Indian Premier League 2020, Kings XI Punjab vs Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Kieron Pollard, Hardik Pandya, Bowlers All Shine As MI Dominate KXIP | Cricket Information

Rohit Sharma’s 70 off 45 balls that noticed him go past 5000 runs in Indian Premier League (IPL) and a final-overs onslaught by Kieron Pollard (47 off 20) and Hardik Pandya (30 off 11) helped Mumbai Indians will get again to profitable methods by beating Kings XI Punjab by 48 runs in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. 104 runs had been scored within the final six overs by Mumbai, who had been put in to bat by KXIP skipper KL Rahul. These included a 25-run 20^th over bowled by Krishnappa Gowtham – he was taken for 4 sixes, three by Pollard and one by Pandya. Within the penultimate over, Mohammed Shami was hit for 4 fours and Jimmy Neesham went for 57 in his 4 overs together with 40 in his final two.

Consequently, Mumbai posted an above-par 191/four and helped by their all-round bowling assault restricted Kings XI to 143/eight.

On a day their high two scorers KL Rahul (17 off 19) and Mayank Agarwal (25 off 18) did not hearth, Kings XI had their center order uncovered to Mumbai’s top-quality assault and so they got here aside relatively spectacularly.

Karun Nair (zero), Glenn Maxwell (11), James Neesham (7) and Sarfaraz Khan (7) all failed and though Nicholas Pooran accelerated throughout his 44 off 27, he was dismissed by James Pattinson within the 14^th over to mark the start of the top for Kings XI.

Since Pooran’s wicket, KXIP misplaced 5 for 42 as Mumbai choked their opponents within the part they’d accelerated of their innings.

On the finish of 16 overs, Mumbai had been 124/three when Rohit was dismissed. Nevertheless, the Kings XI’s lack of expertise within the dying confirmed with Neesham and Gowtham leaking runs.

KXIP leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi went wicket-less even because the ploy of taking part in Gowtham protecting in thoughts the left-handers within the Mumbai line-up didn’t pay dividends.

Sheldon Cottrell was the choose of the bowlers for KXP, returning 1/20 from 4 overs. Shami and Gowtham bought a wicket every.

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For Mumbai, Pattinson, Jasprit Bumrah and Rahul Chahar bought two wickets every whereas Krunal Pandya and Trent Boult bought one wicket apiece.

With this win, Mumbai went atop the factors desk with 4 factors from 4 matches whereas Kings XI are positioned sixth with two factors.