MI vs KKR Match Report: In the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Kolkata Knight Riders team achieved its 7th win this season by winning the match played against Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium by 24 runs. Batting first in this match, KKR team was limited to 169 runs in 19.5 overs, in which Venkatesh Iyer scored 70 runs while Manish Pandey scored 42 runs. While chasing the target, Mumbai Indians team was limited to the score of 145. In bowling for KKR, Mitchell Starc took 4 wickets while Andre Russell, Varun Chakraborty and Sunil Narine took 2-2 wickets. KKR team has succeeded in defeating Mumbai Indians at their home after 12 years.
KKR had lost 5 wickets at the score of 57.
Mumbai Indians team captain Hardik Pandya had decided to bowl first after winning the toss in this match. After this, the KKR team had a very bad start, in which they lost their first wicket in the form of Phil Salt at the score of 7, whereas till the first ball of the sixth over, KKR had managed to score 10 wickets in the form of Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer, Sunil Narine and Rinku Singh. Had also lost wickets, due to which it was looking very difficult for them to make a big score in this match.
Venkatesh took over the innings and got the support of Manish Pandey.
The KKR team, which had lost 5 wickets at the score of 57, was handled by the pair of Venkatesh Iyer and Manish Pandey, in which both of them batted with caution and first took the team’s score beyond 100 runs. There was a partnership of 83 runs in 62 balls for the sixth wicket between Venkatesh and Manish. Manish Pandey returned to the pavilion after playing an innings of 42 runs in this match. Whereas Iyer played an important role in taking KKR’s score to 169 runs in 19.5 overs by playing an inning of 70 runs with the help of 6 fours and 3 sixes in 52 balls. Nuwan Thushara and Jasprit Bumrah took 3-3 wickets for Mumbai in this match.
Mitchell Starc took 4 wickets while Russell and Narine also showed wonders with the ball.
The Mumbai Indians team, which came to chase the target of 170 runs, did not get a good start in this match, in which Ishan Kishan became the victim of Mitchell Starc after scoring only 13 runs. While Mumbai Indians team managed to reach the score of 43 in the first 6 overs, they also lost the wickets of Rohit Sharma and Naman Dheer. From here, Suryakumar Yadav definitely tried to handle the team’s innings from one end but from the other end, Tilak Verma, Nehal Wadhera and Hardik Pandya could not make any significant contribution with the bat.
Surya definitely got the support of Tim David but due to the increasing pressure of run rate, he also returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 56 runs in this match. In this match, Mitchell Starc took 4 wickets while giving 33 runs in 3.5 overs of bowling, while Narine, Varun Chakraborty and Russell also managed to take 2 wickets each. Mumbai Indians team collapsed in this match after scoring 145 runs in 18.5 overs and had to face defeat by 24 runs. This is the 8th defeat of Mumbai Indians team in 11 matches this season.
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