After 14 years, Mumbai Indians' Tilak Varma scripts rare 'unwanted' IPL record

NEW DELHI: Mumbai Indians came into the clash against Kolkata Knight Riders with nary unit of qualification aft already being knocked retired of the IPL 2026 playoff race. With thing to lose, the five-time champions were expected to play an assertive marque of cricket astatine Eden Gardens.

Instead, their batting portion crumbled nether unit arsenic not a azygous batter managed to transverse the 35-run mark.After being asked to bat first, MI suffered an aboriginal collapse. Ryan Rickelton departed for 6, Naman Dhir fell for a duck, portion Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav could negociate lone 15 runs each.

With wickets tumbling quickly, the work fell connected Tilak Varma to dependable the innings and revive Mumbai’s hopes of posting a competitory total.

However, the left-hander endured a uncommon disconnected day, crawling to 20 runs disconnected 32 deliveries astatine a onslaught complaint of conscionable 62.50.In the process, Tilak registered an unwanted IPL grounds that had remained untouched for 14 years. The past batter to look 30 oregon much deliveries successful an IPL innings and people astatine a little onslaught complaint was Michael Hussey, who made 19 disconnected 32 balls astatine a onslaught complaint of 59.37 for Chennai Super Kings against Rajasthan Royals successful Jaipur successful May 2012.

Tilak, contempt this disappointing outing, has enjoyed a beardown IPL 2026 play overall. In 13 matches truthful far, helium has scored 356 runs astatine an mean of 32.36 and a onslaught complaint of 148.95, including 1 period and 2 fifties.But against KKR, the attacking batter known for changing games single-handedly ne'er truly recovered momentum.KKR’s bowlers maintained relentless unit passim the innings. Sunil Narine, Cameron Green and Saurabh Dubey led the complaint with disciplined spells to restrict MI to 147/8.Green removed Rickelton early, portion Dubey struck doubly successful speedy succession to disregard Rohit and Suryakumar. Rohit deed 2 sixes during his 15-ball stay, portion Suryakumar’s little cameo of 15 disconnected six balls ended erstwhile Dubey bowled him.Tilak and skipper Hardik Pandya tried to rebuild with a 43-run partnership, but neither batter could interruption escaped connected a aboveground assisting the bowlers. Tilak was yet caught by Anukul Roy disconnected Kartik Tyagi, portion Hardik’s scratchy 27 disconnected 26 balls ended erstwhile Narine bowled him.Will Jacks added a speedy 14 earlier being tally retired done a crisp effort involving Rinku Singh and Varun Chakravarthy.The lone precocious flourish came from Corbin Bosch, who remained unbeaten connected 32 disconnected 18 balls with 3 boundaries and 2 sixes. Deepak Chahar besides chipped successful with 10 disconnected 7 deliveries to assistance MI retrieve somewhat astatine the end.Among the bowlers, Dubey and Green claimed 2 wickets each, portion Tyagi besides picked up a brace. Narine erstwhile again proved decisive with a miserly spell of 1/13 successful 4 overs.