JOIN USIPL 2021 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians highlights: KKR choke in chase as MI win by 10 runs
Player of the Match
Rahul Chahar wins the Player of the Match award for his spell of 4/27. His spell was instrumental in tunning the fate of the match on its head and help MI win the match.
Rahul Chahar: There was pressure when they started well and a spinner had to pull it back. My strength is to turn it at a good pace. I enjoyed Rahul Tripathi's wicket a lot. I deliberately tried to bowl a flipper to Rana knowing it's my last ball of the spell. Rohit gives me a lot of confidence and the management too is very supportive.
Rohit Sharma, MI Captain: This was a great fightback, and an excellent fightback by each one of them. You don't see a game like this often. Lots of confidence from this game and we move forward. KKR batted brilliantly in the powerplay. Rahul came and got us crucial wickets in the middle. Krunal bowling those overs at the end was vital as well. It was a complete team effort and credit to all the bowlers. As a batsman, you need to carry on. The trend in Chennai is you can't hit from ball one. You have to plan before you go into bat. We were 15-20 runs short. Should have batted well at the fag end. We need to understand how we need to bat at the death but I don't want to take anything away from the boys. Siryakumar has carried his form well. He plays fearless and it's a positive sign for us in the first few overs. We need a guy there to do that. We have done the finishing part well as a team, just that we need to understand the surfaces here and adapt.
Eoin Morgan, KKR captain: "It is disappointing to lose. Played some really good cricket for most parts of the game, we looked comfortable in the chase, but they are a strong team, came back well, and sad that it didn't work out for us. Made a few mistakes, will need to sort it out. A perfect game needs to be bold, it came to cost us in the last 10 overs of the game. It is not being bold enough to finish off the chase. We needed to bat around and complete the chase - not quite sure what happened (speaking if the pitch tended to go slow in the second innings), in the games that have been played so far, barring AB de Villiers in the chase, that seems to be telling a tale of teams struggling in the run-chase. We put ourselves in a good position to win today, but then not to win, that's something we need to take care of."
KKR 142/7 after 20 overs.
Boult to bowl the last over. KKR need 15 runs to win.
19.1Boult to Russell, 1 run, slow short ball wide of off stump, Russell gets an inside edge and the ball goes to the leg side, Russell takes a single.
14 off 5
19.2Boult to Karthik, 1 run, slow bouncer, Karthik plays a reverse hit but the ball rolls to the man at short third as Karthik takes a single
19.3Boult to Russell, WICKET! Slow yoker, Russell closes the face of his bat early and the ball lobs back to Boult who makes no mistake.
Pat Cummins walks out to bat.
19.4Boult to Cummins, WICKET! BOWLED! FULL AND FAST YORKER ON OFF STUMP. Cummins goes for a wild swing but misses and the ball hits the stumps.
Harbhajan Singh walks out to bat.
19.5 Boult to Harbhajan, 2 runs, full ball wide of off stump, Harbhajan lifts the ball over cover for a couple.
19.6Boult to Harbhajan, dot, full ball wide of off stump, Harbhajan cannot connect and the ball goes to the keeper.