Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) pulled off a brilliant win over Mumbai Indians (MI) – in Monday night’s Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 game. The result keeps KKR alive in contention for an outside playoffs spot, while Mumbai slipped to 9 defeats- their most in any season of the IPL.
It was the Mumbai bowling unit’s inability to notch up wickets in the powerplay that derailed their momentum in the game. While MI did make a fabulous comeback late in the game- owing to the record-breaking spell of 5/10 Jasprit Bumrah, it was a very meek performance from the men in blue and gold.
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In fact, at one point during the match, the KKR batters managed to pick up a cheeky single while MI ‘keeper Ishan Kishan kept cluelessly searching for the ball. During the 9th over of Kolkata’s innings, Nitish Rana tried to reverse sweep Kumar Kartikeya for a boundary. However, Rana failed to connect the ball and he just managed to bottom-edge the ball right past Ishan Kishan’s legs.
Kishan, however, couldn’t spot the ball on time and was left cluelessly looking around as the ball rolled away to Bumrah at a short square leg.
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Kartikeya himself was seen animatedly yelling at Ishan Kishan to collect the ball, and the latter could only respond with a sheepish smile. Rana and Ajinkya Rahane had no intention of taking the single, but the situation panned out conveniently for them and they managed to score an extra run. Even Pommie Mbangwa, who was commentating at the time, was left amused by the incident.
Here’s the video of the incident:
Brief scores: KKR – 165/9 (Venkatesh 43, Nitish 43, Cummins 3/22) beat MI -113 (Kishan 51, Pollard 15, Bumrah 5/10) by 52 runs.
