Chennai, April 13 : After a docile start, defending

champions Mumbai Indians, thanks to a five for by

medium pacer Andre Russel in two overs, lost their

way in the middle to be bowled out for 152 runs in

their 20 overs against Kolkata Knight Riders in their

IPL match here tonight.

Asked to bat first, MI lost Quinton De Kock, who came

back into the XI after finishing the quarantine period,

merely, but skipper Rohit Sharma and power hltting by

Surya Kumar Yadav, who scored a half century in 33 balls,

raised the hopes, but the middle order caved in to a

disciplined bowling by the KKR as the holders ended up

losing all the wickets.

In fact MI hass cored 81 runs at the half way stage for

the loss of jst one wicket, before the batsmen made a

mess of pacing the innings.

A fluent half century by Suryakumar Yadav only turned

out to be the only bright spot in the innings and some

contribution by the skipper Rohit Sharma on an other

wise miserable performance by the five time champions,

which is aiming for its six title and a hat-trick of titles.

Skipper Rohit Sharma scored 43 in 32 balls (3×4, 1×6)

and Yadav (56, 36 balls, 7×4, 2×6) added 76 for the

second wicket after the early exit of De Kock, but

the middle failed to consolidate as the champions

finished at a far below par score on a wicket which

assisted pace and also good for batting.

Andre Russell picked up five wickets in his two overs,

to trigger the collapse and ended up taking three wickets

in the final over.

Following is the scorebaord :

Mumbai Indians :

Rohit Sharma Cummins 43

Quinton De Kock c Rahul Tripathi b Varun Chakravarthy 2

Suryakumar Yadavc Gill b Shakib Al Hasan 56

Ishan Kishan c Prasadh Krishna b Pat Cummins 1

Hardik Pandya c Russell b Prasidh Krishna 15

Kieron Pollard c Dinesh Karthilb Andre Russell 5

Krunal Pandya c Prasidhs Krishna b Andre Russe; 15

Marco Jansen c Cummins b Andre Russel 0

Rahul Chahar c Gill b Andre Russell 8

jaspirt Bumrah c Shaik Al Hasan b Andre Russelll 0

Trent Boutl (not out) 0

Extras : (lb-4, w-3) 7

Total : 152 all out in 20 overs.

Fall of wickets : 1-10, 2-86, 3-88, 4-115, 5-123,

6-125, 7-126, 8-150, 9-150, 10-152.

Bowling :

Harbhajan Singh 2-0-17-0

Varun Chakravarthy 4-0-27-1

Shaik Al Hasan 4-0-23-1

Pat Cummins 4-0-24-2

Prasidh Krishna 4-0-42-1

Andre Russell 2-0-15-5.(UNI)