4! He might have lost his opening partner, but Nitish Rana is still going strong. He pulls over midwicket for four. KKR 80/1
4! He might have lost his opening partner, but Nitish Rana is still going strong. He pulls over midwicket for four. KKR 80/1
After 9 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 73/1 ( Nitish Rana 37 , Rahul Tripathi 1)
Rahul Chahar gets his first over of the night, and he's greeted with a four by Shubman Gill, that's sent racing behind square leg. Gill adds to his four with a six, putting some real juice into his shot and sending it over the boundary rope past long-on. Uh oh, what has Gill done there? He got a bit carried away, and he miscues his shot, sending it straight to Pollard at long-off. That's a big wicket, but is it too little too late for MI?
OUT! That's one hit too many from Shubman Gill, and he holes out to Pollard at long-off! Shubman Gill c Pollard b Chahar 33 (24)
6! Another huge hit from Shubman Gill, this one is wide of long-on and it has enough juice on it to cross the boundary rope. KKR 72/0
4! Shubman Gill's turn to do a bit of hitting, that's dispatched well behind square leg. KKR 66/0
After 8 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 62/0 ( Nitish Rana 37 , Shubman Gill 23)
Kieron Pollard gets a crack at bowling. Can the Trinidadian pacer make a dent in KKR's batting? His first ball is a dot, I'm not sure what Rana was trying there, but I'm sure it didn't work. Another dot ball from Pollard, and then Rana gets a good strong connection, it's hammered wide of deep midwicket and just about evades a diving Trent Boult at the boundary line to go out for a 6. Rana hits a four off the very next ball, this one's wide of sweeper cover. Two more singles make it 12 off the over, KKR are easing towards a win here.
4! Nitish Rana washes down that six with a boundary! That one's hit wide of sweeper cover! KKR 60/0
6! What a hit from Nitish Rana! That's hit wide of deep midwicket! KKR 56/0
After 7 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 50/0 ( Nitish Rana 26 , Shubman Gill 22)
Krunal Pandya's back, his last over was quite economical. Can he do it again? Rohit Sharma's really struggling to find an answer for the pair of Gill and Rana, and pace just does not seem to be doing the trick at the moment. Not the worst over from Krunal, he gives away just five runs. The final run brings up the 50-run mark for this partnership. We head into a strategic timeout, and Sharma has a lot of strategising to do.
After 6 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 45/0 ( Nitish Rana 23 , Shubman Gill 20)
Back to pace, Jansen to bowl his second over. That's a bit of a risky single, Gill was almost run out there! Jansen tried to kick the ball onto the stumps, but his inner footballer deserted him, and he hoofed it wide. Had his kick been on target, Gill would almost definitely have been out. Well it wasn't, and Gill punishes Jansen by hammering back-to-back boundaries, one over mid-on and the other past deep square! Jansen gets a dot ball in there, before Gill sends another boundary racing past him
IPL 2021, Live Cricket Score, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) vs Mumbai Indians (MI): Trent Boult comes back into the bowling attack, and his first three deliveries are all singles. Can he get another wicket and really put some pressure on KKR? Nope, he can't, and what's worse, Rana's just hit him for a boundary there, that's pulled over midwicket. Another single to end the over, and that's 8 off it. KKR are approaching an RRR of around 7, they're finding this a bit too easy at the moment.
Preview: Eoin Morgan-led Kolkata Knight Riders and Rohit Sharma's Mumbai Indians will lock horns at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai in match 5 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 season.
KKR narrowly missed out on a playoff spot after finishing fifth in the standings, level on points with fourth-placed Royal Challengers Bangalore but with an inferior net run-rate. Mumbai Indians had a tournament to remember last season, as they successfully beat out the likes of Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad to retain their title, taking their overall tally to five trophies.
The Kolkata Knight Riders began their campaign with a 10-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad. Nitish Rana top-scored for KKR in that contest, scoring 80 runs off 56 balls, while Rahul Tripathi chipped in with a half-century, scoring 53 in 29, as KKR put up a total of 187/6. It proved to be too much for SRH to chase down, and the David Warner-led side fell short of their target, despite the best efforts of Jonny Bairstow and Manish Pandey, who put together a partnership of 92 runs.
Mumbai Indians, on the other hand, faced defeat in their first match of the season, as Royal Challengers Bangalore managed to steal a victory on the very last ball of their innings. Chris Lynn was the high-scorer for MI, getting 49 in 35 balls to push his team to a total of 159/9. RCB then chased down that total in exactly 20 overs, despite the best efforts of Marco Jansen and Jasprit Bumrah, both of whom bagged two wickets apiece.
Squads:
Kolkata Knight Riders: Eoin Morgan (Captain), Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Tim Seifert (wk), Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun CV, Kuldeep Yadav, Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Vaibhav Arora, Karun Nair, Harbhajan Singh, Ben Cutting, Venkatesh Iyer, Pawan Negi.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Quinton de Kock (WK), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (WK), Chris Lynn, Anmolpreet Singh, Saurabh Tiwary, Aditya Tare, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Rahul Chahar, Jayant Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mohsin Khan, Adam Milne, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, James Neesham, Yudhvir Charak, Marco Jansen, Arjun Tendulkar.
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