MI vs PBKS Stats Review Kieron Pollard'

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Mumbai Indians have won their 1st match in 2nd phase of IPL 2021 after 3 consecutive defeats. The defending champions have bounced back in style finally against the Punjab Kings side with the help of Kieron Pollard's all-round show. Punjab were invited to bat by the Mumbai side after winning the toss and they were struggling at 50/4 after end of 8 overs, but post that setback Aiden Markram and Deepak Hooda stitched a good 61-run partnership from 47 balls and took PBKS to a formidable total of 135 on a slowish Abu Dhabi wicket.

Mumbai Indians initially were struggling to chase down the total of 136 runs and at one stage it looked like PBKS can pull off this game like they did against SunRisers few days back by defending a small total of 125 runs. MI, despite the initial setback, got going in the later stage of game with help of Saurabh Tiwary's anchoring role. In the final overs, Pollard and Hardik Pandya finished the job for them and won this game by a 6-wicket margin.

Numbers and Stats from MI vs PBKS match:

1 - Kieron Pollard achieved the milestone of picking 300 wickets in T20 cricket. Currently, he remains to be the only player to have scored 10,000 runs and take 300 wickets in T20 cricket.

2 - Krunal Pandya became only the 2nd player after Kieron Pollard to smash 1000 runs and pick up 50 wickets for Mumbai Indians.

3 - Kieron Pollard has won 3 Man of the Match awards in IPL 2021 which remains to be the most for any player in the ongoing season so far.

5 - Suryakumar Yadav recorded his 5th duck for MI in IPL.

7000 - Quinton de Kock completed the milestone of 7000 runs in T20 cricket.

7 - Mumbai Indians have won 7 matches in Abu Dhabi which is joint-most with Kolkata Knight Riders.

115 - Mohammed Shami has bowled most dot balls in IPL 2021 so far.