Sandeep Sarkar, Kolkata: As the crowd poured into the Eden Gardens after a downpour on Wednesday afternoon, most were wearing just one jersey. The number ’45’ flashes on the back of the jersey. With the name, ‘Rohit’.

Eden Gardens is the final field. World record in one day cricket at this ground. Century in IPL. Ranji TrophyTerrible record. Rohit ‘Hitman’ Sharma’s support at Eden was split on Wednesday. Some people want Kolkata Knight Riders win The other team’s prayer was that, whatever the result, Rohit storms with the bat.

Rohit failed to open the innings. He started by hitting a pair of sixes. But Sourav caught Duber’s ball and returned. Cameron Greene took a quick catch at mid-on. Ever since Rohit’s return with 15 runs off 13 balls, only ‘KKR, KKR’ roared across Eden.

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KKR had to beat Mumbai Indians to keep any hope of making it to the IPL playoffs. Ajinkya Rahane won the toss and sent Mumbai Indians to bat first. Mumbai Indians were stuck at 147/8 in the rain-hit first innings. Mumbai Indians were 105/7 at one point. Mumbai scored 52 runs in the last 4 overs. Corbin Bosque scored an unbeaten 32 off 18 balls. Durant bowled fast Sunil Narain. One wicket for just 13 runs in 4 overs. 2 wickets each for Cameron Green, Sourav Dubey and Karthik Tyagi.

KKR achieved the target by losing 6 wickets with 7 balls remaining. Tejaswi Singh Dahiya made his IPL debut as a concussion after Angakrish Raghuvanshi suffered a head injury while catching. Instead of Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey played an innings of 45 runs from 33 balls. KKR won the 2014 final with his bat. Rovman Powell made 40 off 30 balls.

this time IPLMumbai Indians beat KKR in their first meeting. KKR took revenge by defeating Mumbai at home. By winning this match, KKR stayed in the race for the playoffs. KKR has 13 points in 13 matches. But the way he batted slowly at the end KKRin the end, if the run rate is judged, it will be too late to spend up to 18.5 overs to get 148.