MI vs KKR IPL 2022: Who won today's IPL match? Man of the Match, Point Table, Orange Cap, Purple Cap

Who won today’s IPL match?: The 56th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 saw Mumbai Indians (MI) and Kolkata Knight Riders squaring off with each other at Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium. While the five-time champions saw themselves getting knocked out of the tournament after Rajasthan Royals’ win over Punjab Kings, KKR on the other hand were in a desperate need of a win. And they did stood tall on the big occasion to hand MI their 9th loss of the season and keep their hopes for playoffs alive.

Today’s IPL match result

Invited to bat first, Venkatesh Iyer (43) and Ajinkya Rahane (25) took KKR off the flyer and scored 60 runs for the opening partnership inside the power play. However after that it was Jasprit Bumrah’s show as the right-arm pacer took five-wicket haul to put KKR on the backseat after a staggering start. They scored 165 runs with Nitish Rana also scoring 43 runs.

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Chasing the target, MI lost skipper Rohit Sharma (2) and Tilak Varma (6) early. Ishan Kishan kept his side in the hunt with his half-century but KKR kept taking wickets at regular intervals to put MI under pressure. Pat Cummins turned the game in his side’s favour after he took 3 wickets in the 15th over. After that they bundled out the five-time champions for just 113 runs to win the match by 52 runs.

Man of the match today IPL

Despite his side losing the match, Mumbai Indians pacer Jasprit Bumrah was awarded player of the match in today’s encounter against Kolkata Knight Riders. The right-arm pacer made the opposition batsmen made look clueless as he tested with variations that coupled with his skills and lines and lengths. He returned with his IPL-career best figures of 5/19 and helped his restrict KKR for 165 runs. He removed the likes of Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Sheldon Jackson, Sunil Narine and Pat Cummins to take his first five-wicket haul in IPL.

Today IPL highlights

You can catch highlights of today’s IPL 2022 encounter between Mumbai Indians (MI) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) that took place at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai on official website of IPL. Here’s the link to the same:
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IPL schedule

The next match of the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is slated to take place between Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Gujarat Titans (GT) at MCA in Mumbai on Tuesday (11th May).

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IPL 2022 Point Table

Teams	P	W	L	Pts	Nrr
Lucknow Super Giants	11	8	3	16	+0.703
Gujarat Titans	11	8	3	16	+0.120
Rajasthan Royals	11	7	4	14	+0.326
Royal Challengers Bangalore	12	7	5	14	-0.115
Delhi Capitals	11	5	6	10	+0.150
Sunrisers Hyderabad	11	5	6	10	-0.031
Kolkata Knight Riders	12	5	7	10	-0.057
Punjab Kings	11	5	6	10	-0.231
Chennai Super Kings	11	4	7	8	+0.028
Mumbai Indians	11	2	9	4	-0.894

IPL 2022 Orange Cap

POS	Player	Mat	Inns	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100	50
1	Jos Buttler	11	11	618	116	61.80	152.21	3	3
2	KL Rahul	11	11	451	103*	50.11	145.01	2	2
3	Faf du Plessis	12	12	389	96	35.36	132.76	0	3
4	Shikhar Dhawan	11	11	381	88*	42.33	122.11	0	3
5	David Warner	8	8	356	92*	59.33	156.82	0	4

IPL 2022 Purple Cap

POS	Player	Mat	Inns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	Avg	Econ	SR
1	Yuzvendra Chahal	11	11	319	22	40/5	14.50	7.25	12.00
2	Wanindu Hasaranga	12	12	322	21	18/5	15.33	7.85	11.71
3	Kuldeep Yadav	11	11	352	18	14/4	17.16	8.42	12.22
4	Kagiso Rabada	10	10	323	18	33/4	17.94	8.72	12.33
5	T Natarajan	9	9	303	17	10/3	17.82	8.65	12.35