Mumbai Indians’ Kieron Pollard is on the brink of hitting his two hundredth IPL six. Well, he’s simply two maximums away and it appears he’ll get there tonight solely once they take on Royal Challengers Bangalore within the season opener.Besides him there are a plethora of IPL stars who’ve accomplished a double century. These are: Chris Gayle (349), AB de Villiers (235), MS Dhoni (216), Rohit Sharma (213), and Virat Kohli (201).
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Even although Mumbai Indians is essentially the most profitable IPL crew ever, but they haven’t been capable of break a pattern of losses since 2013. The aspect has managed to lose all its opening matches within the final eight editions. Cricketnext takes a take a look at all these matches:
RCB vs MI – April 4, 2013
This was a last-over thriller, the place Mumbai had been pipped by a slender margin of 2 runs. RCB scored 156 of their allotted 20 overs, with Chris Gayle top-scoring with unbeaten 92. Mumbai wanted 10 runs from the final six balls. Vinay Kumar, who bowled the final over, acquired the important thing wickets of Ambati Rayudu and Dinesh Karthik. MI went on to win this season.
KKR vs MI- April 16, 2014
This was a relatively lop-sided match between the 2 giants. KKR went on to attain 163, with Jacques Kallis and Manish Pandey doing the harm with the bat. But it was the bowlers who emerged because the eventual stars on the day as Mumbai was left 41 runs quick of the goal. Later on, the aspect went on to lose to CSK within the eliminator.
KKR vs MI – April 8, 2015
This was as soon as once more a season that belonged to Mumbai Indians, as they lifted their second trophy. But the begin to the match wasn’t that nice. The aspect ended up setting a goal of 168. KKR, on the opposite hand — courtesy a fifty by Gautam Gambhir achieved the goal with ease — and 7 wickets & 9 balls to spare.
RPS vs MI – April 9, 2016
Once once more, Mumbai had a horrific begin to the match. Against the brand new aspect RPS, they misplaced convincingly by 9 wickets. Batting first, it seemed like Mumbai wouldn’t even handle to cross the 100-run mark, however finally did resulting from Harbhajan Singh’s 30-ball 45. But RPS had no drawback in chasing down the goal, and did so in fashion with greater than 5 overs to go.
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