Mumbai got its first win on the strength of its bowlers beat KKR | गेंदबाजों के दम पर मुंबई को मिली पहली जीत: कोलकाता को 8 विकेट से हराया; रहाणे बोले- हमने खराब बैटिंग की
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Mumbai Indians have registered the first win in the 18th season on the basis of the bowlers’ best performance. The team defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday. KKR was reduced to 116 runs while batting first. Mumbai achieved the target in the 13th over.
Fast bowler Ashwani Kumar, who made an IPL debut from Mumbai, took 4 wickets. Deepak Chahar got 2 wickets. In the batting, Ryan Ricelton scored a fifty, while Will Jacks scored 30 runs. Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 26 runs from Kolkata. Andre Russell got both wickets from the team. Read match updates …
Match analysis in 5 points …
1. Player of the Match
After winning the toss and bowling first, Mumbai took 2 wickets inside 7 balls. Ajinkya Rahane and Angkrish Raghuvanshi set up. In the fourth over, Ashwani Kumar sent Rahane to the pavilion on the first ball. He then took big wickets of Rinku Singh, Manish Pandey and Andre Russell. His performance pushed the KKR batters to the backfoot.
Ashwani said after the match
Happy, initially there was pressure, but the team made it very good. Before the match, just a banana was ate, there was pressure, but did not feel too hungry. Captain Hardik told me about just enjoying his debut. He advised me to bowl body line short pitch, which worked to me. Everyone in my village must be watching the match. Everyone was waiting for my debut. I got a chance today by the grace of God.
2. Hero of victory
- Trent bolt: Bolt, who came to bowl with the new ball, bowled Sunil Naren in the first over. He spent just 23 runs in 4 overs.
- Deepak Chahar: Chahar, who came to throw the second over, caught D Cock on the first ball. He then sent Venkatesh Iyer to the pavilion.
- Ryan Recellton: Opener Reelton, who came out to chase the target of 117 runs, made the match unilateral. He put a fifty and won the team while not outout.
3. Fighter of the Match
Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who came out to bat on number-4 from Kolkata and Ramandeep Singh, who landed on number-9, showed the fight. Both were the top scorer of the team. Raghuvanshi scored 26 runs off 16 balls. Ramandeep was dismissed for 22 runs off 12 balls. Among the bowlers, Andre Russell could show the fight, he took both wickets for the team.
4. Turning point
After losing the toss, KKR lost 5 wickets within 50 runs. Top-5 Batters returned to the pavilion, the team could not emerge from here. Raghuvanshi and Ramandeep showed the fight, but the team was all out in the 17th over.
5. Who said what?
Kolkata captain Ajinkya Rahane said
The entire team did bad batting. The pitch was good, 180–190 runs should have been scored on it. We have to learn fast after this match. There was not much to do anything in bowling. We scored less runs. There was a problem due to the falling wickets continuously. Losing 4 wickets in Powerplay is not a good start. Partnership in the middle is very important, but not a single batter could last till the end.
Mumbai captain Hardik Pandya said
Happy to win at home. The way we won this match, we are more happy to see it. We like to support players. There was more help on the pitch. Ashwani bowled well. The scouts of the team do very good work. They choose these young players who play the best for us. It was understood in the practice match itself that he has the ability of late swing. The way he took Russell’s wicket was good. He also caught Quinton’s best catch.
