The Mumbai Indians (MI) are hosting Kolkata night Riders (KKR) in the last league match of the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the iconic Wankhede Stadium. After winning the toss, the MI skipper, Rohit Sharma asked the visitors to bat first and his decision backfired as Chris Lynn came out all guns blazing.
During the toss, the KKR skipper, Dinesh Karthik revealed that they have just one change in their squad as Prasidh Krishna replaced Piyush Chawla. On the other hand, MI made a couple of changes to their squad as Ishan Kishan and Mitchell McClenaghan came back in to replace Evin Lewis and Barinder Sran.
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Lynn along with Shubman Gill gave a decent start to the visitors as they added as many as 49 runs in the powerplay itself, but on the first ball of the 7th over Hardik Pandya dismissed Gill. In his next over, Hardik dismissed Lynn as well and after that KKR witnessed a decent dip in their scoring rate as from 57/2 after the 9th over, they were standing at 65/2 after the 12th over. However, the real magic happened in the 13th over of Lasith Malinga as he dismissed Karthik and Andre Russell in a matter of three balls. More importantly, Russell was dismissed for a golden duck.
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Robin Uthappa started the over with a six, but on the fourth ball of the over, Dinesh flicked the ball towards midwicket but ended up giving a catch to Krunal Pandya, who grabbed it inside the circle, but he had to leap at the right time to pluck the ball out of the air. Malinga ended the over with the dismissal of DreRuss as he delivered a bumper from around the stumps, and Russell found himself in an awkward position and the ball brushed his gloves before being caught by Quinton de Kock.
Here are the videos of both the dismissals:
Krunal's catch…!!https://t.co/1VhYDzCM7m
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russell's duck…!!https://t.co/0bW9HD45c1
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