Kolkata Knight Rider’s Venkatesh Iyer seems to have been the game-changer for the franchise as with his introduction to the playing XI, the team now is on its way to the second consecutive win in the Indian Premier League. Iyer hit his maiden fifty in the IPL against Mumbai Indians in KKR’s ninth IPL 2021 game.
Having scored an unbeaten 41 in the first match against Royal Challengers Bangalore, the Madhya Pradesh player, who made his debut only a match ago, hit his debut fifty in the world’s biggest cricket league against five-times champions Mumbai Indians and against the bowling lineup that has Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Adam Milne and Rahul Chahar.
Iyer started in a fashion that he had left in the last match against the RCB, hitting world number one ODI bowler Trent boult for a six on the very first ball that he faced in the very first over of the KKR chase of 154. From there onwards there was no looking back for the 26-year-old left-hander who went on to complete his fifty in just 25 balls, hitting four fours and three sixes on the way.
In the end, he was dismissed by Bumrah trying to hit one over the bowlers head, missing the ball completely. But by the time he got out, the team’s score read 128 in just the 12th over.