KKR vs MI Match Highlights And Report-IPL: Shreyas Iyer’s Kolkata Knight Riders became the first team to qualify for the playoffs in IPL 2024 with their 18-run victory over Mumbai Indians in a rain-affected game at the Eden Gardens on Saturday evening. Given that KKR have a healthy net run rate of +1.428, they are all but guaranteed a top-two spot.
On a sticky pitch, Varun Chakaravarthy returned with figures of 2/17 in 4 overs and Sunil Narine with 1/21 in 3 overs, which helped KKR defend their total of 157.
KKR vs MI Match Highlights And Report-IPL
Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and elected to bowl first. Because of the rain, 105 minutes were lost, and the match was curtailed to 16 overs per side. Mumbai started off superbly with the ball as Nuwan Thusara had Phil Salt caught at fine leg and Jasprit Bumrah yorked Sunil Narine.
While Venkatesh Iyer hit Bumrah for a six and two fours, Anshul Kamboj bowled Iyer for a single-digit score.
Rana and Venkatesh took Hardik Pandya for 16 runs in his first over before the latter was dismissed by Piyush Chawla through a googly. Venkatesh scored 42 (21). Russell smoked two fours and two sixes in his knock of 24 (14). Contributions from Rana (33 off 23) and Rinku Singh (20 off 12) were vital before Ramandeep Singh walloped a six and a four to take KKR to 157 in 16 overs.
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MI got off to a blazing start in the run chase, with Ishan Kishan clobbering a flurry of boundaries in the first five overs. Kishan raced to 37 (17), but Rohit Sharma struggled for timing on the sticky surface.
MI had a dominating first five overs, reaching 59/0, but after this, KKR spinners Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine did what they do best: apply the choke in the middle overs. Narine got Kishan for 40 (22), and Chakravarthy ended Rohit’s struggle for 19 (24).
Even Suryakumar Yadav struggled on this surface against KKR’s bowlers. He was out for 11 (14) to Andre Russell in the 11th over. In the next over, Chakaravarthy bagged the MI captain, Hardik Pandya, for 2 runs. Russell returned to nip out Tim David for a duck.
Tilak Varma scored 32 (17), and Naman Dhir thumped 17 (6). But they could only drag the game till the last over, in which MI needed 22 runs, but Harshit Rana took out both Varma and Dhir to seal a playoff spot for KKR.
Score summary: Kolkata Knight Riders 157/7 in 16 overs (Venkatesh Iyer 42, Piyush Chawla 2/28); Mumbai Indians 139/8 in 16 overs (Ishan Kishan 40, Varun Chakaravarthy 2/17). KKR defeated MI by 18 runs.
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