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Kolkata Knight Riders’ commendable bowling effort, followed by Manish Pandey and Rovman Powell’s utile knocks, helped the three-time champion station a four-wicket triumph implicit Mumbai Indians successful an IPL 2026 lucifer astatine the Eden Gardens connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026). The triumph helped KKR enactment live successful the contention for a playoff berth.
After Ajinkya Rahane chose to field, Cameron Green, Saurabh Dubey, and Kartik Tyagi took 2 wickets each portion Sunil Narine stemmed the tally travel arsenic KKR’s disciplined bowling restricted MI to 147 for eight. The location squad achieved the people with 7 balls to spare.
KKR bowlers delivered their champion PowerPlay (46 for four) of the season. Green struck doubly successful his archetypal over, removing Ryan Rickelton to a good Pandey drawback and having Naman Dhir caught behind. Left-arm seamer Saurabh past dismissed Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav successful consecutive overs. Rohit’s mistimed changeable was spectacularly caught by Green aft a 33-yard tally from mid-on portion Suryakumar dragged 1 onto his stumps.
Following an hour-long rainfall interruption, KKR spinners took control. The crafty Narine dished retired his variety, portion Varun Chakaravarthy, nursing a ft injury, bowled tidily.
Tilak Varma survived connected 12 erstwhile Varun dropped a instrumentality catch. The left-hander fell soon after, pulling Tyagi to backward square-leg.
Narine bowled Hardik Pandya earlier Corbin Bosch’s unbeaten 32 successful the decease overs lent respectability to MI’s total.
In reply, KKR mislaid Finn Allen successful the archetypal implicit earlier Rahane and Pandey added 38 runs. But, Bosch executed his plans good to relationship for Rahane and Green successful successive overs.
Batting for the archetypal clip successful the play successful his 5th outing, Pandey (45), applied himself connected a tricky aboveground and batted sensibly.
The 36-year-old collected boundaries done consecutive hits and square-cuts, and forged a captious 64-run basal with Powell, who picked his areas to play the large hits.
The autumn of Pandey and Powell successful successive overs enactment KKR successful a spot of fuss earlier Rinku Singh hung connected to guarantee the host’s triumph past midnight.
