After the convincing win over Kolkata Knight Riders, Mumbai Indians will now meet Rising Pune Supergiant in Sunday’s IPL 2017 final.
Mumbai Indians march into their fourth IPL final after a convincing six-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2017 Qualifier 2 in Bangalore on Friday. The two-time champions will now meet 2016 debutants Rising Pune Supergiant in Sunday’s final.
Mumbai rode on all-rounder Krunal Pandya’s unbeaten knock of 45 to register the six-wicket win in the second qualifier at M Chinnaswamy stadium. After opting to field first, Rohit Sharma-led unit was brilliant with the ball as they managed to bowl out the Knight Riders for mere 107 runs.
Karn was introduced in the 5th over and the leggie removed Sunil Nasrine for 10 after he was stumped out off a googly. Parthiv Patel made no mistakes behind the stumps.
Mumbai were dominating the KKR batting line up right from the beginning but it was Karn Sharma who did the job for them in Bangalore. In his very second over of the innings, Karn forced KKR captain Gautam Gambhir to slog him over mid-wicket region when he was playing at 12 but the left-handed batsman only managed to give a catch to Hardik Pandya in the deep.
Jasprit Bumrah, who has been excellent in the death overs, was handed the new ball and the move worked as he got Chris Lynn cheaply. After six overs, Kolkata found themselves on backfoot as they had just 25 runs on the board. Karn Sharma, after Bumrah’s new-ball show, ran through KKR’s batting order.
Here are the Twitter reacts as Mumbai Indians beat KKR by six wickets:
Playoffs deserve better pitches and better turnouts…Chinnaswamy has been quite a let down this #IPL
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) May 19, 2017
One of the top sides in the @ipl @kkr can hold their heads high @mipaltan clinical performance hopefully a cracker of a final comin soon
— yuvraj singh (@YUVSTRONG12) May 19, 2017
Here we come @IPL final 2017 welldone everyone @mipaltan special efforts @Jaspritbumrah93 @sharmakarn03 @KKRiders hardluck tonight.Bless all
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) May 19, 2017
SRK: Shame on you! Such a pathetic performance!
Gambhir: Double shame on you! How dare you say anything after doing Dilwale, Fan & Raees!!!
— Keh Ke Peheno (@coolfunnytshirt) May 19, 2017
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