Shreyas Iyer won against Hitman's Mumbai
Kolkata beat Mumbai and still alive but their qualification depend on results of other teams. For Mumbai, the tournament has already ended.
1st innings:
Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bowl against Kolkata. From Kolkata, Cummins came back in the playing 11. KKR started well as both of their openers played 24 balls but Iyer scored 43 on the one hand and Rahane made 25, who also was coming back. Kumar Kartikeya took wickets of both openers before impressive innings of Nitish Rana, he made 43 in 26 balls. Then the wickets begun to fall and Jasprit Bumrah ended up with stunning performances in bowling, he took 5 wickets by just giving 10 runs in four overs. Somehow, Kolkata managed to set the competitive total of 165 in 20 overs.
2nd innings:
Rohit Sharma made only 2 runs before got out by Southee and Mumbai got bad start. Ishaan Kishan scored fifty but took 43 deliveries. Apart from him, none of the other batters crossed the 20 run mark. Cummins took 3 wickets in 15th over and Mumbai got all out in 18th over. Cummins took 3 wickets and Russell also contributed in victory by taking 2 wickets. Mumbai lost the game by 52 runs. Despite of their lose, Bumrah won the award of the man of the match for his incredible performance.
Question for Mumbai fans:
In which season, Mumbai won most matches in group stage?
Can you answer it in comments?
2013 or 2017 may be
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