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IPL 2026 MI vs KKR Match Highlights: Mumbai Indians (MI) broke a 13-year-old record by defeating Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 6 wickets in the second match of IPL 2026. In the match played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, KKR, batting first, scored 220/4 runs on the board in 20 overs. In response, Mumbai won by scoring 224/4 runs in 19.1 overs. This was the biggest chase of IPL for Mumbai. The innings of Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton contributed significantly in helping the team win.
Rickleton scored 81 runs in 43 balls with the help of 4 fours and 8 sixes. Apart from this, Rohit Sharma scored 78 runs in 38 balls with the help of 6 fours and 6 sixes. The remaining work was done by Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma and Hardik Pandya. During this, Vaibhav Arora, Karthik Tyagi and Sunil Narine took 1 wicket each for Kolkata.
13 year drought ends
Mumbai had lost its first match in the last 13 seasons of the Indian Premier League. Breaking this record, Mumbai won. Earlier, MI had won the first match of the season in 2012.
Mumbai was successful in bowling first
In the match, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya had won the toss and decided to bowl. Batting first, KKR put 220 runs on the board, after which it seemed that victory would not be easy at all for Mumbai. But Mumbai registered a one-sided victory in the run chase.
Rahane and Raghuvanshi’s innings were useless
Ajinkya Rahane played the biggest innings for KKR, scoring 67 runs in 40 balls with the help of 3 fours and 5 sixes. Apart from this, Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 51 runs in 29 balls with the help of 6 fours and 2 sixes. But Mumbai’s batting ruined both their innings.
Mumbai’s explosive start
The opening pair of Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton gave a good start to Mumbai Indians for the run chase. Both of them made a partnership of 148 runs (71 balls) for the first wicket. This partnership almost put the match in Mumbai’s account. The team got its first blow at 148 runs in 11.5 overs.
After this, Ryan Rickleton and Suryakumar Yadav made a partnership of 31 (15 balls) for the second wicket. This partnership ended at the score of 179 runs in 14.2 overs when Mumbai got its second blow in the form of Surya. Surya scored 16 runs in 8 balls with the help of 3 fours. After this, the team got the third blow in the form of Ryan Rickleton, who was run out and returned to the pavilion at 183 runs in 15.2 overs.
Then the fourth wicket fell at 214 runs in 18.4 overs in the form of Tilak Verma, who scored 20 runs in 14 balls. In the end, Hardik Pandya and Naman Dheer made the team cross the victory line by making a partnership of 09* runs for the fifth wicket.