- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR15.2 chopped on! Once again Cummins does the job he's asked to! Slower ball, an offcutter at length wide outside off. Rohit static with the feet and looks to swish at that away from the body. Can't get it away 115/41.6 long-on takes it running in! Wristspin release from around the wicket. Lobbed up at his toes and he looks to launch that between deep midwicket and long-on. Looks it's held its line and messed with his swing. Ends up chipping it high and Tripathi does well running in 10/110.3 high in the sky but Gill is comfortable under that coming in from long-on. Oh this is a lovely delivery. Shakib is in control tonight. Tosses it up, just short of a good length. Offers no pace and gets that to dip on SKY who has stepped out and isn't to the pitch of it. Looks like he wanted to go over extra cover, one of his stock shots against spin, but he got nothing from the bowler. Only managed to lift that high up and his rollicking innings comes to an end 86/211.1 right on cue! Tucks him up at the ribs, Kishan's response usually is to get inside the line, drop his shoulders into the off side and hook aerially. That's what he does this time but he's hit it straight to fine leg 88/316.2 taken at mid-off. Hardik's struggle ends. Prasidh slows it down this time. Full offcutter at off stump as Hardik gets deep in the crease with the front leg away - his position for the big slog. Forced to go straight, forced to go through it too soon. Russell takes him 123/517.2 caught behind! Full and wide outside off, Pollard shuffles and looks to drill this through the covers. Thick outside edge. DK is wide in his stance for Russell's angle and has an easy one 125/619.3 chipped straight to short fine. Russell has three. Slower short ball at leg stump. Krunal looks to get inside the line and get this pull over that fiedler. But the change in pace doesn't allow a clean swing and it is an easy take 150/817.3 picks out sweeper cover. Length ball across off stump, gets on the front foot and opens the face on his lofted drive. Can't go through with it and it ends up a friendly slice for the bowler 126/719.6 he has a five-for! In a two-over spell! Russell applying the perfect finishing touch to a solid bowling performance. This is a length ball at middle stump, he shuffles and looks for the slog over midwicket. Can only get it as far as long-on. Russell spreads his arms and shrieks in celebration 152/1019.4 taken at deep midwicket! Four for Andre. Short and across middle stump, wants to pull that over square. Ends up slicing it and Shakib runs in and takes that with ease 150/9Extras7 (lb 4, w 3)TOTAL152 all out (20 Overs, RR: 7.6)Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Quinton de Kock, 1.6 ov), 2-86 (Suryakumar Yadav, 10.3 ov), 3-88 (Ishan Kishan, 11.1 ov), 4-115 (Rohit Sharma, 15.2 ov), 5-123 (Hardik Pandya, 16.2 ov), 6-125 (Kieron Pollard, 17.2 ov), 7-126 (Marco Jansen, 17.3 ov), 8-150 (Krunal Pandya, 19.3 ov), 9-150 (Jasprit Bumrah, 19.4 ov), 10-152 (Rahul Chahar, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Harbhajan Singh 2 0 17 0 8.50 6 3 0 1 0 CV Varun 4 0 27 1 6.75 9 3 0 1 0 Shakib Al Hasan 4 0 23 1 5.75 4 1 0 0 0 PJ Cummins 4 0 24 2 6.00 12 2 1 0 0 M Prasidh Krishna 4 0 42 1 10.50 8 5 2 0 0 AD Russell 2 0 15 5 7.50 6 2 0 1 0
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR14.6 stumped off Chahar's last ball! Sublime spell from Chahar. Saw Rana coming and pushed a slide through, across him. Rana was stranded. That was short of a length and past the outside edge 122/48.5 holes out to long-off. A subtle change from Chahar - a bit quicker, a bit fuller, a bit closer to the body. Gill clears the front leg and wants to pump this straight, but it's come off the low part of his bat. Chahar is uproarious 72/110.3 spins a long way and draws the edge! Short of a length legbreak from just outside leg. He closes the face to try and stab that through midwicket but that rips quickly and he's caught off the outside edge 84/212.5 holes out to deep midwicket! Superb, superb bowling again from Chahar. Hangs it up at a length, wide outside off and dipping quickly at him. He steps out and is made to reach out for this slog. Not in position to execute it and he has his man 104/315.2 lofted straight to deep square! KKR offering some real gifts to Mumbai here. This is full on middle stump, looks for the big slog sweep but is nowhere close to executing that. Sends it high and is taken well inside the boundary. Krunal delivered that from behind the crease, as he does often as a variation 122/519.3 gets him off the leading edge! Superb change-up from Boult. Nails the yorker at leg stump. Russell is surprised, he's out of sorts, he's going back. Looks to jab that through square leg, Boult takes an easy one in the follow through. That's a dot ball and a new man at the crease now 140/619.4 rips off stump out and yells in delight! What an over! What a ball. Into the blockhole, angled away from middle and hitting off comprehenseively. Cummins was deep in the crease trying to hoick that over square leg. It is another dot ball and Karthik still at the non-striker's end 140/7Extras12 (b 4, lb 5, nb 1, w 2)TOTAL142/7 (20 Overs, RR: 7.1)Fall of wickets: 1-72 (Shubman Gill, 8.5 ov), 2-84 (Rahul Tripathi, 10.3 ov), 3-104 (Eoin Morgan, 12.5 ov), 4-122 (Nitish Rana, 14.6 ov), 5-122 (Shakib Al Hasan, 15.2 ov), 6-140 (Andre Russell, 19.3 ov), 7-140 (Pat Cummins, 19.4 ov)
Match Details
Toss
Kolkata Knight Riders , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Match days
13 April 2021 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Mumbai Indians 2, Kolkata Knight Riders 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 42 runs, 1 wicket)
- Mumbai Indians: 50 runs in 7.3 overs (45 balls), Extras 2
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 35 balls (RG Sharma 12, SA Yadav 39, Ex 2)
- Strategic Timeout: Mumbai Indians - 64/1 in 8.0 overs (RG Sharma 20, SA Yadav 40)
- SA Yadav: 50 off 33 balls (6 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Mumbai Indians: 100 runs in 13.5 overs (83 balls), Extras 2
- Strategic Timeout: Mumbai Indians - 106/3 in 14.0 overs (RG Sharma 36, HH Pandya 9)
- Mumbai Indians: 150 runs in 19.2 overs (116 balls), Extras 7
- Innings Break: Mumbai Indians - 152/10 in 20.0 overs (TA Boult 0)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 45 runs, 0 wicket)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 6.6 overs (42 balls), Extras 2
- Strategic Timeout: Kolkata Knight Riders - 50/0 in 7.0 overs (N Rana 26, Shubman Gill 22)
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 42 balls (N Rana 26, Shubman Gill 22, Ex 2)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 100 runs in 12.1 overs (73 balls), Extras 7
- N Rana: 50 off 40 balls (6 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Strategic Timeout: Kolkata Knight Riders - 122/5 in 15.2 overs (KD Karthik 0)
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