In the last qualifier game of the season on Sunday, Mumbai 🌱Indians easily defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 9 wickets with 3.5 overs remaining. With 18 points and a better net run-rate, Mumbai I൲ndians ended up at the top of the IPL Poဣints Table.
It was 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 Sun🐷risers Hyder🗹abad 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 score runs inไ the middle over and ended up with just 133 runs in their 20 overs.
For Mumbai Indians, it was the pace 𓃲attack who did all the damage. Lasith Malinga grabbed 3 wickets whereas Jasprit Bumrah 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 do🤪wn.
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 .
Mumb🎀ai Indians win by 9 wickets and are now the table toppers.
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
SRH becomes the first team to qualify for the play-offs with just 12 Points…
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket)
Cakewalk♒ for Mumbai, party 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 in top two even with 9 wins in an 8-team tournament— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
