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MI vs KKR 65th Match IPL 2026 Highlight: In IPL 2026, the 65th match was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians at the historic ground Eden Gardens. In this match, KKR has strengthened its claim in the playoffs this season by defeating Mumbai by 4 wickets. Earlier, KKR captain Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and decided to bowl. Kolkata bowlers proved the captain’s decision right and restricted Mumbai Indians to 147 runs in 20 overs.

Kolkata achieved the score given by Mumbai at the loss of 6 wickets with 7 balls remaining. While chasing runs, the highest innings of 45 runs for KKR was played by Manish Pandey. He scored these runs facing 33 balls with the help of 6 fours. At the same time, Rovman Powell scored 40 runs in 30 balls with the help of 4 fours and 2 sixes. Initially, captain Ajinkya Rahane returned to the pavilion after playing a short innings of 21 runs.

At the end Rinku Singh 9 So Anukul Roy remained unbeaten after scoring 4 runs. On the other hand, Corbin Bosch took maximum 3 wickets for Mumbai Indians. Whereas, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah and M Ghazanfar got 1 wicket each.

Strong bowling of KKR

At Eden Gardens, KKR bowlers maintained pressure on Mumbai Indians batsmen from the very beginning. This was the reason why MI could not even cross the 150-run mark against KKR. Cameron Green, Saurabh Dubey and Karthik Tyagi took 2-2 wickets for Kolkata. Cameron Green made Ryan Rickleton, Naman Dheer and Saurabh Dubey his victims. Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav were his victims.

At the same time, Karthik Tyagi took the wickets of Tilak Verma and Deepak Chahar. Apart from this, spin bowler Sunil Narine made Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya his victim by spending only 13 runs in 4 overs.

Batsmen disappointed MI

Mumbai Indians’ famous batsmen proved to be a flop in front of KKR. For MI, there was only 17 runs partnership for the first wicket between Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton. On this score, Ryan Richlton returned to the pavilion after scoring just 6 runs. After this, Rohit Sharma was out on 15 and Naman Dheer was out without opening the account.

Whereas Suryakumar Yadav is 15 Tilak Verma Was out after scoring 20 runs. Captain Hardik Pandya played an inning of 26 runs. Whereas, Will Jacques scored 14 and in the end Corbyn Boss remained unbeaten scoring 32 runs for MI. Overall, no half-century innings was seen from any batsman in the match.