By Admin 
Kolkata Knight Riders have defeated Mumbai Indians by 4 wickets. This is KKR’s sixth win in the last 7 matches and has kept their playoff hopes alive. Kolkata registered victory on the basis of fighting innings of Manish Pandey and Rovman Powell. Sunil Narine’s historic bowling spell also played a big role in the victory.
In this match played at Eden Gardens, Mumbai Indians team was able to score 147 runs while batting first. Mumbai’s innings was also stopped midway in this rain-affected match. After the flop of Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickleton and Suryakumar Yadav, Mumbai somehow reached 147 runs, thanks to the short innings of Corbin Bosch (32 runs), Hardik Pandya (26 runs) and Tilak Verma (20 runs).
Kolkata, which came to chase the target of 148 runs, did not have a good start, because Finn Allen, who had scored 93 runs in the last match, could score only 8 runs this time. Ajinkya Rahane also got out after scoring 21 runs and Cameron Green, worth Rs 25 crore, took 2 wickets in bowling but could not show his strength with the bat. Within no time, 3 wickets of KKR had fallen till 54 runs.
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From here Manish Pandey and Rovman Powell took over the innings and made a very important partnership of 64 runs. Pandey scored 45 runs and Powell scored 40 runs. Kolkata successfully chased the target in the 19th over. Let us tell you that Sunil Narine gave only 13 runs in 4 overs in this match. This is the 80th time in IPL that Narine has given runs at an economy rate of 6 or less in a spell of 4 overs.
At the same time, Kolkata’s playoff hopes are alive, because it has come to sixth place in the points table with 13 points and the biggest thing is that Kolkata’s net run rate has also become positive, which is increasing the difficulties for Punjab Kings.
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