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IPL: Mubai Indians score 172 for 5 against Kolkata Knight Riders

IPL: Mubai Indians score 172 for 5 against Kolkata Knight Riders

| | 13 May 2017, 10:40 pm
Kolkata, May 13 (IBNS): A flamboyant knock of 63 of 36 deliveries by Ambati Rayadu and his 61 run partnership with Saurav Tiwari (52 off 43 balls) guided Mumbai Indians to score 172 runs for the loss of five wickets in their innings against Kolkata Knight Riders in their last league match at Eden Gardens here Saturday night.

Earlier KKR skipper Gautam Gambhir called correctly and decided to field as  the match  started 30 minutes late because of a smart shower in the evening.

Coming to bat after the fall of 2nd wicket , Rayadu  played a steller knock to keep Mumbai’s hope for a top finish in the round robin league  and hit all around the wickets punishing both the KKR spinners and  paceman alike.

Rayadu, who came to bat with their total reading 69, was finally out as he failed to read correctly a Kuldip Yadav delivery and was stumped by Uthappa at their team total of 168.

He delighted the packed Eden stadium with six fours and three over bounderies.
 
Needing a win to keep their hope for a direct entry into the play off  for the 10th  Indian Prenier League cricket , Kolkata Knight Rider (KKR) started promisingly and struck an early blow when  opener Lendl Simmons  failed to connect their paceman T  A Boult  and was caught by Sunil Narine at mid off  after scoring  14  in the third over .

The departure of Simmons saw  Saurav Tiwari  joining Rohit Sharma  and the duo  batted judiciously  and kept the score board moving hitting KKR bowlers comfortably to take the total to 69  before Mumbai Indians skipper   Rohit Sharma fell to the guile of  Ankit Rajpoot  scoring 27 off 21 deliveries. He hit  four fours and a sixer. Tiwari   was   unlucky to be run out after scoring 52 with nine fours .

None of the KKR bowlers  could  impress much  , mediumpacer T A Boult who opened home side’s attack bagged a couple of wickets concedinbg 30 runs off  four overs.  
 

Image: IPL Twitter page

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