KKR vs MI Highlights and Match Recap, IPL 2019, Full cricket score: Kolkata beat Mumbai by 34 runs despite Hardik's masterclass

KKR’s first T20 match: April 18, 2008

RCB’s first T20 match: April 18, 2008

KKR’s 100th T20 win: April 28, 2019

RCB’s 100th T20 defeat: April 28, 2019

Teams with 100-plus T20 wins:

Mumbai Indians

Chennai Super Kings

Lancashire 

Nottinghamshire

Warwickshire

Kolkata Knight Riders*

After 20 overs,Mumbai Indians 198/7 ( Barinder Sran 3 , Rahul Chahar 1)

Kolkata Knight Riders break the losing strike finally to beat Mumbai Indians by 34 runs after surviving a Hardik Pandya scare. With the win, all teams are still in contention to make it to the playoffs

OUT! Hasn’t been the night for Piyush, but he has some redemption in the form of Krunal’s wicket. Bowls the googly, keeps it wide and Krunal top edges. Chawla has to run back and take the catch to earn his first wicket.

Krunal Pandya c and b Chawla 24(18)

After 19 overs,Mumbai Indians 190/6 ( Krunal Pandya 18 , Barinder Sran 2)

Russell comes on to bowl the penultimate over and makes sure there is no mathematical possibility left for MI going into the final over, provided the bowler bowls six legitimate delivery. One helluva innings though from Hardik that won’t end in a win. KKR to now play for NRR.

Most sixes against KKR in an IPL match:

10 – Shreyas Iyer, Delhi, Delhi, 2018

9 – Chris Gayle, RCB, Bangalore, 2013

9 – HARDIK PANDYA, MI, Kolkata, 2019*

Hardik is no less than Russell! 

So Hardik Pandya is basically Andre Russell without the muscle.#KingsOfSixes

— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) April 28, 2019

OUT! Gurney persists with the slower ball and has the wicket of Hardik Pandya just at the right time. Slower ball banged into the surface. Hardik had to nail it perfectly. He was looking to flat-bat it down the ground but it turns in his hand and fittingly it is Russell who takes the catch at long on. End of one of the most brilliant innings played in the tournamanet.

Hardik Pandya c A Russell b Gurney 91(34)

After 17 overs,Mumbai Indians 174/5 ( Hardik Pandya 81 , Krunal Pandya 14)

Good comeback by Narine after been struck for a four and six off the first two balls. Ends up conceding 14 runs that is five less than the required rate. MI need 59 off 18 balls.

After 16 overs,Mumbai Indians 160/5 ( Hardik Pandya 68 , Krunal Pandya 13)

Piyush Chawla has been taken to the cleaners by Hardik Pandya. He can count himself unlucky here as some miscommunication between Robin Uthappa and Dinesh Karthik leads to a big mess. Krunal Pandya got a top edge that went straight up and was a straightforward chance for the fielding side, but both barge in one another and the ball slips out. Pretty embarrassing. His quicker ball also misses the stumps and DK fails to collect it cleanly and runs for four byes. Another 20 run over. MI need 73 off 24 balls.

After 15 overs,Mumbai Indians 140/5 ( Hardik Pandya 59 , Krunal Pandya 6)

Andre Russell comes back into the attack and delivers a superb over under the circumstances. It is a great fight between two all-rounders from either sides. Both want to win it for their side. Russell displayed his power hitting in the first innings with Pandya also bearing the brunt now the roles have been reversed. Just seven runs from the over as the equation is now 93 needed off 30 balls.

Indian players to score 2,000 runs and take 100 wickets in T20 cricket:

Ravindra Jadeja

HARDIK PANDYA*

Fastest fifties for MI in IPL: (By balls)

17 – Ishan Kishan v KKR, Kolkata, 2018

17 – Kieron Pollard v KKR, Mumbai, 2016

17 – HARDIK PANDYA v KKR, Kolkata, 2019*

It is also the fastest fifty of this IPL.

After 14 overs,Mumbai Indians 133/5 ( Hardik Pandya 57 , Krunal Pandya 1)

Hardik unperturbed by Pollard’s wicket at the other end as he continues to bash the ball around the park, majorly mid wicket region. He is joined by his elder brother and MI now need 100 off 36 balls.

OUT! Sunil Narine returns into the attack and his countryman. Pollard was eyeing the straight boundary, gets it from the inside half of the bat and the fielder at deep mid wicket runs in and dives to grab a good catch.
 

Pollard c Nitish Rana b Narine 20(21)

After 13 overs,Mumbai Indians 121/4 ( Kieron Pollard 20 , Hardik Pandya 46)

Gurney faces Hardik Pandya’s wrath. A  helicopter for ahuge six and a boundary in the over along with three singles. MI need 112 off 42 balls.

After 12 overs,Mumbai Indians 108/4 ( Kieron Pollard 18 , Hardik Pandya 35)

Sixes on either end of the Chawla’s over. Hardik Pandya is turning the game single handedly. He has taken a liking to Chawla and shredding him to bits. MI take 16 runs off the over to go past 100-run mark.