IPL 2021 Live / Mumbai Indians Beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 10 runs

Mumbai Indians (MI) have won their first match of the season. He was defeated in the last match. In the 5th match of the IPL 2021 season, Mumbai defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 10 runs. Rahul Chahar took 4 wickets for 27 runs for Mumbai. KKR opener Nitish Rana made his second consecutive fifty. He has become the top scorer by scoring 137 runs in 2 matches of the season.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Apr 13, 2021, 11:49 PM
Mumbai Indians (MI) have won their first match of the season. He was defeated in the last match. In the 5th match of the IPL 2021 season, Mumbai defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 10 runs. Rahul Chahar took 4 wickets for 27 runs for Mumbai. KKR opener Nitish Rana made his second consecutive fifty. He has become the top scorer by scoring 137 runs in 2 matches of the season.


Mumbai team has always been heavy on Kolkata. He has played 28 matches against KKR so far, winning only 22 and losing 6. This is Mumbai's 12th win against Kolkata in the last 13 matches.

Batting first after losing the toss, Mumbai Indians were all out for 152 runs. In response, the Kolkata team could only manage 142 runs after losing 7 wickets. For Kolkata, Nitish Rana scored the highest innings of 57 runs off 47 balls. Shubman Gill scored 33 off 24 balls.

KKR, Krunal Pandya and Trent Boult failed to score 31 runs in the last 5 overs.

Kolkata team started fast. The team completed 50 runs in 7 overs. KKR got the first blow at a score of 72.

Spinner Rahul Chahar caught opener Shubman Gill at the hands of Pollard. KKR could only add 12 runs that Rahul gave the second blow.

Rahul Tripathi, who put a fifty in the last match, was dismissed by 5 runs. His catch was caught by wicketkeeper Dickock on Chahar's ball.

KKR lost the third wicket at a score of 104. From here the team could not manage and by 122 runs, the team lost 5 wickets.

Rahul completed his 4 overs here, in which 4 players of Kolkata team with 27 runs were sent to the pavilion. Rahul did the demolition of the middle order of KKR.

The Kolkata team needed 31 runs in the last 5 overs to win. At this time, Dinesh Karthik and Andre Russell were present at the crease, but could not win the team.

In the last over, the KKR team needed 15 runs to win. Karthik-Russell was at the crease. Trent Bolt first dismissed Russell and then Pat Cummins to win the match.

Trent Boult conceded just 4 runs with 2 wickets in the last over. At the same time, spinner Krunal Pandya scored the 16th and 18th overs. Took 1 wicket for 4 runs in these two overs and overturned the match from here.

Andre Russell got two lives Bumrah left Russell's easy catch on the third ball of the 18th over. The over was of Krunal Pandya. At this time Russell was playing for 5 runs. Earlier, Krunal missed Russell's catch on his own ball.

During the bowling, Rohit Sharma came to the 14th over of the Mumbai team captain Rohit Sharma himself. He was injured just before the first ball after the runup. The heel of his left leg twisted. The doctor gave him treatment on the ground itself. After this, Rohit completed the over.

Suryakumar made a quick fifty

Mumbai Indians all out for 152 runs. Suryakumar Yadav smashed a blistering 56 off 36 balls. Captain Rohit Sharma scored 43 runs off 32 balls. Hardik and Krunal scored 15 each. Apart from these, no batsman could touch the figure of ten. For Kolkata, Andre Russell took 5 and Pat Cummins took 2 wickets. Famous Krishna, Shakib Al Hasan and Varun Chakraborty got 1–1 wickets.

In 2 overs of Andre Russell, Mumbai team collapsed, KKR team all-rounder Andre Russell scored just 2 overs in the match and sent half of Mumbai's team to the pavilion. He took Mumbai's last 5 wickets for just 15 runs. In the last over, he hunted 3 players. Russell dismissed compatriot Kieron Pollard as well as Krunal Pandya, Marco Jensen, Rahul Chahar and Jaspreet Bumrah.

Mumbai did not have a good start. The team lost the first wicket for 10 runs. Wicketkeeper batsman Quinton Dickock, playing the first match of the season, returned to the pavilion after scoring 2 runs. Spinner Varun Chakraborty had Dickock caught out.

However, captain Rohit Sharma held one end and teamed up with Suryakumar to give him a quick start. The team's score reached 42 runs in the power-play.

The captain of the KKR team, Morgan, got the initial 6 overs from the spinners, which got only one success, but Rohit and could not control the rising score.

Morgan gave Pat Cummins the 7th over of the innings. The next over was done by the famous hero of the previous match, Krishna, but it showed no benefit.

Rohit-Suryakumar handled the innings for the second wicket with a partnership of 76 runs off 51 balls. Here the team lost 2 wickets in scoring 2 runs.

Mumbai lost 3 wickets for 88 runs. Ishan Kishan also returned to the pavilion after Suryakumar. Rohit held one end in hopes of a big score.

Mumbai team lost the fourth wicket for 115 runs. Rohit was able to add 27 runs for the fourth wicket with Hardik that Pat Cummins gave him a clean bold.

The team could add only 8 runs that Hardik also returned to the pavilion. The famous Krishna made him his first victim in the match.

The fast bowlers of Kolkata team bowled tight in the last 5 overs. The Mumbai team ahead of them lost 7 wickets in scoring the last 37 runs.