NEW DELHI: Kolkata Knight Riders turned the primary group to qualify for the IPL 2024 playoffs with an 18-run win in opposition to Mumbai Indians on the Eden Gardens on Saturday.
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KKR went by to the playoffs with two away video games to spare.
The 2-time champions posted 157/7 with Venkatesh Iyer prime scoring with 42 off 21 balls after being requested to bat first in a 16-overs-a-side match.
Mumbai raced to 65/zero earlier than Varun Chakravarthy received the large wickets of influence substitute Rohit Sharma (19) and skipper Hardik Pandya (2).
Already out of the playoff race, five-time champions Mumbai completed on 139/8.
The official broadcaster of the event shared a video after the match which has former cricketer-turned-commentator Navjot Singh Sidhu lauding the KKR group and their mentor Gautam Gambhir.
Sidhu says within the video, “KKR is the one group which has bowlers who’ve taken 10-10 wickets and the sixth has taken 9. Present me one group who has this. Essentially the most worthwhile participant within the event is Sunil Narine. Who received Starc (Mitchell)? All people was saying 23 crore, 23 crore. The cynic is aware of the worth of every thing and the worth of nothing. It’s the worth addition, boss. Do not measure him in crores, simply see what worth addition he’s bringing. Have a look at KKR’s bowlers, prime batsmen, all people is in type. They stand like recruits, padded-up, all able to go in anytime. They’ve one parallel energy centre. All people will really feel they deserve to do this. They’ve steadiness, they’ve an awesome mentor, they’ve an outstanding captain. They’ve all people in type. What else would you like? You possibly can’t have every thing, the place will you retain it?”
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KKR went by to the playoffs with two away video games to spare.
The 2-time champions posted 157/7 with Venkatesh Iyer prime scoring with 42 off 21 balls after being requested to bat first in a 16-overs-a-side match.
Mumbai raced to 65/zero earlier than Varun Chakravarthy received the large wickets of influence substitute Rohit Sharma (19) and skipper Hardik Pandya (2).
Already out of the playoff race, five-time champions Mumbai completed on 139/8.
The official broadcaster of the event shared a video after the match which has former cricketer-turned-commentator Navjot Singh Sidhu lauding the KKR group and their mentor Gautam Gambhir.
Sidhu says within the video, “KKR is the one group which has bowlers who’ve taken 10-10 wickets and the sixth has taken 9. Present me one group who has this. Essentially the most worthwhile participant within the event is Sunil Narine. Who received Starc (Mitchell)? All people was saying 23 crore, 23 crore. The cynic is aware of the worth of every thing and the worth of nothing. It’s the worth addition, boss. Do not measure him in crores, simply see what worth addition he’s bringing. Have a look at KKR’s bowlers, prime batsmen, all people is in type. They stand like recruits, padded-up, all able to go in anytime. They’ve one parallel energy centre. All people will really feel they deserve to do this. They’ve steadiness, they’ve an awesome mentor, they’ve an outstanding captain. They’ve all people in type. What else would you like? You possibly can’t have every thing, the place will you retain it?”
Sidhu provides in one other video, “I see that each time there may be stress, Gautam Gambhir will get extra impressed, that I ought to go and inform the boys this and that. And it must be precisely like that. All the things is ok when issues are regular. Anyone generally is a pilot when the ocean is calm. However an individual’s character is examined when the going is hard.”
That is the primary time KKR have crushed MI each at Wankhede and on the Eden Gardens in an IPL season.
