Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders Highlights: KKR steamroll MI to enter top four | Cricket News – Times of India

Abu Dhabi: Rookie Venkatesh Iyer left many in awe with his talent Kolkata Knight Riders Produced a clinical performance for the second consecutive game since the resumption of the IPL to tame the mighty player Mumbai Indians by seven wickets and enter the top-four on the points table here on Thursday.
Iyer (53 off 30), playing his second IPL game, displayed his wide range of strokes Rahul Tripathi (74 not out on 42) 29 balls to spare to enable KKR to chase down MI’s modest total of 155 runs.
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Quinton de Kock played an entertaining 55 for MI before the KKR bowlers took five for 75 in the last 10 overs.
Shubman Gill and Iyer gave KKR another great start by bowling the first two overs Trent Boult And Adam Milne is going on 15-15 runs.

Gill smacked Boult for a scintillating six while Iyer pulled the New Zealand pacer to set the tone for the rest of the innings.
whereas Jasprit Bumrah Gill’s stumps were found in the third over, Iyer played a memorable innings which included four fours and three sixes.
Iyer and Tripathi put on an 88-run stand for the second wicket, which completely closed the door for MI, who suffered their second loss since the resumption of the IPL.

Earlier, Mi Skipper Rohit Sharma (33 off 30) Departs from the innings in fine style, Nitish takes Rana’s delivery to the mid-off boundary. The captain, who performed brilliantly in Tests in England, did not play the first match against CSK.
Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya once again did not start, raising questions on his fitness.
Rohit took the attack to the mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty With two consecutive fours at the start of two balls of the fourth over.

De Kock was not to be left behind as he matched his skipper stroke for stroke, pulling Lockie Ferguson over the fence for the first maximum of the match.
Introduced to the attack in the sixth over, Prasidh Krishna was challenged by de Kock, hitting the medium pacer twice over the fence and taking 16 runs from his first over as MI scored 56 for no loss.
De Kock looked unstoppable as we greet Andre Russell with successive fours. Morgan trump card to dismiss Chakraborty in the 11th over (4-0-22-0) and MI did not lose a single wicket against him.
Sunil Narine Was clean conceding only 20 runs in four overs.
With de Kock’s hammer and tongs, Rohit played the second fiddle and scored 33 off 30 balls before Narine made his man for the ninth time in T20Is, dismissing Shubman Gill over the boundary.
KKR pulled things back between 10-15 overs, conceding only 26 runs and taking two wickets.
Pollard, as he often does, came up with much-needed big hits in the final five overs, including a flat batting at mid-wicket off Krishna’s 18-run over.
Ferguson bowled a brilliant last over for KKR after getting out the dangerous pair of Pollard and Krunal Pandya (12) for just six runs.
Mumbai scored 49 runs in the last five overs.