A half-century from Suryakumar Yadav and a decent knock from Tilak Varma propelled Mumbai Indians to 161/4 against Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL 2022 match on Wednesday
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A half-century from Suryakumar Yadav and a decent knock from Tilak Varma propelled Mumbai Indians (MI) to 161/4 against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the IPL 2022 match at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune on Wednesday. After losing the toss and being asked to bat, MI lost their captain Rohit Sharma in the third over with only six runs on the board.
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After losing Rohit Sharma’s wicket, Dewald Brewis (29) came in and partnered with opener Ishan Kishan to take MI’s score to 45. The South African looked dangerous as he hit two boundaries and two sixes in his 19-ball cameo before falling to the delivery of Varun Chakravarthy in the 8th over. Ishaan Kishan’s (14) slow-going innings came to end in the 11th over as he was caught by Shreyas Iyer on Pat Cummins’ delivery. MI was struggling to maintain a healthy run-rate as they lost their important top-order players in the first 11 overs.
From there on, Suryakumar Yadav (52) anchored the innings and Tilak Varma (38) played a quickfire knock to up the ante. Yadav hit five boundaries and two six in his 36-ball innings. Varma chipped in with three boundaries and two sixes in 27 balls. The duo stitched a partnership of 83 runs before Cummins dismissed Suryakumar Yadav in the first ball of the last over.
Kieron Pollard came in to play five balls and scored a quick 20 after hitting three sixes.
The last five overs proved to be crucial as Mumbai batters scored 76 runs to reach a respectable total.
Umesh Yadav has been the pick of the bowlers for KKR. After dismissing the danger man Rohit early, Yadav maintained a good economy of 6.25 in his spell. With this wicket, Rohit has fallen to Yadav for the fifth time in their IPL rivalry. He returned figures of 1/25 in four overs. Pat Cummins took two wickets but leaked 49 runs in four overs. Sunil Narine managed to keep strokeplay under control as he conceded only 26 runs in four overs. Varun Chakravarthy gave away 32 runs and took the crucial wicket of Dewald Brewis.
