Mumbai vs Kolkata Match Report
The second phase of the Indian T20 league is becoming more interesting, as the bottom-level teams are performing exceptionally. Yesterday Kolkata defeated team Mumbai with 7 wickets; all credit goes to the opening batsman and the team’s bowlers.
Let’s take a look at the match highlights and report.
Famous as the defending Champions team Mumbai has suffered a massive 7 wickets defeat against team Kolkata. After winning the toss, the captain of team Mumbai decided to bat first. However, they could not take advantage of the excellent start. The team got all out after scoring 155 runs with 6 wickets loss in 20 overs. In reply, Team Kolkata chased the target with a winning style, with 7 wickets in hand and the remaining 29 balls.
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Mumbai vs Kolkata Innings
Mumbai Innings
Captain of the team Mumbai Rohit Sharma and his opening pair Quinton de Kock have scored 78 runs in 9.2 overs, without any loss. Mumbai was looking for a strong position at that time, and everyone was presuming that Mumbai would reach 180 figures. However, Kolkata bowler Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy, along with Lockie Ferguson, restricted team Mumbai to 155 runs only.
At the other end, Quinton de Kock was playing on 6 of 8 balls against spinners. However, when the fast bowlers came, he started hitting big shots. De Cock hit 3 sixes Prasidh Krishna and Ferguson, which took team Mumbai to the score of 56 without any loss. The team was at a decent score of 56 until the end of the powerplay overs. Quinton de Kock also welcomed Andre Russell with his massive attacks and back-to-back fours. Sunil Narine then provided team Kolkata A Great Big through to in the form of captain Rohit Sharma. Sharma mistimed the ball while playing sweep shot, and he was caught at the long-on. Even after getting a brilliant start, team Mumbai could only score 29 runs from10 to 15 overs. Prasidh Krishna took wickets of Suryakumar Yadav and Quinton de Kock.
Kolkata bowlers smashed Mumbai’s batting lineup
After the frequent dismissals, the responsibility on Karen Pollard to help team Mumbai. In the 18th over, Pollard hit a strong 6 of Prasidh Krishna and a 4 to the fine leg in the next ball. He scored 21 runs in 13 balls. However, he was late, and he could not make it big. In addition, the second wall of 20th over Pollard was run out. After Pollard, Krunal Pandya state at the crease until the end of their innings.
Kolkata Innings
The openers of team Kolkata Venkatesh Iyer and Shubman Gill give their team a great start for the second time in back-to-back 2 games. Shubman Gill started the innings with the big shots of Trent Boult. At the other end, Venkatesh Iyer hit 6 of them over to the deep square leg. In the next over, Venkatesh Iyer hit a superb 6 and 2 fours of Adam Milne. By that time, Mumbai’s fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah bold Shubman Gill with his off-cutter ball, but until then, team Kolkata reached 40 runs in 3 overs. Batting at Number 3 Tripathi also continued the same rhythm for Kolkata. By the end of power play, he hit the big shot to the third man and paddled Milne to the short fine, and took the team to 63 for 1.
After the field destruction got lifted, Venkatesh Iyer and Tripathi continued their big-hitting. Venkatesh Iyer was the first batsman to score 50 in 25 balls for the team. Chasing the target of 155 runs, team Kolkata was in attacking form since they started. Shubman Gill got out early, but Venkatesh Iyer and Tripathi have at it for the 88 runs in 52 balls. Venkatesh Iyer scored 53 runs in 30 balls while Tripathi remained unbeaten 74 in 42 balls. With the help of both players’ runs, the team chased the target of 156 runs in 15.1 overs.
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