Mumbai Indians vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Match 51 - Live Cricket Score

"As a professional cricketer, I have to be flexible in terms of situation. When I started hitting the ball well, two more wickets fell and I thought I have to play the anchor role. This is the fourth or fifth time Manish has padded up. This time he got to bat. Rather than sending Russell and Ramandeep higher, better to have Manish who can play the anchor role. Ball was holding and it was a two paced wicket. I try to be a smarter cricketer. Would've been easy for me to go after Piyush Chawla and the fast bowlers. Team needed me to be there till the end. I've been a huge fan of dada. Went to ask him about my stance and technical aspects. Was a fruitful conversation. It's coming through in my stance and other aspects in the nets," Iyer said.

"Just having a conversation with Starcy. Told him how important this game for us. If we lost this, would've had to win two out of four. Would take this anyday. Beautiful victory for us. Hope we could've cherished this one. But we have a match day after as well. Certainly, with this impact player rule, it has helped us in this game. Manish has been eyeing an opportunity from Day 1. Today he got it. We got to a commendable total. All I had to say to the boys was we can defend it with our bowling lineup. They were unreal to be honest (on the two spinners). Absolutely spot on in terms of execution with line and lengths. He's been eagerly waiting to go out and express himself in earlier games as well (on Venkatesh Iyer)" Iyer said.

"I mean obviously in the batting inning, we couldn’t form partnerships and kept losing wickets, in T20s if you don’t form partnerships, it will cost you. Not much, there are a lot of questions but that will take some time to answer but for now, not much to say. As you mentioned, the bowlers did a fantastic job, the wicket got a little better after the first innings, the dew came on. We will go through the game and see what could we have done better. You keep fighting, that is what I tell to myself, never leave the battlefield, tough days come but good also come here, it’s challenging but challenges make you better," Hardik said.

WHAT A TURNAROUND! Mitchell Starc picked up four wickets to get the job done for KKR. They win at Wankhede Stadium after 12 long years. What a day! They win by 24 runs.

Duck for Piyush Chawla. Starc picked up another one. MI are 144/9

Massive wicket for KKR. Tim David departed for 24 runs off 20 balls. Mitchell Starc gave the breakthrough as MI are 144/8

32 runs are needed in two overs. WHAT A GAME WE HAVE IN OUR HANDS.

Just three runs off the over as MI are 127/7 after 17 overs. MI need 43 runs to win in three overs.

46 runs remaining in four overs. All eyes are on Tim David. MI are 124/7 after 16 overs.

Massive wicket for KKR. Suryakumar Yadav departed for 56 runs as MI are 120/7

Another massive over for Mumbai. 20 runs off Vaibhav's over. Suryakumar Yadav also completed his half-century. His fourth against KKR. MI are 110/6 after 12 overs. Fantastic. They now need 60 runs to win.

Runs are finally flowing for MI. Eight runs off Narine's over as MI are 92/6 after 12 overs.

Some much-needed runs for MI. 11 off it, they are 82/6 after 12 overs. With Suryakumar and Tim David still in the crease, MI will fancy themselves. 88 runs needed in eight overs.

Skipper Hardik Pandya departed for one run. Andre Russell picked up the prized wicket. MI are 71/6

Nehal Wadhera departed for six runs off 11 balls. Sunil Narine gave the breakthrough. They are 70/5 now.