However, leg-spinner Rahul Chahar tempted the highest 4 KKR batsmen — Rana, Gill, Rahul Tripathi and skipper Eoin Morgan — into committing errors as they threw their wickets away in the method. Chahar’s four-wicket haul (4/27) left KKR at 122/4 after 15 overs.
The sport was nonetheless in KKR’s grasp as they wanted 31 off 30 balls. However, Shakib Al Hasan too wasted his wicket, getting caught in the deep off the bowling of Krunal Pandya.
Some tight bowling by MI bowlers then ensured that neither Russell nor Dinesh Karthik might free their arms. KKR wanted 15 off the final over which proved to be an excessive amount of towards Kiwi pacer Trent Boult, who took two wickets in his last over.
Earlier, Mumbai too squandered begin they acquired by Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma regardless of the lack of an early wicket and a much less productive power-play stage.
Yadav (56 off 36 balls) determined to tackle the KKR assault and started enjoying his photographs after the spinners, who bowled 5 of the six power-play overs, had curtailed MI.
Yadav, who hit three fours in Harbhajan Singh’s second over, smashed two sixes and 7 fours as he regarded to take MI to a powerful whole.
However, his dismissal off the bowling of Shakib Al Hasan in the eleventh over when MI had been cruising at 86/1 triggered a collapse. MI quickly misplaced Ishan Kishan who was dismissed by Pat Cummins in the twelfth over, and some overs later, the defending champions noticed the again of skipper Rohit Sharma who struggled to get going towards the spinners.
Rohit, who shared a 76-run second-wicket partnership with Yadav, made 43 off 32 balls.
The famed MI center and lower-order batting, which options loads of hard-hitters, did not get going. Soon after Rohit’s dismissal, MI misplaced the wickets of Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard in the house of six balls. South African Marco Jansen’s dismissal then left MI reeling at 126/7 after 18 overs.
Medium-pacer Russell hadn’t bowled until the seventeenth over. But in his first over, the 18th of the innings, he removed Kieron Pollard (5) and Marco Jansen (0) and in the final over of the match, he despatched again Krunal Pandya (15), Jasprit Bumrah (0) and Rahul Chahar (8) to return with dream figures of 5/15.
Brief scores: Mumbai Indians 152 all out in 20 overs (S Yadav 56, R Sharma 43, A Russell 5/15, P Cummins 2/24) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 142/7 in 20 overs (N Rana 57, S Gill 33, R Chahar 4/27, T Boult 2/27) by 10 runs
(With Agency Inputs)
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