After Kolkata Knight Riders chose to bowl, Shakib Al Hasan struck on his return from international duty, dismissing Parthiv Patel in the fifth over BCCI
Lendl Simmons was next to go. Right after hitting Morne Morkel for a six, he scooped one straight to third man, leaving Mumbai on 42 for 2 PTI
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Shakib struck again, in the seventh over, to limit Ambati Rayudu's stay at the crease to three balls BCCI
Rohit Sharma and Kieron Pollard got together for a 32-run fourth-wicket stand which ended when Sunil Narine castled the Mumbai captain for 30 BCCI
Pollard struggled to find his timing and played an uncharacteristic innings BCCI
But the 21-year old Hardik Pandya smashed an unbeaten 61 off 31 balls, only his second T20 fifty, during the course of a 92-run stand for the fifth wicket that propelled Mumbai to 171 for 4 BCCI
Knight Riders' chase got off to a rousing start with Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa putting on 45 for the opening stand BCCI
But Knight Riders lost Uthappa and Manish Pandey in the sixth over, leaving them on 46 for 2 BCCI
Gambhir struck some glorious boundaries before he was bowled by J Suchith off the last ball of the 11th over BCCI
Mumbai's bowlers removed Shakib and the dangerous Andre Russell in a space of ten balls, leaving Knight Riders with 44 to get from 25 balls PTI
But Yusuf Pathan's late surge threatened to pull the game back in Knight Rider's favour, leaving them with 12 to get off the final over BCCI
Then Pollard dismissed Pathan off the first ball, after he had made 52 from 37, and conceded only six runs to hand Mumbai a five-run win BCCI
