Ball by Ball Commentary & Live Score - KKR vs MI, Qualifier 2

11.02pm Handshakes all around. KKR knew they were sub-par today and you have to be at your best against this Mumbai Indians team. Mumbai won the toss and never looked back. If ever there was a wire-to-wire win. The chase began with a stumble, but Rohit and Krunal settled all that to take Mumbai through in what was quite a simple chase in the end. Done with more than five overs to spare. So that sets up Rising Pune Supergiant v Mumbai Indians in the grand finale of IPL 2017.

Since the playoffs started, teams that finished first and second have played in the finals 5 out of 7 seasons, and the team finishing second have won 6 times.

Presentation time.

Karn Sharma is the Man of the Match: "My bowling is come out well, it wasn't great last year but I have worked hard on it. This was an important game for the team as we had to qualify for the final, so I just tried to get wickets for my team and bowl them out quickly. It's a good thing that I am helping out the team."

Rohit Sharma: "We have been really working hard. We don't shy away from going into the finals the hard way. Today was the perfect day. Gives you a lot of confidence, bowlers set the day for us. Taking wickets at regular intervals and keeping the score under control. That's been the hallmark of this team, we're not dependent on one individual. In the top five, we don't have any batsman. Shows a team effort. It's not me, something we have been talking about. I just go and execute what I've been told. I rely on my gut feeling as well. It's very necessary to keep changing. We've not had a great history against (Rising Pune Supergiant). Just one more hurdle."

Gautam Gambhir: "We discussed after the last game that we couldn't get 160-170, we needed 140. Lost too many wickets early on. 107 is not a great score unless you can get the opposition all out. We had to be up for it. Had we had wickets, we could have targetted one or two bowlers. Proud, because we put everything we could. We had two opportunities, we missed it. We could have had two cracks at the top two. The boys were professional through the season."

14.3

Umesh Yadav to Krunal, FOUR runs

dropped and goes to the boundary. Short on off, Krunal backs away and carves the ball to third man. The fielder gets across but can only get a hand on his attempted catch. Too tough to call that an opportunity. Rolls away into the boundary and Mumbai go through to the final

14.2

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Umesh Yadav to Krunal, no run

a low full toss on off, shovelled to midwicket. No feet

1 to win.

14.1

Umesh Yadav to Pollard, 1 run

a yorker on off, dabbed to point for a single.

14.1

Umesh Yadav to Pollard, 1 wide

138 kph, may have been close to a wide for the left-hander. Well down leg

Should be the last over of KKR's season. Umesh will bowl it.

Over14

14 runs

MI 105/4CRR: 7.50 RRR: 0.50

Krunal Pandya 41 (28b 7x4)Kieron Pollard 8 (6b 1x4)

Ankit Rajpoot0/14 (1)

13.6

Rajpoot to Krunal, FOUR runs

Krunal grimaces after hammering a drive. Full and wide outside off, drilled past mid-off for four. Immediately holds his groin, hamstring area. Fantastic area to hit the ball

13.5

Rajpoot to Pollard, 1 run

136 kph, a full toss on middle and leg, Pollard misses plenty of runs. Off the inside edge towards square leg

13.5

Rajpoot to Pollard, 1 wide

an extremely wide slower ball doesn't land on the pitch outside Pollard's reach. Outside off

13.4

Rajpoot to Krunal, 1 run

133 kph, back of a length outside off, carved away towards third man for a run. Great fielding from Umesh, diving away to his right

Kavzy: "How about the team that finishes top goes through to the final and the 2nd and 3rd placed teams play each other to get in the finals. Makes it more competitive and scraps 2 games."

13.3

Rajpoot to Pollard, 1 run

worked down to fine leg.

13.3

Rajpoot to Pollard, 1 wide

drifts way down leg for an extra

13.2

Rajpoot to Pollard, FOUR runs

a naughty error from de Grandhomme. Back of a length on off, pulled down to deep square leg. Almost hits the umpire. But doesn't. And then goes through de Grandhomme's legs too

13.1

Rajpoot to Krunal, 1 run

on the pads, nudged to square leg for one

Goutham: "Fix the variability in the pitches and matches will nicely fall in place. It is very unfair to have pitches decide matches...no amount of planning will work."

Over13

3 runs, 1 wicket

MI 91/4CRR: 7.00 RRR: 2.42

Kieron Pollard 2 (3b)Krunal Pandya 35 (25b 6x4)

Nathan Coulter-Nile1/15 (3)

12.6

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Coulter-Nile to Pollard, no run

back of a length, short and wide. Pollard can't get bat on his attempted cut. An optimistic appeal is correctly shot down

12.5

Coulter-Nile to Pollard, 2 runs

worked away behind square for a couple more. Nicely waited. All too easy

12.4

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Coulter-Nile to Pollard, no run

full and wide, pacey. 141 kph. Left alone by Pollard

Aayush: "If we're talking about changing the way we do the IPL playoffs, how about a round-robin in between the top-4 at neutral venues, and the team ending on top wins the IPL? Obviously, this'll increase the length of the already (really) long IPL, so why not divide the 8 teams into groups of 4, like we have in the championship tournaments?"

12.3

Coulter-Nile to Krunal, 1 run

fullish and wide, carved to the sweeper cover

Nandha: "Chinnaswammy has been a bowlers paradise this season apart from the KKR massacre against RCB... A small ground still batsmen finding it difficult to nail down sixes!!! Hats off to the pitch curator!!! "

12.2

Coulter-Nile to Rohit Sharma, OUT

picks out deep square leg. Back of a length on middle, Rohit runs at Coulter-Nile, who drags that length back. A bouncer. Can't get enough timing or power behind that stroke and picks out deep square leg. Unhappy that he didn't keep it down.

Rohit Sharma c Rajpoot b Coulter-Nile 26 (24b 1x4 1x6 42m) SR: 108.33

12.1

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Coulter-Nile to Rohit Sharma, no run

back of a length outside off, chopped to point

Virag: "I really feel Playoffs dont do justice to IPL , the winner should be based on league performances . That way the most consistent team wins , just like in domestic football leagues." I wouldn't mind seeing a best of three finals. Cut down a game of playoffs. Like the NBA (I know that's seven)

Over12

8 runs

MI 88/3CRR: 7.33 RRR: 2.50

Krunal Pandya 34 (24b 6x4)Rohit Sharma 26 (22b 1x4 1x6)

Sunil Narine0/21 (4)

11.6

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Narine to Krunal, no run

well played. He's got enough from the over so can play him out. Flat on middle and leg, blocked to cover

11.5

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Narine to Krunal, no run

carved towards point from the crease

KKR vs MI, Qualifier 2 at Bengaluru, May 19 2017 - Ball by Ball Commentary