Kolkata beats Kings XI 8th straight time to leads IPL

Umesh Yadav (4-33) took three wickets in the space of four deliveries late in the Kings XI knock as a promising start was checked to leave the hosts a chaseable target. We were hoping Rana and Hardik would finish it off and they did.

Gambhir and Natine have got KKR off to a rollicking start here.

Big-hitting batsman Chris Lynn’s shoulder injury may not be as bad as first feared and he could yet still feature in the current IPL season.

With these two teams locking horns against each other, it will be interesting to see which one has a upper hand over the other in today’s match between the two teams.

Mumbai finally broke through with a double wicket over from Krunal Pandya, and that is where Mumbai clawed back in the game. The Knight Riders would surely have preferred a slow turner, but were aware of the change in nature of the wicket. Once Lynn went, the scoring rate dropped alarmingly. They ran four and Boult was left mouthing expletives as he walked off, conceding 36 off his four overs.

Kolkata Knight Riders opener Chris Lynn appears increasingly likely to miss the remainder of the IPL after he hurt his shoulder while fielding against Mumbai Indians.

Warner faced 45 balls, hitting six fours and finished off the run-chase with his fourth six. The legendary South African Kallis, however, chose not to give a time frame of Lynn’s return and said they do not want to rush the Aussie batsman, who had undergone a surgery on the same shoulder in 2014. MI’s wheels came off in the final over and Pandey collected 23 of a clearly rattled McClenaghan. Followed by Parthiv, Buttler also back to the pavilion with 28 runs in 22 balls with two sixes.

It was as if he had never been away as he picked up four wickets for 33 runs, and narrowly missed out on a hat-trick.

The seventh match of IPL 2017 has started with the batting of KKR, while the MI Skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and chose to bowl first. “I am happy that I played one big innings but there is a long way to go”, Samson old. Instead, Rana caught Gambhir and his team by surprise after they had done most of the hard work for a win, creating some uncertainty over whether Knight Riders can shut out oppositions in close matches. He got out the next ball, but by then had brought the equation down to 19 off nine. Pandey gracefully faced the next ball, threw the ball quite out of the boundaries making it a fine straight six, where two balls granted 18 runs.

This is significant given Pandya’s poor run in IPL over the past two years.