The 51st match of IPL 2024 is being played between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders. Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bowl first. Kolkata team was all out on the score of 169 runs in 19.5 overs. Kolkata defeated Mumbai by 24 runs.
Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Mumbai Indians by 24 runs. This defeat of Mumbai has almost ended its hopes of reaching the playoffs. At the same time, KKR has 14 points in its account. Shreyas Iyer’s team is at second place in the points table and is on the verge of qualifying for the playoffs. Mumbai is at ninth position with -0.356 net run rate.
Mumbai, which set out to chase the target of 170 runs, did not get off to a great start. In the powerplay, MI lost three wickets at the score of 46 runs. Ishan Kishan was out after scoring 13 runs, Naman Dheer and Rohit Sharma scored 11-11 runs. In this match, Suryakumar Yadav, who came to bat at number four, gave an explosive performance. He scored 56 runs in 35 balls. The 360 degree batsman hit a fifty in 30 balls. This is the 24th half-century of his IPL career. Whereas, Tim David managed to score 24 runs. For Mumbai, Tilak scored four, Nehal scored six, Pandya scored one, Gerald scored eight, Piyush scored zero and Jaspreet (not out) scored one run. Mumbai team was all out after scoring 145 runs in 18.5 overs.
Mitchell Starc took three wickets in the 19th over. He dismissed Tim David, Piyush Chawla and Gerald Coetzee. He took four wickets in this match. Whereas, Varun Chakraborty, Sunil Narine and Andre Russell took two wickets each.
