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Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders have won the 65th match of IPL 2026. KKR defeated Mumbai by 4 wickets on their home ground. With this victory, KKR team remains in the race for the playoffs. Playing first, Mumbai team scored 147 runs for 8 wickets. In reply, KKR won the match by losing 6 wickets in the 19th over.

KKR has 13 points with 6 wins in 13 matches. The team is at sixth position in the points table.
The team did not get a single win in its first 6 matches. In this, one match was canceled due to rain.

Kolkata Knight Riders have won 6 in the last 7 matches.
Mumbai Indians have only 8 points after 13 matches and the team is at number 9.

Mumbai Indians lost four wickets in the power play itself.
Playing first after losing the toss, Mumbai Indians got the first blow in the form of Ryan Rickelton on the third ball of the third over on the score of just 17. Rickelton returned to the pavilion after scoring 6 runs. Naman Dhir (0) was also out on the last ball of the third over. MI also lost the wickets of Rohit Sharma (15) and Suryakumar Yadav (15) till the score of 41. Mumbai Indians had scored 57 runs losing 4 wickets in 8 overs, after which the game was stopped due to rain. When the match resumed, no reduction in overs was made.

Hardik Pandya along with Tilak Verma made a partnership of 43 runs in 49 balls for the fifth wicket, taking the team to the score of 84. Tilak was out after scoring 20 runs in 32 balls, while captain Hardik Pandya contributed 26 runs to the team’s account. Corbin Bosch remained unbeaten on 32 runs in 18 balls with 2 sixes and 3 fours. Saurabh Dubey, Cameron Green and Karthik Tyagi took 2 wickets each. Sunil Narine got 1 wicket.

KKR batted intelligently
KKR had a bad start. Deepak Chahar dismissed Finn Allen in the very first over. Manish Pandey, who came at number three, batted carefully with captain Ajinkya Rahane. The partnership between the two was only 38 runs in 28 balls. After scoring 21 runs, Rahane became the victim of Corbin Bosch in the last over of the powerplay. Cameron Green could not do anything special and could only score 4 runs on 8 balls. KKR had lost three wickets for 54 runs in the 8th over.

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Manish Pandey got the support of Rovman Powell. Powell got two lives and taking advantage of this, both of them made a half-century partnership. KKR team also crossed 100 during this period. Manish Pandey was moving towards fifty but Jasprit Bumrah bowled him. Pandey scored 45 runs with the help of 6 fours in 33 balls. Rovman Powell scored 40 runs in 30 balls before being dismissed by Allah Ghazanfar.

Tejasvi Dahiya, who came as a concussion substitute in place of Angkrish Raghuvanshi, played an inning of 11 runs in 12 balls. Rinku Singh finished the match by hitting a four in the 19th over. Corbin Bosch took maximum three wickets.