In the last qualifier game of the season on Sunday, Mumbai Indians easily defeated ꦉKolkata Knight Riders by 9 wickets with 3.5 overs remaining. With 18 points and a better net run-rate, Mumbai Indians ended up at the top of the IP🐭Lไ Points Table.
It wa𝓀s a must-win game for KKR in order to qualify for the Playoffs, but they failed to put up a fighting total on the board. This also resulted in Sunrisers Hyderabad to move forward to the🌸 Playoffs.
Earlier, Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first. After a good start, KKR failed to s💜core runs in the middle over and ended up with just 133 runs in their 20 overs.
For Mumbai Indians, it was the pace attack w🍎ho did all the damage. Lasith Malinga grabbed 3 wickets whereas Jasprit Bumra💎h and Hardik Pandya picked 2 wickets each.
It was a pretty comfortable chase for Mumbai⛄ Indians, reaching the target in 16.1 overs with just one wicket down.
They will play against Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings in the ‘Qualifier 1‘ on 7th May at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.
Here is how Twitter reacted to the Mumbai Indians victory:
On 🔝 of the table! 💙
— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan)
That's that from the league stage of the .
Mumbai Indians win by 9 wickets 🎶and are now the 𝓡table toppers.
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
SRH becomes the first team to qualify for the play-offs with just 12 Points…
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket)
Cakewalk for Mumbai, par𓆉ty time for🍷 Hyderabad, lights out early in Kolkata
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
Mumbai Indians finish 🔝
Kolkata Knight Riders' campaign ends with a whimper
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo)
Qualified 🙌
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers)
The firsts in the IPL points table:
-> First edition of IPL where all teams ended up 11+ points
-> SRH became the 1st team to finish in top four without 7 wins
-> DC became the 1st team to not finish iꦗn top two even with 9 wins in an 8-te🌞am tournament— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)