From Praising KL Rahul To Trolling R.Ashwin Here’s How Twitterati Reacted To The Match Last Night

Last night, the match was won by Mumbai Indians beating Kings XI Punjab by 3 runs at the famous Wankhade Stadium of Mumbai.
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Before the match started, Mumbai Indians were invited to bat first as the toss was won by Kings XI Punjab and they chose to bowl first.
The first innings for Mumbai Indians started off with the power packed performance from the opener of Mumbai Indians, Suryakumar Yadav who scored 27 runs off the 15 balls. But soon he was caught out by KL Rahul. Evin Lewis, on the other hand, couldn’t contribute much to the innings, he scored only 9 runs in 7 balls.
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Kieron Pollard gave a thrilling performance and scored 50 runs off 23 balls. Ishan Kishan (20), Krunal Pandya (32), Mitchell McClenaghan (11), stretched the total scores to 186 runs. The rest other players were bundled up by the players after scoring single digits.
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Andrew Tye of Kings XI Punjab, took four big wickets today and gave an amazing performance. He started off with Suryakumar Yadav, then went on to take the wickets of Evin Lewis, Ishan Kishan and Hardik Pandya. The skipper of the KXIP, R.Ashwin took two wickets of Ben Cuttling and Kieron Pollard.
In the second innings, the players of Kings XI Punjab, gave one thrilling performance and turned the tables.
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KL Rahul gave a devastating performance and took away the match by storm. He smashed the bowlers of Mumbai Indians to all the corners of the ground. Although, the match was won by Mumbai Indians it was KL Rahul’s brilliant knock of 94 runs off 60 balls which took everyone’s heart away. He smashed 10 fours and 3 sixes and gave another brilliant performance in the league.
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His Partnership with Finch for 111 runs kept everyone on the edge of their seats. However, the great partnership was broken by the great Jasprit Bumrah. First he took the wicket of A.Finch and then later dismissed KL Rahul. A.Finch scored 446 runs off the 35 balls.
All the other players failed to contribute much to the total and fell short of only 3 runs. Mumbai Indians took the match away from them with a blink of an eye and the major credits goes to the impeccable bowling by Jasprit Bumrah.
Here’s how twitterati reacted to the last night’s match, have a look:

Magnificent innings from KL Rahul. He had been magnificent and feel for him but Kings 11 have simply not been good enough in the crucial phases. Mumbai owe this to Bumrah. Top spell #MIvKXIP
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) May 16, 2018

600+ runs in a season @ 160. Only the third player after Gayle and AB to do so. K L Rahul is undoubtedly the best batsman in this…batting like a dream. #IPL #MIvKXIP
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) May 16, 2018

This season it has to be KLXI rather than @lionsdenkxip. He has carried them all season. #IPL2018 #MIvKXIP
— Archit Agarwal (@ImARCHIT01) May 16, 2018

Best batsman of IPL 2018 #MIvKXIP pic.twitter.com/LzbJunukSL
— Kuldeep singh (@iamkuldeep35) May 16, 2018

Feeling Heartbroken for @klrahul11 ??? #IPL2018 #MIvKXIP
— Mrs. Uttara (@mrssagdeo) May 16, 2018

This man a million dollar cricketer of Indian cricket. @klrahul11 you become my favourite batsman. #MIvKXIP pic.twitter.com/b8KKkhgk5n
— Madhab Das (@dasmadhab) May 16, 2018

If there is a award for stupid captaincy in this tournament, you should give that to Ash for this match ????#MIvKXIP
— Blackpearl (@bharathtweets) May 16, 2018

Pandya and K L Rahul sharing jerseys is the best thing you’ll see today.
#MIvKXIP
— Shubham ? (@lekakhsaab) May 16, 2018

Dropping Yuvi from the team was not enough. Keeping Yuvi in the team, and dropping him down the batting order – what a beautiful move.
— Siddarth Srinivas (@sidhuwrites) May 16, 2018

Sun has yet not set for #MumbaiIndians . There’s still some light at the end of the tunnel. Massive win. Stealing one from jaws of defeat. #IPL2018 #MIvKXIP
— Kandarp (@Kd_Ch) May 16, 2018

This is really heartbreaking ? #MIvKXIP pic.twitter.com/haG25dIxVd
— Shavii Bajaj (@shavi_bajaj) May 16, 2018

Not sure whose decision it was to send Axar ahead of Yuvi. For that insult to Yuvi, dear Punjab, you deserved to lose. Thank you.
— Surendhar MK (@SurendharMK) May 16, 2018

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Someone wants Yuvi. Someone doesn’t. Between Zinta, Viru and Ash. Going by Ash’s attitude every time he has been asked about Yuvi, he surely doesn’t want Yuvi.
— Alagappan Vijayakumar (@IndianMourinho) May 16, 2018

Time to leave this planet, Axar had come ahead of Yuvi… Kidding me? seriously #MIvKXIP
— Rokibuz Zaman (@ROKIBUZZAMAN2) May 16, 2018

Yuvi in Wankhede ?️ reminds me of the glorious night of 2011.
— Prabhu (@Cricprabhu) May 16, 2018

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Woooooohoooooo we won ?????????
Helllllll Goosebumps last over Whooooo @Jaspritbumrah93 @Mitch_Savage truly fantastic ?? @mipaltan #MIvKXIP #MumbaiIndians pic.twitter.com/DJ5yg46ieZ
— Sachin Tendulkar Fan Club?? (@CrickeTendulkar) May 16, 2018

#MIvKXIP
Not trusting the yuvraj was a bad strategy. You can’t demoralize player like him at this stage of match.
YESS… well done MI.
— Sagar Gupta (@sagar_gg) May 16, 2018

I pray to God that @ashwinravi99 shud never make it to India team again n remains unsold nxt ipl for the way he treated Yuvi
— No Political Tweets (@winsttonxavier) May 16, 2018

MI beat KXIP by 3 runs! #IPL2018 #MIvKXIP pic.twitter.com/duNnPwVF7H
— CricFit (@CricFit) May 16, 2018

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Very well played Mumbai .. BUMRAH Rocks .. Deserving Win ..
And What an effort by K L Rahul , Brilliant ..
????#MIvKXIP #KXIPvMI #RjAlok
— RJ ALOK (@OYERJALOK) May 16, 2018

Take a bow ? @klrahul11. You’re up there with the best. Pure class with a tad more consistency. In the league of your own. I see you, the next big thing in Indian cricket. #MIvKXIP
— RedDevil (@RedDevilsays) May 16, 2018