MI vs KKR: 'We just came to know about this...', why did captain Shreyas Iyer say this after thrashing Mumbai?

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Mumbai Indians (MI) by 24 runs in the 51st match of IPL 2024. After the victory in this match, the KKR team has 14 points. KKR defeated Mumbai Indians at Wankhede after 12 years and achieved a spectacular win. Mitchell Starc emerged as the real hero from KKR, who took three wickets in the last over and defeated Mumbai Indians.

KKR captain Shreyas Iyer looked very happy after the victory in this match. Let us know what he said after the victory in the match.

What did Shreyas Iyer say after KKR's third consecutive win?

Kolkata Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer said after the win in the match against Mumbai Indians that he was just talking to Starc and told him how important this match was for us. If we had lost this, we would have had to win two out of four matches.

Currently in talks with Stars. Told them how important this game is for us. If we had lost this one we would have had to win two out of four.

Shreyas Iyer praised these players after the victory

Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Mumbai Indians at Wankhede after 12 years. Regarding this, Iyer said during the post-match presentation that it was a beautiful victory for us. Hopefully, we would have cherished it, but we still had a match a day later, so we couldn't celebrate like that.

While batting, the KKR team lost its 5 wickets at the score of 57 runs. After this, Manish Pandey along with Venkatesh Iyer made a partnership of 169 runs and helped KKR to score 169 runs. Manish Pandey scored 42 runs and Venkatesh scored 70 runs. Regarding this, Iyer said that Pandey had been looking for an opportunity from the very first day and finally he got this opportunity.

During this, the KKR captain also praised Sunil Narine and Varun Chakraborty, who took 4 wickets for 44 runs in 8 overs.

Iyer further said that this effective player (Manish Pandey) rule, has helped us in this game. Manish was looking for an opportunity from day one. Today he got it. We achieved a commendable score. I just had to tell the boys that we could defend it with our bowling lineup.

KKR vs MI: KKR beat Mumbai Indians by 24 runs

Mumbai Indians won the toss and chose bowling against KKR. The Kolkata team, batting first, was all out for 169 runs in 19.5 overs. In response, Mumbai was all out for 145 runs in 18.5 overs and KKR won the match by 24 runs. For KKR, Mitchell Starc took 4 wickets in the match, while Varun Chakraborty, Sunil Narine, and Andre Russell got 2 wickets each.

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