Kolkata Knight Riders recorded a powerful 18-run win over Mumbai Indians within the sixtieth match of the IPL 2024 at Eden Gardens on Sunday, May 12, 2024. With a win, Shreyas Iyer’s Kolkata grew to become the primary group to secure a playoff qualification this season.
Early rain delayed the kick-off by virtually two hours and play was diminished to a 16-over match. Venkatesh Iyer continued his spectacular kind towards Mumbai by scoring 42 runs off simply 21 balls to assist Kolkata submit a 157 whole after which Varun Chakravarthy and Andre Russell shone with a ball to limit Mumbai to 139.Â
After being compelled to bat first, Kolkata struggled for a constructive begin with in-form openers Sunil Narine and Phil Salt strolling again to the pavilion within the first over overs. Skipper Shreyas Iyer was additionally dismissed on seven runs by Anshul Kamboj within the fifth over.
Venkatesh and the returning batter Nitish Rana stored the scoreboard transferring with aggressive batting within the center overs with the latter scoring essential 33 runs. Andre Russell smashed fast 24 runs however was not capable of end as soon as once more.
Kolkata managed to seek out essential runs via Ramandeep Singh who scored 17* off simply 8 balls and completed the innings with an enormous six off Jasprit Bumrah. Piyush Chawla and Bumrah picked two wickets every however Hardik and Nuwan Thusahra struggled with costly spells for Mumbai.
Chasing 158 in 16 overs, Mumbai loved a flying begin with Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma including 65 runs inside seven overs for the opening wicket. Rohit struggled for large photographs however Ishan gave Mumbai an early management in a tricky chase by smashing 40 runs off simply 22 balls.
In-form spinner Varun Chakravarthy gave Kolkata a breakthrough with Rohit’s huge wicket and Sunil Narine dismissed dangerous-looking Ishan Kishan within the following over to stun Mumbai. The travelling aspect then didn’t make a comeback and misplaced well timed wickets beneath the stress of accelerating the required run charge.
Naman Dhir smashed two sixes and a 4 off Russell within the penultimate over when Mumbai wanted 41 runs to win the sport however Harshit Rana simply defended 22 runs within the final over with couple of wickets to limit the five-time champions to a 139/8 whole in 16 overs.
Mumbai Indians Playing XI: Ishan Kishan (wk), Naman Dhir, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Nehal Wadhera, Hardik Pandya (c), Tim David, Anshul Kamboj, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara (substituted by Rohit Sharma).
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI: Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana (substituted by Vaibhav Arora), Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.
