Mumbai Indians (MI) opened their account of victory by defeating defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by eight wickets. This is their first win in the current tournament after losing two consecutive matches. At the same time, KKR has lost for the second time in three matches. After the end of the match on Saturday, KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane talked about the defeat in this match. He blamed the batting order for this.

Statement of KKR captain

Captain Rahane said - Collectively the batsmen failed. It was a good wicket for batting and 180-190 runs should have been scored on it. Sometimes when you are facing bounce, you have to use it. We have to learn fast. The bowlers tried a lot but we could not score runs. Our wickets kept falling. It is difficult to make a comeback after losing four wickets in the powerplay.

Kolkata's batting order fell apart like a pack of cards.

Based on Ashwini Kumar's lethal bowling, Mumbai Indians restricted Kolkata Knight Riders to a score of 116 runs. This is the lowest score of this season. KKR was all out for less than 120 runs for the 10th time in IPL. Kolkata's batsmen performed poorly. The team lost four wickets for a score of 41 in the powerplay itself. Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored the highest 26 runs for them. Apart from this, captain Ajinkya Rahane scored 11, Rinku Singh scored 17, Manish Pandey scored 19 and Ramandeep Singh scored 22 runs. At the same time, five batsmen could not even touch the double-digit mark. For Mumbai, Deepak Chahar took two wickets while Trent Boult, Hardik Pandya, Vignesh Puthur, and Mitchell Santner got one wicket each.

Mumbai made this record.

This is Mumbai's 24th win over KKR in IPL. At the same time, Mumbai defeated Kolkata for the 10th time at the Wankhede Stadium. Mumbai has made a big upset in the points table by winning with 43 balls remaining. With two points and a net run rate of 0.309, Mumbai reached the sixth position while KKR slipped to the 10th position. They do have two points in their account but KKR's net run rate has become -1.428. RCB is currently at the top of the points table of IPL 2025, which has won four points with victory in both its matches. Their net run rate is also +2.266.

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