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Chasing a healthy total of 155, Sachin Tendulkar shared two crucial partnerships to ensure they achieved the target with more than an over to spare. S Tiwary made 33 while S Dhawan chipped in with 23.
Earlier, Chris Gayle notched up a stroke-filled 75 in his first IPL match this year to power Kolkata Knight Riders to a competitive 155 for three.
The West Indies skipper slipped into the groove smoothly during his 60-ball knock, that included two sixes and seven fours, besides forging two fruitful half century partnerships.
The left-handed Gayle gave the Knight Riders a flying start of 70 runs with skipper Sourav Ganguly, who made 31 in 34 balls.
After Ganguly’s dismissal, Mumbai Indians bowlers got their act together to apply brakes for a while before Gayle opened up in his inimitable style in the company of Owais Shah (31 in 23 balls) to give the visitors a fighting total.
Kolkata Knight Riders:
Chris Gayle lbw Khan 75
Sourav Ganguly b Harbhajan Singh 31
Owais Shah b Khan 31
Angelo Mathews not out 3
Extras (b 6, lb 3, w 6) 15
Total (for three wickets in 20 overs) 155
Fall of wickets: 1-70 (Ganguly, 10.6 overs), 2-152 (Shah, 19.2), 3-155 (Gayle, 19.6)
Bowling:
Lasith Malinga 4-0-28-0
Zaheer Khan 4-0-27-2
Ryan McLaren 4-0-38-0
Dwayne Bravo 4-0-36-0
Harbhajan Singh 4-0-17-1
Mumbai Indians:
Shikhar Dhawan c Ganguly b Kartik 23
Sachin Tendulkar not out 71
Saurabh Tiwary c Ganguly b Sharma 30
Keiron Pollard lbw Sharma 7
R. Sathish not out 21
Extras (w 4) 4
Total (for three wickets in 18.3 overs) 156
Fall of wickets: 1-61 (Dhawan, 6.5 overs), 2-117 (Tiwary, 13.6), 3-129 (Pollard, 15.5)
Bowling:
Shane Bond 3-0-31-0
Ishant Sharma 4-0-44-2
Chris Gayle 4-0-31-0
Murali Kartik 4-0-21-1
Angelo Mathews 3.3-0-29-0
Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders, who chose to bat
Result: Mumbai Indians won by seven wickets
Umpires: Sanjay Hazare and Simon Taufel (Australia)
TV umpire: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka)
Match referee: Yashpal Sharma
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