Kolkata Knight Riders beat Mumbai Indians by 41 runs in the opening match of IPL 7 on Wednesday.
Kolkata scored 163 for 5 but Mumbai Indians failed to hit the winning score staying at 122 losing 7 wickets.
Kolkata gripped a big win over defending champions Mumbai. The biggest difference was the impact made by the teams' overseas players: Lasith Malinga was the only one who delivered for Mumbai, but for Kolkata Jacques Kallis set up the innings with a 72, Morne Morkel squeezed the chase with a burst of 2-0-2-0 at the start of the innings, and Sunil Narine scalped four as became the quickest bowler to 50 wickets in the tournament, reports ESPN Cricket.
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