Despite the change of captain, Kolkata could not change the record against Mumbai.
In this year’s IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders lost to Mumbai Indians in two matches. The gap in the first match was 49 runs and today it is 8 wickets.
Rohit Sharma’s team easily reached the top of the points list in the current IPL with 12 points after defeating Kolkata.
Delhi Capitals also scored 12 points in 8 matches.
However, Mumbai is at the top as it is ahead in the run rate. Kolkata remained at No. 4 with 8 points in 8 matches. Left-arm opener Quinton de Kock is one of the heroes of Mumbai’s victory today. He remained unbeaten on 78 runs off 44 balls. He had 9 boundaries and three sixes in his innings. Mumbai’s opening pair scored 94 runs.
Kolkata won the toss and elected to bat first and in the 20 over they managed to score 148 runs in 5 wickets. At one time it even seemed that this run would not come. 5 wickets fell for 61 runs. From there, Pat Cummins and newly elected captain Eoin Morgan save the team’s reputation to some extent. Although the match couldn’t be taken in favor.
Kolkata started losing wickets from the beginning of the day. Rahul Tripathi (7) was out first. Then Nitish Rana (5) walks off the pitch coming down at No 3 followed by Shubman Gill (21) who still fought a little. Dinesh Karthik, who lost the captaincy, could not score any runs except hitting a boundary off 8 balls. Andre Russell made 12 runs. Then Morgan and Cummins started fighting. Cummins in particular batted brilliantly. His half-century helped the team build a respectable score. He remained unbeaten on 53 off 36 balls. Morgan remained unbeaten on 39 runs.
Rahul Chahar took a pair of wickets for Mumbai. Trent Bolt and Nathan Coulter-Nile Jaspreet Bumrah took one wicket each.
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