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MI chased its biggest target in IPL, defeated KKR by 6 wickets, Rohit-Rickleton’s bat spoke well

By Samira Vishwas

MI vs KKR Match Highlights IPL 2026: Mumbai Indians have created history in the second match of the Indian Premier League 2026. Actually, in this match, Mumbai has successfully achieved its biggest score in IPL history against Kolkata Knight Riders. If we talk about the match, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and invited Kolkata Knight Riders to bat first. KKR batsmen performed brilliantly and set a target of 221 runs for Mumbai, but the batting of Mumbai Indians was even deadlier than Kolkata. MI achieved the target of 221 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 19.1 overs.

Rohit and Rickleton were the heroes of MI’s victory

The heroes of Mumbai Indians’ victory in this match were openers Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton. There was a big partnership of 148 runs between these two batsmen for the first wicket. At this time Rohit Sharma is hunting KKR bowler Vaibhav Arora. Rohit scored 78 runs with a strike rate of 205. His innings included 6 fours and as many 6 sixes. On the other hand, Ryan Rickleton scored 81 runs in 43 balls. He was run out by Anukul Roy in the 16th over. In fact, it was only because of this half-century innings of these two that Mumbai could chase its highest score in IPL.

Apart from Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickleton, Suryakumar Yadav scored 18 runs. Apart from this, Tilak Verma became the victim of Sunil Narine for 20 runs. Whereas, Hardik Pandya remained unbeaten after scoring 18 runs and Naman Dheer remained unbeaten after scoring 5 runs. Kolkata Knight Riders’ bowling was very poor in this match. Vaibhav Arora, Karthik Tyagi and Sunil Narine got 1 wicket each for KKR.

MI made these two big personal records

With defeat in the second match of IPL 2026, Mumbai Indians made two big records in their name. Mumbai Indians chased the target of 221 runs given by KKR. After this he chased his highest score in IPL history. Apart from this, Mumbai Indians also managed to win their first match in IPL history after almost 14 years.

Ajinkya Rahane also hit fifty

Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders, batting first, scored 220 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. On behalf of the team, captain Ajinkya Rahane played a brilliant inning of 67 runs, while Angkrish Raghuvanshi made an important contribution by scoring 51 runs in 29 balls. Apart from this, Finn Allen scored 37 runs and Rinku Singh returned unbeaten after scoring 33 runs.

Also read: World record registered in the name of Mumbai Indians, became the first franchise team to do so in the cricket world.

Talking about the bowling of Mumbai Indians, Shardul Thakur was the most successful, who took 3 wickets. Captain Hardik Pandya also got 1 success. However, the rest of the bowlers proved to be expensive, of which KKR batsmen took full advantage.

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