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The 60th Match of the Indian Premier League 2024 was played yesterday between Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. In which Kolkata Knight Riders won the match by 18 runs to become 1st qualifier for the Indian Premier League 2024.
The match toss time was 19:00 IST and the Match start time was 19:30 IST but due to the rain, the toss happened at 20:45 IST and the Match started at 21:15 IST and was reduced to 16 overs per side instead of 20 overs.
TOSS- Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to bowl.
Kolkata Knight Riders Innings- Kolkata Knight Riders batted first and started the inning not very well, Venkatesh Iyer played a very brilliant quick inning of 42 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 6 boundaries in just 21 balls, Nitish Rana scored 33 runs with the help of 1 six and 4 boundaries in just 23 balls, Andre Russell scored 24 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 2 boundaries in just 14 balls, Rinku Singh scored 20 runs with the help of 2 sixes in just 12 balls, Ramandeep Singh played an unbeaten inning of 17 runs with the help of 1 six and 1 boundary in just 8 balls, Shreyas Iyer was dismissed just for 7 runs in 10 balls, Philip Salt 6 runs in 5 balls, Sunil Narine dismissed just in 1 ball without scoring, and Mitchell Starc remained unbeaten for 2 runs in 2 balls. In this way, Kolkata Knight Riders scored 157 runs after losing 7 wickets in the stipulated 16 overs and set a target of 158 runs in front of Mumbai Indians.
Mumbai Indians bowlers- Jasprit Bumrah took 2 wickets for 39 runs in his spell, Piyush Chawla 2 wickets for 28 runs in 3 overs, Anshul Kamboj 1 wicket for 24 runs in 3 overs, Nuwan Thushara 1 wicket for 31 runs in 3 overs, and Hardik Pandya was wicketless for 32 runs in 3 overs.
Mumbai Indians inning- Mumbai Indians chasing 158 runs in the second inning could manage just 139 runs after losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 16 overs and lost the match by 18 runs. Mumbai Indians started the inning very well but the ending was very poor, Ishan Kishan played a very brilliant quick inning of 40 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 5 boundaries in just 22 balls, Tilak Varma played a quick brilliant inning of 32 runs with the help of 1 six and 5 boundaries in just 17 balls, Rohit Sharma 19 runs in 24 balls, Naman Dhir 17 runs in just 6 balls, Suryakumar Yadav 11 runs in 14 balls, apart from this, Hardik Pandya was dismissed just for 2 runs in 4 balls, Nehal Wadhera 3 runs in 3 balls, Tim David was dismissed without scoring in just 3 balls, Anshul Kamboj remained unbeaten for 2 runs in 2 balls, and Piyush Chawla also remains unbeaten for 1 run in 2 balls. In this way, Mumbai Indians chasing 158 runs could manage just 139 runs losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 16 overs and loss the match by 18 runs.
Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers- Varun Chakaravarthy took 2 wickets just for 17 runs in his spell, Andre Russell 2 wickets for 34 runs in 3 overs, Harshit Rana 2 wickets for 34 runs in 3 overs, Sunil Narine 1 wicket for 21 runs in 3 overs, Vaibhav Arora was wicketless for 16 runs in 2 overs, and Mitchell Starc also wicketless for 11 runs in 1 over.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH- Kolkata Knight Riders bowler Varun Chakaravarthy was selected as the player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling took 2 wickets just for 17 runs in his spell.
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