kolkata knight riders Won at 157/7 (Venkatesh 42, Rana 33, Chawla 2-28, Bumrah 2-39) mumbai indian 139/8 (Kishan 40, Tilak 32, Chakravarthy 2-17, Russell 2-34, Harshit 2-34) 18 runs difference
On a night that started with the ball bouncing like a boomerang after heavy rain in Kolkata, Kolkata Knight Riders' spin twins Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine chase down the Mumbai Indians. He tried to hold the team back and qualify for the playoffs. -Definitely within the top 2.
After MI were set for 158 in 16 overs, Chakravarthy and Narine started the stranglehold and after a two-wicket powerplay that put pressure on the visitors, MI scored just 22 runs in 5 overs. did.
Suryakumar Yadav and Tim David had no choice but to go quick, succumbing to Andre Russell's variations, and MI stumbled to 92 for 5, unable to come back from there unless Tilak Verma made a second-half cameo. . He reduced the required equation to 22 from six balls, but a wicket early in the final over ultimately handed MI their ninth loss in 13 matches.
The match was reduced to 16 overs as the start of the match was delayed by 1 hour and 45 minutes due to rain. Although KKR dropped an early lead, Venkatesh Iyer and the lower order batting powered them up to 157, and what may have seemed short in the early innings proved to be enough.