Mumbai: Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma has been reprimanded by the match referee for showing dissent during an IPL match against Kolkata Knight Riders here.
"We've just been very flexible with our line-up since we have that left-hand right-hand combination, we can play around with different oppositions", Jayawardene said. "First day with my team training time". Krunal Pandya was fourth man out, dismissed in the thirteenth.
Nitish Rana, who was promoted to number three, kept watching from the other end all this while.
But the asking rate kept climbing so that MI needed 64 in the last five overs.
Rana smacked Kuldeep for a six and a four in successive balls while the big-made Kieron Pollard pulled Rajput from wide of stumps over the mid-wicket to keep the hunt on as MI crossed 100.
Gambhir would have liked it had Rana struck a quick-fire fifty a month ago for Delhi - he was dropped after scores of 5, 5, and 0 - and if he had played more games.
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KKR, however, continues to sweat over Chris Lynn's fitness.
Lions, who also lost their first match by 10 wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders, yet again struggled for wickets as the Australian pair of Warner (76 not out) and Moises Henriques (52 not out) helped the defending champions race to 140-1 in 15.3 overs.
Gambhir also rued the "life" given to Pandya, in the fourth delivery of the ultimate over, when Rishi Dhawan could not get near a top edge from the batsman on the dewy turf. JaspritBumrah then accounted for Lynn, who made 32 from 24 balls.
Mumbai Indians (MI) have traditionally struggled to find form at the start of most IPL seasons and this year they had to face the in-form combo of Rahane-Smith, with the Pune Captain doing the bulk of the damage. Pandey hammered New Zealand's Mitchell McCleneghan for 23 runs in the last over of the innings - which featured two sixes and two fours. KKR, 79-3 at the half-way stage, added 99 in the back half to finish at 178-7.
Krunal Pandya, who had a good day with the ball, played a bit of a cameo, scoring a few runs with Pollard at the other end, but Rajpoot removed both of them, putting Mumbai under enormous pressure.
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