Watch: “Beast Mode On!” Kieron Pollard’s record breaking 22 of 5 balls helps MI get to 161 against KKR
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Today five-time champion Mumbai Indians face two-time champion Kolkata Knight Riders. Kolkata team has won two out of their three matches so far. In the last match, he defeated Punjab Kings. At the same time, Mumbai’s team has lost both its matches this season. In such a situation, the team would like to return. Kolkata captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and elected to bowl first.
All in all, the pair changed in the XI of the Knights. Rasik Salam Dar will play in place of Shivam Mavi. Pat Cummins replaces Tim Southee. On the other hand, Proteas Wonder Kid Dewald Brevis is coming down in Mumbai jersey. The international cricket world knows him as ‘Baby AB’. He has been taken in place of Tim David. Suryakumar Yadav also returned to the Mumbai XI on Wednesday after recovering from an injury.
Batting first after losing the toss, Mumbai got off to a bad start. The team got the first blow on the score of six. Captain Rohit Sharma was sent to the pavilion by Umesh Yadav. Rohit could score three runs. This was followed by a 30-ball 39-run partnership between Ishan Kishan and South African Under-19 star Devald Brevis, popularly known as ‘Baby AB‘. Brevis made some great shots. He hit six off the balls of Pat Cummins and Umesh Yadav. Brevis was dismissed for 29 runs off 19 balls with the help of two fours and two sixes.
Mumbai Indians scored 161 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of Suryakumar’s half-century innings. Suryakumar Yadav scored 52 runs in 36 balls with the help of 5 fours and two sixes. While Tilak Verma scored an unbeaten 38 runs in 27 balls with the help of 3 fours and two sixes.
Kieron Pollard played a stormy innings in the last over. In Cummins’s over, Kieron Pollard scored an unbeaten 22 runs in just 5 balls with the help of 3 sixes. Cummins took two wickets for KKR. While Umesh Yadav and Chakraborty took one wicket each.
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