The Mumbai Indians (MI) skipper, Rohit Sharma was happy and relieved when MI managed to pull off a nail-biting win against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to get off the mark in IPL 2021 on Tuesday. At one stage, KKR was cruising at 104 for 2 during their 153-run chase when Rahul Chahar triggered a dramatic collapse in the middle overs. KKR was eventually stopped at 142 for 7 in 20 overs with Chahar bagged 4 wickets for 27 runs from his 4 overs.
Trent Boult and Krunal Pandya also played a crucial role with the ball. Boult defended 13 runs in the last over by giving away just 4 runs and also managed to scalped a couple of wickets while Krunal got 1 wicket for 13 runs from his 4 overs.
Talking about his team’s performance after the game, Rohit Sharma said, “It was a great fightback considering where the game was while they were batting. Anyone who came to bowl at different stages wanted to put their hands up and do something for the team. We can take a lot of confidence from this game. There were lots of positives.”
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He further added, “The way KKR started, they batted brilliantly in the first six overs. But once the powerplay was gone, the way Rahul came and got wickets was crucial. And Krunal at the end was also crucial. I can praise all the bowlers, honestly. Good signs for the team moving forward.”
Rohit also acknowledged the fact that most of their batsmen had a disappointing putting and it was a below-par in this game. MI was eventually got bundled out for 152 in 20 overs with just Suryakumar Yadav (56) and Rohit (40) making significant scores while the rest flopped.
Elaborating the same, Rohit Sharma said, “To be honest, we were 15-20 runs short. The way we started, we should have batted better. That’s happened twice, we need to see how to get better. But I don’t want to take credit away from the team.”
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Mumbai climbed to the second position on the IPL 2021 points table with their first win from 2 games while KKR dropped to 5th. MI will not be locking horns with the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the same venue on April 17 while KKR will lock horns with Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on April 18.
