2024-05-04 13:01:18
Mumbai: The 51st match of the Indian Premier League 2024 is being played between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders at the Wankhede Cricket Stadium in Mumbai. In this match, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl first, which proved to be very effective. Except Venkatesh Iyer and Manish Pandey, all the KKR batsmen were seen struggling against the Mumbai bowlers. Within 60 runs, half the Kolkata team was out.
After this Venkatesh Iyer and Manish Pandey took charge and took the team to a fighting total. Especially Venky Iyer impressed everyone with his batting. Wickets were falling continuously from one end. Venkatesh Iyer was fighting alone at the other end. His fighting innings played an important role in KKR’s innings.
Venkatesh Iyer played an important inning of 70 runs.
29 year old Venkatesh Iyer, batting at a strike rate of 134, played an important inning of 70 runs in 52 balls. He hit 6 fours and 3 sixes during his innings. However, he got out while playing creative short play behind the wicket on the ball of Jasprit Bumrah. Apart from this, if we talk about Manish Pandey, he faced 31 balls and played an inning of 42 runs while batting at a strike rate of 135.
Mumbai has a target of 170 runs
After losing the toss, Kolkata Knight Riders could not even play the full 20 overs and were all out after scoring 169 runs in 19.5 overs. Apart from Venky Iyer and Manish Pandey, all the batsmen completely flopped. For Mumbai Indians, Jasprit Bumrah and Nuwan Thushara took 3 wickets each while captain Hardik Pandya also got 2 wickets. Piyush Chawla also took 1 wicket in his account.