and lightning, but conditions have improved enough for preparations to resume. The focus is now on drying the surface to assess match readiness.<\/p>\n<p>Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag was seen out in the middle along with team staff, inspecting conditions as work continued. Reserve umpire Kannur Swaroopanand is also monitoring the situation closely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspection underway, toss timing awaited<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officials are expected to carry out further inspections before confirming the revised schedule. With the rain stopping, there is renewed hope of play, although the extent of delay will determine whether a full or shortened match is possible.<\/p>\n<p>The toss timing is yet to be announced and will be updated once conditions are deemed suitable. For now, attention remains on how quickly the ground can be made ready after the earlier interruptions.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div><b>Rajasthan Royals<\/b>\u00a0Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Ravi Bishnoi, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Brijesh Sharma, Ravi Singh, Shubham Dubey, Adam Milne, Dasun Shanaka, Kuldeep Sen, Sushant Mishra, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Kwena Maphaka, Vignesh Puthur, Aman Rao Perala<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-2 items-center\">\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Mumbai Indians<\/b>\u00a0Squad: Ryan Rickelton(w), Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Sherfane Rutherford, Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Mayank Markande, Trent Boult, Robin Minz, Raj Bawa, Ashwani Kumar, Hardik Pandya, Quinton de Kock, Will Jacks, Mayank Rawat, Raghu Sharma, Atharva Ankolekar, AM Ghazanfar, Danish Malewar, Mohammed Salahuddin Izhar<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain stops, covers come off in Guwahati There was a positive update from Guwahati as rain eased around 7:17 PM\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":47583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47600,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47599\/revisions\/47600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}