Fuming Russell Leaves Field After Mix-Up Leads to Run-Out

At the Wankhede Stadium on Friday, during the Kolkata Knight Riders' IPL 2024 encounter against the Mumbai Indians, Venkatesh Iyer was in the center of attention. Even though some of KKR's batsmen fell for modest scores, he made a valiant half-century as the team scored 169. Quickly following the Power-play, KKR were 57/5. However, Venkatesh Iyer struck 70 off 52 balls with a masterful, controlled knock, establishing an 83-run partnership with Manish Pandey (42).

Nonetheless, he had a devastating mistake themselves also. It occurred in the last ball of the 17thth over, with Andre Russell taking the other end. Venkatesh Iyer swiveled in reverse and Pandey's ball hit Short Third Man. The previous ball was already over by the time Russell unexpectedly started running while Iyer took his stance 3-4 metres from the crease. When he saw that he was sending Russell in his direction, Iyer threw him back but it was too se,t by then. Hardik Pandya, the excellent fielder, made a swift catch of the ball and hit the wicket behind.

So Iyer's run out sparked some debates on Twitter, discussing whether Iyer was wrong to leaving the padding. KKR had lost five more wickets and up to the 17th over, they were only 153/7. They regrettably conceded some runs but didn't succeeded to score enough in the last 3 overs.

Afterwards Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy, the spinners for KKR, turned the game in their team´s favor by claiming 4-22 each in 4 overs leading to MI assaulted with 61/4.

Mumbai were on a downer with 71/6 soon, before a rescue attempt which included a fighting endeavor by Suryakumar Yadav alongside his partner, Tim David. All about 120. But Russell and Starc with their 5 wickets shared ended Mumbai Indians' attempt of fighting back.

Mitchell Starc bagged three wickets in the 19th over, off successive deliveries he completed with the figures of 4-33. The table toppers Mumbai Indians were dismissed for 145, gifting the spoils to KKR that has won 23 from 32 games before this game.