Before Thursday’s match, the Kolkata Knight Riders had won only 6 of 28 matches played against the Mumbai Indians. MI has traditionally been KKR’s bogey team. However, the way the KKR players played on Thursday, with complete freedom and confidence showed that they had not allowed thoughts of previous losses to cloud their strategies.
An emphatic 7 wicket win saw KKR jump to fourth spot on the points table.
KKR’s new find Venkatesh Iyer played another great knock and notched up his maiden IPL fifty.
Here’s a look at who said what after the KKR vs MI match in Abu Dhabi on Thursday: