By Admin 
In the second match of the Indian Premier League 2026, Mumbai Indians (MI) defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 6 wickets. Batting first in this match played at Wankhede Stadium, KKR had scored 220 runs. While chasing the target, Rohit Sharma (78) and Ryan Rickelton (81) scored half-centuries, which laid a strong foundation of the innings. This is Mumbai’s biggest successful run chase. Player of the match award went to Shardul Thakur, who took 3 wickets.
MI’s biggest successful run chase
Chasing the target of 221, Ryan Rickelton and Rohit Sharma respected the first few balls, both played carefully. From the third over, both of them started hitting big, then defeated every bowler fiercely. Rohit scored a half-century in 23 balls, which is his fastest IPL half-century. He scored 78 runs in 38 balls with the help of 6 sixes and 6 fours. He was caught out on the ball of Vaibhav Arora, along with Rickelton they made a partnership of 148 runs for the first wicket.
Suryakumar Yadav, who came as an impact player, was out after scoring only 16 runs. Ryan Rickelton played a brilliant inning of 81 runs in 43 balls, in which he hit 8 sixes and 4 fours. He was run out. Tilak Verma scored 20 runs in 14 balls and Hardik Pandya scored 18 runs in 11 balls. Mumbai Indians achieved the target in 19.1 overs and won by 6 wickets. This is Mumbai’s biggest successful run chase of IPL.
Lack of experience was seen in the captaincy of KKR, Cameron Green was not brought to bowl. Sunil Narine was also not given bowling at important times. Vaibhav Arora spent 52 runs in 4 overs. Blessing Muzarabani gave 34 runs in 3 overs. Varun Chakraborty gave away 48 runs in 4 overs, but he could not take any wicket. Karthik Tyagi took 1 wicket for 43 runs in 4 overs. Narine took 1 wicket for 30 runs in 3 overs.
KKR innings (highlights)
Captain Ajinkya Rahane and Finn Allen made a great start, both made a partnership of 69 runs for the first wicket. Allen was out on the second ball of the last over of the powerplay, he scored 37 runs in 17 balls. After this, captain Rahane completed his half-century, he scored 67 runs in 40 balls. In this innings the captain hit 5 sixes and 3 fours.
Cameron Green scored 18 runs in 10 balls, his innings was ended by Shardul Thakur. After this, Thakur also made Ajinkya Rahane walk. After this, Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored an important half-century and played an important role in the team’s score crossing 200. Angkrish scored 51 runs in 29 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 6 fours. Rinku Singh scored 33 runs in 21 balls, he could not hit any six in this innings. Batting first, Kolkata scored 220 runs losing 4 wickets in 20 overs.
Shardul Thakur took 3 wickets for Mumbai Indians, one wicket was in the name of Hardik Pandya. Shardul gave 39 runs in 4 overs and Hardik gave 39 runs in 3 overs. Trent Boult gave 38 runs in 4 overs and Jasprit Bumrah gave 35 runs in 4 overs.
mumbai indians playing 11
Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton (wicketkeeper), Tilak Verma, 4 Hardik Pandya (captain), 5 Sherfane Rutherford, Naman Dheer, Shardul Thakur, Mayank Markande, Ghazanfar, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult.
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing 11
Finn Allen, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty, Blessing Muzarabani.