MI vs KKR: Mumbai Indians smash Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets for fifth consecutive win | Cricket news

ABU DHABI: The Mumbai Indians Juggernaut continued unabated as they recorded their fifth straight victory with an eight wicket hit from Kolkata Knight Riders at the IPL on Friday.
An orderly bowling effort by the Mumbai Indians ensured KKR was capped at 148 for five after an undefeated 53 by spearhead Pat cummins.
Then the defending champs rode in a 78 * 44-ball Quinton de Kock, to chase the target with 3.1 overs to spare.
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De Kock, who scored nine fours and three sixes and pattern Rohit sharma (35 of 36 balls), laid the groundwork for emphatic victory with his 94-run first wicket stand.
The two starters led the KKR’s attack on the cleaners, with De Kock being the most aggressive. The South African scored his fifty on just 25 balls, with a square leg max.
It rained limits for Mumbai as the two dominated KKR’s bowling attack.

Pacer Prasidh Krishna (0/30) faced his worst, conceding three fours in the third over and de Kock kept hitting Cummins (0/28) for two successive fours, both pull shots, in the next.
De Kock kept shooting shots throughout the park and was again brutal on Prasidh, who hit two fours and six, on lap seven, which brought Mumbai 16 runs.
KKR tried to turn things back by eliminating Rohit and Suryakumar Yadav (10) in quick succession, but De Kock enthusiastically continued his attack and took the team home in the company of Hardik Pandya (21 * on 11 balls), who played a small cameo.

Earlier, after a higher order failure, it was Cummins (53 * 36-ball 5×4; 2×6) and new pattern Eoin Morgan (39 non-29-ball; 2×4; 2×6), which conjured 87 runs for the sixth straight wicket, to get KKR out of trouble after they staggered at 61 for five in the eleventh again.
By opting to hit, Kolkata lost starter Rahul Tripathi (7) early, courtesy of a sensational catch by Suryakumar Yadav on point, in the third off Trent Boult (1/32).
He became 33 for two when Nitish Rana (5) perished cheaply after de Kock caught him off Nathan Coulter-Nile (1/51) when a short ball worked for the Australian pacemaker in the sixth over.
Legs player Rahul Chahar (2/18) struck twice in the eighth over, removing young Shubham Gill (21) and Dinesh Karthik (4) from successive balls and reducing Kolkata to 42 for four.
While Gill holed Kieron Pollard for the long haul in an attempt to pick up the pace of the race, Karthik played on the stumps at Sheikh Zayed Stadium.
KKR lost half their team by 61 while Andre Russell perished by 12. A Jasprit Bumrah goalkeeper (1/22) did the trick when Russell threw a babysitter at De Kock.
Cummins crushed Nathan Coulter-Nile by two fours and a maximum in 13th, who earned KKR 16 runs and then made optimal use of a life that he did get.
Cummins and Morgan added 53 in the final five overs, and were particularly brutal against Coulter-Nile, who leaked 51 runs in his four overs.