Kolkata Knight Riders captain Nitish Rana and Mumbai Indians bowler Hrithik Shokeen clashed with each other at the Wankhede Stadium, this incident was seen on Sunday (April 16).
Mumbai won the toss and decided to bowl first. Hrithik Shokeen got very excited after dismissing Nitish Rana, after that the matter progressed.
Hrithik dismissed Nitish Rana on the first ball of the ninth over, substitute player Ramandeep Singh took his catch. After getting dismissed, Hrithik showed the finger to the captain of Kolkata to go towards the pavilion, Nitish got angry on this.
He was on his way to Hrithik when Mumbai’s acting captain Suryakumar Yadav stopped him. Suryakumar pacified the matter by intervening. Seeing the progress of the matter, the umpires had also reached there.
Batting first, Kolkata Knight Riders set a target of 186 runs in front of Mumbai Indians. Venkatesh Iyer scored the maximum 104 runs for Kolkata. At the same time, in the end, Andre Russell scored an unbeaten 21 runs in 11 balls. Hrithik Shokeen took two wickets for Mumbai. At the same time, except Arjun, all other bowlers got one wicket each.
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Nitish Rana played an inning of 75 runs in the last match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. His bat did not work against Mumbai. He could score only five runs in 10 balls. No one batted well in the Kolkata team except Venkatesh and Andre Russell.
Rinku Singh scored 18 runs off 18 balls. Shardul Thakur contributed 13 runs off 11 balls. Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored eight and Sunil Narine scored two unbeaten runs. N Jagadishan could not open the account.