Needing 31 to win off 31 balls, Kolkata Knight Riders ended up losing yet another game to the Mumbai Indians by 10 runs. As good as the MI...
Needing 31 to win off 31 balls, Kolkata Knight Riders ended up losing yet another game to the Mumbai Indians by 10 runs. As good as the MI bowlers were at the death, one can’t help but feel that KKR shot themselves in the foot with poor shot selection, lost their match awareness and the game in a truly bizarre display of batting.
Fathom this: after 14.5 overs, KKR were cruising at 122/3. MI had managed to get a few wickets courtesy of the leg-spin of Rahul Chahar but Eoin Morgan’s team were, everyone assumed, in complete control. Then, this happened:
W 0 W 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 N 4 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 W W 2 0
31 balls, 4 wickets, 12 dot balls, 13 singles, 1 two, 1 four (and two dropped catches too).
Krunal Pandya was brilliant (he finished with match figures of 4-0-13-1). Jasprit Bumrah was, as usual, on the mark too as was Trent Boult.
But KKR’s batsmen were guilty of handing the victory to MI by choosing to go for the big shots when they could have very well got the win in singles. And this wasn’t just any batsmen...
