The Mumbai Indians have to win their four remaining matches to have any chance to qualify for the IPL 2024 Playoffs.
MI vs KKR Live Updates, Match 51: The Mumbai Indians bowlers dominated the Knight Riders, wreaking havoc on the batters. KKR’s batting order collapsed like a pack of cards, with Nuwan Thushara leading the charge. Venkatesh Iyer was the lone warrior of the side, top-scoring for KKR with 70 runs with the bat. Manish Pandey, who came in as the impact player, stitched a crucial partnership with Iyer, ensuring that KKR got to a face-saving total. MI need 170 runs to win the game.
Iyer castled!
Bumrah sends Venkatesh Iyer’s middle stump crashing as KKR are bowled out.
KKR are 169 in 19.5 overs.
Another one
Mitchell Starc gets castled by a ripper from Bumrah, KKR are 8 wickets down.
KKR are 155/9 in 18 overs.
Bumrah strikes!
Ramandeep Singh departs after scoring just 2 runs as Bumrah strikes
KKR are 155/8 in 17.4 overs.
No Russell mania
A mix-up between Venkatesh Iyer and Andre Russell brings an end to the Caribbean’s innings as he is run out.
KKR are 153/7 in 16.5 overs.
Manish Pandey departs
MI end partnership between Venkatesh Iyer and Manish Pandey as the latter departs.
KKR are 140/6 in 16.2 overs.
Fifty for Venkatesh Iyer
Southpaw Venkatesh Iyer scores a fighting half-century off 36 deliveries.
KKR look to step on accelerator!
Venkatesh Iyer and Manish Pandey steady the innings for KKR after the side suffered a top-order collapse.
KKR are 128/5 in 15 overs
Iyer and Pandey fight hard
Manish Pandey comes on to bat for the very first time in this year’s IPL. And he is starting to string a partnership with Venkatesh Iyer. The score has moved to 91/5 in 11 overs.
Rinku Out
It has been a poor day with the bat so far for the KKR. Now Rinku Singh hands a simple catch to Piyush. KKR 60/5 in 7 overs.
Double blow
What is happening here? One day Salt doesn’t shine, and KKR batting is falling cheaply. First Thusara removes Shreyas, and then Hardik castles Narine.
Out
Raghuvanshi, after playing a couple of awesome shots, plays a loose one. He gives a simple catch to Surya, as the score moves to 22/2.
Thusara starts
Salt gets a four in the very first over. And once again, we can expect a high-scoring game from KKR. But in the same over he skies one is caught by Tilak, after a mix up. It is 7/1.
Pandya says..
We will bowl. It’s always about playing for pride, it looks quite tough for us but at the same time, we want to play good cricket, feels good to be back home. Looks like a good track, it’s a fresh wicket so thought that bowling first will be good. Only one change, Naman Dhir comes in place of Nabi.
Playing XIs
Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer (c), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy.
Mumbai Indians: Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Nehal Wadhera, Hardik Pandya (c), Naman Dhir, Tim David, Gerald Coetzee, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara.
Kolkata Knight Riders playing the same team
Shreyas Iyer has decided to field the same team. At the toss, he said: “It’s always about doing the small things well; obviously, the dew is a factor, but we have to keep that out of mind. The message is clear: each one of them knows their role and responsibility. We are going with the same team.”
Hardik Pandya after winning the toss
We will bowl. It’s always about playing for pride; it looks quite tough for us, but at the same time, we want to play good cricket. It looks like a good track; it’s a fresh wicket, so I thought that bowling first would be good. Only one change: Naman Dhir comes in place of Nabi.
Mumbai Indians win the toss and elect to bowl first
Welcome to the live coverage of the 51st match of the IPL 2024 season between the Mumbai Indians and the Kolkata Knight Riders.
MI vs KKR: Squads
Mumbai Indians: Ishan Kishan (wk), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma. Hardik Pandya (c), Nehal Wadhera, Tim David, Mohammad Nabi, Gerald Coetzee, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah. Nuwan Thushara, Naman Dhir, Shams Mulani, Dewald Brevis, Kumar Kartikeya, Luke Wood, Shreyas Gopal. Harvik Desai, Romario Shepherd, Arjun Tendulkar, Shivalik Sharma, Anshul Kamboj, Akash Madhwal, Kwena Maphaka.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh, Shreyas Iyer (c). Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana. Varun Chakaravarthy, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz. Dushmantha Chameera, Allah Ghazanfar, Sakib Hussain, Sherfane Rutherford, Chetan Sakariya, Nitish Rana, Srikar Bharat.
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