End of match show
Our experts pick apart this encounter here:
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Starc seals it for KKR
Starc finishes with 4 for 33 from 3.5 overs.
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Tim David is out... so are MI?
This could be it. The wicket that sinks this match. David whipped the first ball of Mitchell Starc's 19th over for six over deep backward square, but then smashed the next one into the hands of long off.
While I'm typing that, Piyush Shawla has also holed out into the infield. Starc, who delivered an outstanding 17th over as well, is coming good at the death.
Starc's third over, the 17th of the innings:
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Starc's last over, the 19th:
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It's all over! See that second wicket in that over? That's the last one for MI. Mitchell Starc is back!
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Suryakumar goes!
A knee-high full toss from Dre Russ could have been bashed anywhere on the legside. SKY goes for the big whip over deep backward square, but gets a huge top edge that Phil Salt chases into the outfield and pouches almost nonchalantly. KKR back on top, with Mumbai Indians rapidly running out of options
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Suryakumar Yadav plunders 20 runs off the 14th
Just as it looked like Mumbai Indians were slipping into the dark, Suryakumar Yadav has applied the defibrillator to the innings and keeps them alive. Here's how Vaibhav Arora's third over went. All boundaries came off Surya's bat.
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The carved six over deep point was a particular highlight.
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Season low
0 The number of worse scores by the end of the 13th over than Mumbai Indians 91 for 6, at the Wankhede this year.
They're not chasing a massive score, but desperately need some boundaries now.
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MI lose five wickets for 33 runs
They'd been 38 for 1 after four overs. Midway through the 12th over, Mumbai Indians are 71 for 6, with Hardik Pandya the latest to go, misjudging the length of a Andre Russel delivery, and popping up a simple catch off his top edge.
This is soon after Sunil Narine had taken out Nehal Wadhera's off stump with a fast slider.
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Required rate climbing
10.3 Required rate for MI in the last 10 overs of their innings.
Although KKR had kept scoring quickly despite their loss of wickets, MI haven't quite done the same in their innings. They need a big push in the last 10 to keep their season alive.
Remember they have to win every match from now to have any hope of making the playoffs.
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Are Mumbai Indians sliding again?
Chakravarthy bowls a wide one that dips and bounces on Tilak Verma, who throws his bat at it and only give sa simple catch to Narine at short third. Mumbai Indians struggling now, at 61 for 4.
Eight overs in
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Rohit goes cheaply
11 Rohit Sharma's score in this match, off 12 balls. His last three innings brought 4, 8, and 6.
Sunil Narine might not have had an impact with the bat in this game, but he's making his presence known with the ball. With Mumbai Indians' run rate flagging a little in the powerplay, Rohit Sharma attempts to crash a fast Narine delivery over the legside, but winds up only giving a catch to midwicket, who runs back into the outfield to get under it.
Rohit has a century this season, but is on a run of low scores in the last few days. MI made 46 for in their powerplay.
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Starc strikes early, but KKR need more
Just after Ishan Kishan crashes him for a big six over deep square leg, Mitchell Starc takes out his leg stump. MI are still doing ok at 25 for 1 after three overs, though.
Their innings so far:
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Sudarshanan, our guy at the Wankhede for this match has this to add on the Kishan dismissal:
142.3kph, the Kishan dismissal delivery from Starc. The ball raced away to fine leg fence in no time after knocking over the leg stump.
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Mid-innings show
Our experts analyse that KKR innings and MI bowling performance.
We'll be back after the innings break.
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Bumrah ridiculous
18 What Bumrah conceded in 3.5 overs, while taking three wickets.
Venkatesh Iyer was batting beautifully when Bumrah came in for his final spell. KKR will have felt they still had some tricks left.
But Bumrah was unplayable at the death yet again, giving away just two runs off his 18th over (in which he also took two wickets), before in the final over, he bowled two dot balls to start, gave away a couple of runs off the third delivery, then flattened Venkatesh Iyer's middle stump fifth ball, to end KKR's innings.
There is no better bowler in this league, and Bumrah has proved it yet again.
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MI hit back
First, Venkatesh Iyer turns his back on Dre Russ and gets Russel run out.
Then, Ramandeep Singh is cramped for room as he plays the uppercut and is caught comfortably at deep third
Finally, Bumrah delivers a spectacular yorker to Mitchell Starc at the end of the 18th over, and bowls him off the inside edge.
The last two overs went like this:
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Just two runs off that 18th over by Bumrah. As many wickets as runs. Incredible.
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Pandya gets Pandey
The partnership is finally broken. What a stand it was for KKR though:
83 Runs Manish Pandey and Venkatesh Iyer put on together, for the sixth wicket.
After Venkatesh Iyer hit his fifty, Pandey holes out against the bowling of Pandya. But still, it was an important rebuilding stand - one that went at a very good rate, and kept KKR in sight of a competitive score, despite the early wickets.
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Bumrah not happy with conceding 12
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Bumrah was brought on to bowl his second over (13th of the innings), and ended up conceding 12 - the first ball giving away a glanced four off the pads.
He wasn't happy though, as Sudarshanan - our guy at the ground - reports:
Throughout the over, Bumrah was unhappy and made it clear to the ump after the first-ball four. He felt it went brushing the pads but was given as runs to the batter. Even after the over, having a quiet word with the umpire while walking towards backward point to field
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KKR hanging in there
Despite the loss of five wickets inside the first 37 balls of the innings, KKR continue to progress quickly, thanks mainly to Venkatesh Iyer, who has hit 43 off 29 by the end of the 12th over, with KKR still running at a run rate of close to nine.
If a few big hits come from Dre Russ later on, a total of 200 is not unthinkable.
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Chawla gets among the wickets
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One of MI's big problems this season has been their modest middle-overs bowling, with Piyush Chawla proving neither penetrative nor economical. He's been both in his first over here though. First ball, he gets Rinku Singh to prod one back to him off the leading edge, for a simple caught-and-bowled. And he gave away just three runs in that over.
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Hardik gets Narine,.. but KKR's strike rate strong
9.5 KKR's powerplay strike tate despite losing four wickets
Hardik Pandya bowls Narine with his second delivery, but KKR have still gone at almost 10 in the powerplay.
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Thushara keeps rocking it
It's been a minute since Malinga played for Mumbai Indians. But Nuwan Thushara is doing a fantastic rendition of a Malinga early spell, getting that outswinger going early. He's got two more wickets in his second over. He had Angkrish Raghuvanshi bunt one to cover after deceiving him with a wide-ish delivery that held up outside off. And then he head Shreyas Iyer chipping one to mid on, again the result of that late away-swing.
MI have three KKR wickets in the first three overs. Will they go for the kill here?
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Thushara strikes in the first over
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While CSK have a baby Malinga in Matheesha Pathirana, Malinga himself has been working with a baby Malinga of his own. And in the last two games, Nuwan Thushara has got that early outswing going, to test batters with the new ball. Phil Salt got him away for a boundary third ball, but that late swing got him in the end - a leading edge flying away high behind point as Salt aimed a shot over over midwicket.
Naman Dhir and Tilak Varma collided as they went for that catch, but thankfully for MI, Tilak - going back from point - held on.
More from Sudarshanan:
Bumrah had his hands on head seeing Tilak and Dhir on collision course. He was at short third.
Thushara concedes a six last ball, but still a decent over.
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Rohit early to the ground... but not in the starting XI.
Our guy at the Wankhede - S Sudarshanan - has this report:
Earlier, on the field, Rohit Sharma was the only one having a net facing Shams Mulani and a throwdown guy. The other MI and KKR players were yet to arrive at that stage. He was practising a fair few inside-out shots and the sweeps and reverse sweeps.
He's not in the XI as MI field first though. Likely to come in as an Impact Player when they start their chase, you'd think.
Here's some more from Sudarshanan:
The crowd is slowly filling up but it is not full house yet. Malinga and Chameera were seen exchanging a warm hug and a small chat a few minutes after toss.
Good to see some Lankan love at the Wankhede. Chameera being there is good news for KKR, it means he is back from Colombo after being forced to fly there to clear some US visa hurdles for the T20 World Cup.
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Narine MVP so far?
Sunil Narine's move back to the top order this season has been magic for KKR. He's scored 372 runs at a strike rate of 182, while he's also taken 11 wickets with an economy rate of 6.82.
According to ESPNcricinfo's smart stats, Narine is the second most impactful bowler this season (behind Jasprit Bumrah), and the 12th most impactful batter. No surprises that he's this season's MVP so far.
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ESPNcricinfo's Live Show
Our experts look forward to this clash here:
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Waddup.
3 Number of matches Mumbai Indians have won, out of 10 so far this season
Folks, welcome to this IPL clash at the Wankhede between the struggling Mumbai Indians, and Kolkata Knight Riders, who have flown up to second on the IPL table.
MI are desperate for a win here at home, after a couple of rough matches in Delhi and Lucknow. In fact they have to win EVERY match from now to have a chance of making the playoffs.
KKR are looking to embed themselves further at the top end of that table.
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