Kolkata Knight Riders started their campaign in IPL 2020 with a defeat. Mumbai Indians beat KKR by 49 runs. Consecutive victories of Mumbai Indians put Rohit Sharma lead brigade top of the table.

After winning the toss KKR captain Dinesh Kartik sent MI to bat first and MI grab the opportunity with two hands. Rohit Sharma’s innings of 80 runs set the stage for MI. After quick depart of de Kock (1), Suryakumar Yadav holds the innings with Rohit. He added 47 crucial runs. But unfortunately, he got run out. At the end of MI innings Hardik Pandya added 18 runs. MI set the target of 196 for KKR.

The most valuable player of the auction Pat Cummins failed to impress. Youngster Shivam Mavi took 2 wickets.

In the response of Mumbai’s innings non of KKR top-order batsmen got runs. Shubman Gill (7), Sunil Narine (9), Nitesh Rana (24), Eion Morgan (16), Andre Russell (11) everyone failed with the bat. Skipper Kartik (30) tried but did not manage to do more. At the end of the innings Pat Cummins (33) played a cameo inning but that was of no use. After 20 overs score of KKR was 146/9.