Ishan Kishan entered into the Indian Premier League 2021 with high confidence after scoring fifty on his international debut against England. But he couldn’t translate his form into performance in the first five games of the season for Mumbai Indians. His latest failure came against Punjab Kings, where he played a painful inning of 6 runs in 17 balls.
Kishan came onto the crease after Quinton de Kock’s wicket. Punjab Kings were bowling in tandem and didn’t allow free runs to MI batsmen. When Kishan came, he found it hard to break free and faced a string of dot balls. Moises Henriques and Deepak Hooda contained him very well. And then came young leg-spinner Ravi Bishnoi to reap the reward of those dot balls.
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In order to break the shackles, Kishan moved towards his off-stump to play a cut shot against Bishnoi. However, the leg-spinner outsmarted the wicketkeeper-batsman by bowling a googly. KL Rahul ended Kishan’s struggle at the crease by taking a fine catch behind the wickets.
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Earlier, PKBS won the toss and asked MI to have a bat in Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium. Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock found it hard to score boundaries on this surface and registered the lowest powerplay score of this season. Their first boundary came on the 30th ball of the innings as they managed just 21 runs in the powerplay.
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Rohit and Suryakumar Yadav shared a crucial partnership of 79 runs for the third wicket and brought MI’s innings back on track. MI skipper scored a fine fifty and got out after scoring 63 runs. Mohammed Shami and Ravi Bishnoi were picks of the bowlers as they registered identical figures of 2/21 in their four overs. MI stretched their total to 131/6 in their allotted 20 overs.
