Defending champions Mumbai Indians beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 49 runs in Abu Dhabi yesterday and registered their first win of IPL 2020.
Earlier Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and asked Mumbai Indians to bat first. Shivam Mavi provided them a good start by removing Quinton de Kock for just 1 run. Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav counter-attacked and their 90 runs partnership set the platform for a big score. Yadav got run out for 47 runs and Rohit Sharma brought up his fifty.
In the middle overs, Knight Riders tried to make a comeback but they couldn't and captain Sharma's 80 runs off 54 balls and cameos from Saurabh Tiwary, Hardik Pandya, and Kieron Pollard helped Mumbai to post 195/5 on the board.
In reply, Kolkata Knight Riders didn't have a good start and lost Shubman Gill and Sunil Narine cheaply. Dinesh Karthik and Nitish Rana tried to score quick runs but they couldn't. Andre Russell and Eoin Morgan too disappointed. In the end, Pat Cummins hit a few sixes, and eventually, Knight Riders finished on 146/9 and lost the match by 49 runs. For Mumbai Indians Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, James Pattinson, and Rahul Chahar all took 2 wickets each.
All the major stats and facts from the fifth match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians in Abu Dhabi :
1 - This is Mumbai Indians' first win in seven matches in the Indian Premier League on UAE soil.
20 - Mumbai Indians became the first-ever team to win 20 matches against a single team in IPL.
Most Wins against an opponent in IPL -
20 - MI vs KKR
17 - KKR vs KXIP
17 - MI vs CSK
16 - MI vs RCB
15 - CSK vs DC
15 - CSK vs RCB
38 - Number of fifty-plus scores Rohit Sharma has made in IPL - the fourth-most by any batsman.
Most Fifty-plus scores in IPL -
48 - David Warner
41 - Virat Kohli
39 - Suresh Raina
38 - Rohit Sharma
37 - AB de Villiers / Shikhar Dhawan
200 - Rohit Sharma became the fourth batsman to hit 200 or more sixes in the Indian Premier League.
Most Sixes in IPL -
326 - Chris Gayle
214 - AB de Villiers
212 - MS Dhoni
200 - Rohit Sharma
194 - Suresh Raina
904 - Runs Rohit Sharma has scored against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL - the most by any batsman and he is also the first batsman to score more than 900 IPL runs against an opponent.
Most Runs against KKR in IPL -
904 - Rohit Sharma
829 - David Warner
818 - Suresh Raina
674 - Virat Kohli
656 - Shikhar Dhawan
Most Runs against an opponent in IPL -
904 - Rohit Sharma vs KKR
829 - David Warner vs KKR
825 - Virat Kohli vs DC
819 - David Warner vs KXIP
818 - Suresh Raina vs MI
818 - Suresh Raina vs KKR
2013 - For the first time Kolkata Knight Riders have lost their opening match of an IPL season since 2013.
KKR in the opening match of an IPL season since 2013 -
2013 - Won vs DC
2014 - Won vs MI
2015 - Won vs MI
2016 - Won vs DC
2017 - Won vs GL
2018 - Won vs RCB
2019 - Won vs SRH
2020 - Lost vs MI
