Kieron Pollard powered Mumbai Indians to a sensational 3 wickets win over Kings XI Punjab at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. It was Mumbai Indians' third win in a row and overall fourth win of this season.
Earlier after being asked to bat first, Kings XI Punjab openers Chris Gayle and KL Rahul gave a strong 116 runs start to their team and set the platform for a big score. But after Chris Gayle's wicket, Kings XI Punjab couldn't score quick runs in next a few overs but in the end, KL Rahul smashed Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah and scored 38 runs in their two overs and also brought up his maiden IPL hundred. KL Rahul scored unbeaten 100 runs off 64 balls while Chris Gayle played 63 runs knock.
In reply, Mumbai Indians started off poorly and lost Siddhesh Lad, Suryakumar Yadav, and Quinton de Kock cheaply and reduced to 62/3 in 9 overs. In the last 11 overs, Mumbai Indians needed 136 runs and it was looking a very tough task but stand-in captain Kieron Pollard started playing his shots and smashed all Punjab bowlers and his 83 runs knock off just 31 balls had set the match before he got out in the final over. After Pollard's wicket, Mumbai needed 4 runs off 4 balls which Alzarri Joseph and Rahul Chahar scored and took their team home.
All the major stats and facts from the 24th match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab in Mumbai :
1 - Rohit Sharma missed his first ever match for Mumbai Indians in the IPL. He had played all 133 matches since his debut for this team in IPL 2011.
1 - KL Rahul scored his first hundred in the IPL. And he is also the 10th player to score a hundred for Kings XI Punjab in the IPL.
10 - Number of sixes Kieron Pollard hit in his innings - the second most in an innings for Mumbai Indians in the IPL.
Most sixes in an innings for MI in IPL -
11 - Sanath Jayasuriya vs CSK at Mumbai, 2008
10 - Kieron Pollard vs KXIP at Mumbai, 2019
8 - Kieron Pollard vs SRH at Mumbai, 2013
7 - Nitish Rana vs KXIP at Indore, 2017
83 - Kieron Pollard's score of 83 runs is the second highest individual score on captaincy debut in the IPL.
Highest individual scores on captaincy debut in IPL -
93* - Shreyas Iyer (DD) vs KKR at Delhi, 2018
83 - Kieron Pollard (MI) vs KXIP at Mumbai, 2019
64 - Aaron Finch (PW) vs KXIP at Mohali, 2013
55 - Murali Vijay (KXIP) vs GL at Rajkot, 2016
198 - The successful run chase of 198 is the second highest successful run chase for Mumbai Indians in the IPL -
Highest successful run chases for MI in IPL -
199 vs KXIP at Indore, 2017
198 vs KXIP at Mumbai, 2019
190 vs RR at Mumbai, 2014
602 - Kieron Pollard completed 600 sixes in T20 cricket. He became the second player after Chris Gayle to achieve this milestone.
Most sixes in T20 cricket -
925 - Chris Gayle
602 - Kieron Pollard
485 - Brendon McCullum
417 - Shane Watson
372 - Dwayne Smith
