Mumbai Indians defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi and registered their sixth win of the tournament while Kolkata Knight Riders suffered their fourth loss.
Earlier Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opted to bat first. The poor form of Knight Riders' top order continued and the likes of Rahul Tripathi, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik, and Andre Russell got out without doing anything and at 61/5 they were in deep trouble.
New captain Eoin Morgan and Pat Cummins rebuilt the innings and their unbeaten 87* runs partnership helped Kolkata to finish on 148/5 in 20 overs. Pat Cummins played a good knock of 53* runs while Morgan scored 39* runs.
In reply, Quinton de Kock and Rohit Sharma gave a flying start and the wicket-keeper batsman kept smashing all Knight Riders bowlers and these two took the score to over 90 runs in 10 overs. Rohit Sharma got out for 35 runs while Suryakumar Yadav helped with 10 runs. At the other end, De Kock was rock solid and his 78* runs off 44 balls knock took his team home in the 17th over.
All the major stats and facts from the 32nd match between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders in Abu Dhabi :
5 - This is Mumbai Indians' fifth consecutive win in this season of Indian Premier League.
Mumbai Indians last 5 Matches -
Won vs KKR
Won vs DC
Won vs RR
Won vs SRH
Won vs KXIP
21 - Mumbai Indians have now won 21 out of the 27 matches they played against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.
50 - Trent Boult has completed 50 wickets in the Indian Premier League. Rahul Tripathi was his 50th IPL wicket.
53* - Pat Cummins scored his first-ever fifty in T20 cricket and this 53* is his highest score in this format. The previous highest was 39.
78* - Runs score is the second-highest score for Quinton de Kock in the Indian Premier League.
Highest scores for Quinton de Kock in IPL -
108 vs RCB at Bangalore, 2016
81 vs RR at Mumbai, 2019
78* vs KKR at Abu Dhabi, 2020
83 - Andre Russell has scored only 83 runs at 11.9 in 7 innings of this IPL season with the highest score of 24.
125 - Pat Cummins' bowling average in this IPL. He has taken only 2 wickets at this average in 8 matches of this season.
