MI vs KKR Live Score: After an unacceptable defeat against CSK, MI lock their horns with KKR to play the 34th league match of the IPL 2021. MI needs to win this match in order to change their losing path.
| IPL Match No | 34 |
| Match | Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders |
| Date | September 23, 2021 |
| Toss | Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opt to bowl |
| Venue | Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi |
🚨 Toss Update 🚨@Eoin16 wins the toss & @KKRiders have elected to bowl against @mipaltan. #VIVOIPL #MIvKKR
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IPL 2021 MI vs KKR Scorecard
| Team | Runs |
| Mumbai Indians | 155/6(20) |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 159/3(15.1) |
Mumbai Indians Innings
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | SR |
| Rohit Sharma | c Shubman Gill b Narine | 33 | 30 | 4 | 0 | 110 |
| Quinton de Kock (wk) | c Narine b Prasidh | 55 | 42 | 4 | 3 | 130.95 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | c Karthik b Prasidh | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Ishan Kishan | c Russell b Lockie Ferguson | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 107.69 |
| Kieron Pollard | run out (Morgan/Lockie Ferguson) | 21 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 140 |
| Krunal Pandya | c Venkatesh Iyer b Lockie Ferguson | 12 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 133.33 |
| Saurabh Tiwary | Not out | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 250.00 |
| Adam Milne | Not out | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Kolkata Knight Riders Innings
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | SR |
| Shubman Gill | b Bumrah | 13 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 144.44 |
| Venkatesh Iyer | b Bumrah | 53 | 30 | 4 | 3 | 176.67 |
| Rahul Tripathi | not out | 74 | 42 | 8 | 3 | 176.19 |
| Eoin Morgan (c) | c Boult b Bumrah | 7 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 87.5 |
| Nitish Rana | not out | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 250.0 |
Captains View
Eoin Morgan
We are going to bowl first. It worked in the first game and we are going for the same formula. Not getting complacent and sport has the knack to bite you in the back side. We have kept the same side.
Rohit Sharma
Feeling good. Looking forward to the game. Just one change; Anmol who played so well unfortunately misses out. Not a lot to be honest (on what he spoke about the last game). Certain basics of cricket that was missed, we need to do right. We have spoken about it and hopefully we can execute today. It is a good positive to have but I personally understand that every day is a new day. T20 is a format that you have to be good on that particular day.
Playing XI
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Mumbai Indians |
| Shubman Gill |
Quinton de Kock (wk)
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| Venkatesh Iyer | Rohit Sharma (c) |
| Rahul Tripathi |
Suryakumar Yadav
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| Nitish Rana | Ishan Kishan |
| Eoin Morgan (c) | Saurabh Tiwary |
| Dinesh Karthik (wk) | Kieron Pollard |
| Andre Russell | Krunal Pandya |
| Sunil Narine | Adam Milne |
| Lockie Ferguson | Rahul Chahar |
| Varun Chakravarthy | Jasprit Bumrah |
| Prasidh Krishna | Trent Boult |
Squad
Mumbai Indians
Quinton de Kock (wk), Rohit Sharma (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Saurabh Tiwary, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Adam Milne, Rahul Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Hardik Pandya, Anmolpreet Singh, Piyush Chawla, Dhawal Kulkarni, Aditya Tare, Chris Lynn, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jayant Yadav, Roosh Kalaria, James Neesham, Anukul Roy, Arjun Tendulkar, Marco Jansen, Yudhvir Singh
Kolkata Knight Riders
Eoin Morgan (c), Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy, Prasidh Krishna, Harbhajan Singh, Shakib Al Hasan, Tim Southee, Ben Cutting, Karun Nair, Pawan Negi, Kuldeep Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Sheldon Jackson, Sandeep Warrier, Tim Seifert, Rinku Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Vaibhav Arora
MI vs KKR IPL 2021 Highlights
Mumbai Indians Batting
Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock walk in to lead the Mumbai Indians while Nitish Rana opens the bowling attack.
As expected the duo makes an impressive opening partnership by scoring 78 runs for the first wicket loss. It’s Narine who draws the first blood for MI by dismissing their skipper Rohit Sharma for 33 runs.
Suryakumar Yadav then joins hands with de Kock but the duo fails to withstand the KKR’s bowling attack. SKY walks to the pavilion after scoring just 5 runs soon the long stand batsman de Kock too walks to the pavilion after scoring 55 runs.
MI then struggled to face the KKR’s bowling attack and wind up the innings after scoring 155 runs for 6 wickets loss.
Kolkata Knight Riders batting
Shubman Gill and Venkatesh Iyer get in to lead KKR to chase down the target of 155 runs while Boult opens the bowling attack.
KKR poses an aggressive opening as they hit 15 runs in the very first over. KKR batsmen show no fear to the MI bowlers. Though Bumrah dismissed Gill for 13 runs, R Tripathi joins hands with V Iyer and drags KKR to a comfortable zone in chasing.
Soon, V Iyer registers his maiden IPL Half-century and leads KKR to a better position in chasing. After massive destruction created Bumrah dismissed V Iyer for 53 runs.
Skipper Morgan walks to the pavilion to make the match-winning partnership. But soon dismissed after striking an impressive six in Bumrah’s delivery. As expected the long stand R Tripathi drags KKR to an impressive victory by defeating MI by 7 wickets.
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Player of the Match
Sunil Narine
I’m coming off a good amount of cricket in the CPL and The Hundred. It’s getting better and better. It has takem me a while with this new action and I have put in a lot of work into it. Getting Rohit out in any form of cricket is good; he is a key wicket for Mumbai. Varun is someone who likes to know about the game and he likes to know what will happen. He is a quick learner and he has far to go. I wouldn’t say this pitch was sticky. It was flat but not as flat as last year. My batting depends on what my team requires, if they want to go at the top or at the end, I’ll do it.
