Pat Cummins‘ heroics and Venkatesh Iyer’s grit took KKR past the winning mark as KKR won by 5 wickets with 24 balls to spare.
MI vs KKR Match Result, IPL 2022: Who won Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders Match?
Match Overview
Ist Inning
KKR had won the toss elected to bowl. Mumbai couldn’t open the innings too well as Umesh Yadav drew the first blood. He got rid of a dangerous hitman aka Rohit Sharma in the third over. Then, Dewald Brevis stabilised MI’s inning hitting 29 in 19 balls. We saw the vintage Surya Kumar Yadav back in action as he hit all over the park. Yadav made 52 runs in just 36 deliveries, hitting 5 fours and 2 sixes. Moreover, Tilak Verma too played a crucial inning of 38. Then came the Big man, Kieron Pollard whose cameo in the last over gave Mumbai 22 runs in just 5 deliveries. Mumbai made 162/4 in their 20 overs.
IInd Inning
With 163 to chase, KKR openers struggled in the initial overs. With the pressure building, Rahane was dismissed by Tymal Mills in the fifth over. Sixth over and the KKR skipper goes for 10. While wickets kept falling on the other end, Venkatesh Iyer kept the scoreboard ticking for KKR. Murugan Ashwin gave a double blow dismissing Sam Billings and Nitish Rana in his successive overs. Mills struck again as he dismissed the dangerous Andre Russell over a top edge. But, the best was yet to come for KKR. Then Pat Cummins made his way to the crease, Cummins hammered 56 runs in just 15 balls making the joint fastest fifty in the history of IPL and took KKR past the winning mark.
Who won the Player(Man) of the Match today?
Pat Cummins won the Man of Match award for his match winning knock of 56 runs in just 15 balls and his bowling spell of 2/49.
Playing Squad
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Sam Billings(w), Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Umesh Yadav, Rasikh Salam, Varun Chakaravarthy
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma(c), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Kieron Pollard, Daniel Sams, Dewald Brevis, Murugan Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Tymal Mills, Basil Thampi
