Mumbai, After the excellent batting of Venkatesh Iyer (70), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Mumbai Indians by 24 runs in a low-scoring Indian Premier League (IPL 2024) T20 match here on Friday due to the excellent performance of the bowlers.

With good bowling led by Nuwan Thushara (3/42) and Jasprit Bumrah (3/18), Mumbai restricted KKR's innings to 169 runs in 19.5 overs, but chasing the target, the team was out for 145 runs in 18.5 overs. happened.

For KKR, Mitchell Starc took four wickets while Varun Chakraborty, Sunil Narine and Andre Russell took two wickets each. Narayan and Chakraborty proved to be quite economical, both gave equal 22 runs in their quota of four overs each and put pressure on Mumbai in the middle overs. Starc took three wickets in the 19th over, giving KKR its seventh win in 10 matches and taking the team closer to the playoffs.

Mumbai Indians are on the verge of being out of the playoff race after their eighth defeat in 11 matches. For Mumbai, Suryakumar Yadav scored 56 runs in 35 balls with the help of six fours and two sixes and made a partnership of 49 runs in 26 balls with Tim David (24) for the seventh wicket. Apart from these two, no other batsman from Mumbai could leave any impact.