Kolkata Knight Riders secured a playoff berth with a convincing 18-run win over Mumbai Indians in a rain-truncated IPL fixture on the Eden Gardens on Saturday. This was the ninth win of the season for KKR, which tallied 18 factors from 12 matches to stay on high of the standings and safe a spot within the playoffs after a break of three seasons.
Kolkata Knight Riders posted a difficult 157 for seven after Mumbai Indians elected to area. With rains forcing the match to start out an hour and 45 minutes behind, the sport was lowered to 16 overs a facet. In reply, Mumbai Indians didn’t consolidate on a advantageous begin and ended its chase on 139 for eight.
The Mumbai Indians openers – Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma (coming in as an affect participant) – struck a pleasant partnership and scored 59 within the PowerPlay whereas tearing aside the KKR tempo assault. The KKR spin duo of Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy put within the break and removed the Mumbai Indians opening pair.Â
KKR vs MI – AS IT HAPPENED
Narine obtained the important break whereas getting Kishan 40 (22 balls, 5×4, 2×6) within the seventh over earlier than Rohit Sharma (19 in 24 balls), who was struggling along with his shot-making, departed subsequent to Varun. Mumbai Indians’ chase misplaced route hereafter as the remainder of its batting folded up providing little resistance. Tilak Varma put in his bit with a stroke-filled 32 (in 17 balls) however that was not sufficient to see Mumbai Indians overhauling the goal.
Earlier, Mumbai Indians obtained the best begin, sending the in any other case explosive KKR opening pair of Sunil Narine and Phil Salt again to the dugout within the first seven balls. Venkatesh Iyer stabilized the KKR innings with a quick-fire 42 (21 balls, 6×4, 2×6) and in a while Nitish Rana (33), Andre Russell (24) and Rinku Singh supplied a rear cost to take the KKR whole previous 150.