3 Reasons KKR Faces Defeat Against MI: In IPL 2025, a match was played between Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders on Monday (31 March). The venue of this match was MI’s home ground Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, where Hardik’s team was seen playing for the first time this season. Mumbai Indians’ luck opened on the home ground and they also registered their first win of the season. At the same time, Kolkata Knight Riders’ wish to register their second consecutive win in the season remained unfulfilled.

In the match, Kolkata Knight Riders’ batsmen, who came to bat first, had a flop show and one after the other batsmen got out. The situation was such that the team could not even play the full overs and collapsed after scoring 116 runs in the 17th over. In response, Mumbai Indians, thanks to Ryan Rickelton’s half-century, scored 121/2 in 12.5 overs and easily won with 8 wickets remaining. We are going to mention the 3 main reasons for the defeat of Kolkata Knight Riders in this match.

3. Not being able to take wickets quickly with the new ball

KKR had only 116 runs to defend, so it should have tried to take wickets by attacking with the new ball but the team could not do so in the beginning. Kolkata got its first success in the sixth over, by then Ryan Rickelton had added 46 runs with Rohit Sharma. In such a situation, Mumbai had found the way to victory and KKR’s defeat was certain due to its inability to take wickets with the new ball.

2. Irresponsible performance of the middle order

Kolkata Knight Riders suffered setbacks in the beginning itself. In such a situation, the middle order batsmen should have taken responsibility and handled the innings but neither Venkatesh Iyer nor Rinku Singh could stay. Wickets kept falling one by one and as a result the team could not even play the full overs.

1. Openers flopped

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KKR gave a chance to the pair of Quinton de Kock and Sunil Narine against Mumbai Indians but both these players returned to the pavilion in the first two overs. While Narine got out in the first over without opening his account, only 1 run came from de Kock’s bat and he returned to the pavilion in the second over. Due to a bad start, KKR’s innings could not recover. The team had to bear the brunt of this.