MI vs KKR Highlights, IPL 2026: Mumbai Indians break 13-year-old streak after Ryan Rickelton, Rohit Sharma heroics

That's it. Mumbai Indians have broken their 13-year season opener jinx by beating KKR by six wickets at the Wankhede Stadium. Before today, Mumbai Indians won their first game of the season in 2012. Naman Dhir hits the winning runs.

Mumbai Indians need 20 runs in the last three overs. Tilak Varma eases the pressure with a boundary. He gets a top edge and the ball flies over short third man. Four more to finish the over. MI 212/3

OUTTT!!! Welcome wicket for KKR. Ryan Rickelton pushes towards the on side with an eye for a two. Rickelton completes the first and when he starts for the second, Tilak Varma refuses. Anukul Roy hits the bulls eye at the non-striker's end. Rickelton walks back for 80 in 43 balls. Hardik Pandya comes out and hits two cracking shots for boundary. Wayward bowling from Muzarabani. MI 193/3 (16)

OUTTT!!!!!! Kartik Tyagi gets the better of Suryakumar Yadav. As soon as the ball hit SKY's bat, at one it looked like the ball has travelled over the fence. But the bat went round at the time of contact with the ball, went high only to rest at Rinku Singh's hand.

MI 179/2 (14.2)

OUTTT!!! Finally KKR get the breakthrough, thank to a brilliant catch by Anukul Roy. Vaibhav Arora bangs it short, with Rohit Sharma going for the pull. The ball didn't middle the bat and Anukul runs backwards to take a spectacular diving catch. Rohit walks back for 78 off 38 balls. Suryakumar Yadav walks in as an impact substitute, replacing Jasprit Bumrah. MI 152-1 (12)

DROPPEDD!!! Butter fingers from Vaibhav Arora. Ryan Rickelton finds Arora at the deep mid-wicket, but he drops. Second drop by KKR. Kartik Tyagi and Rinku Singh can't believe what they see. Wondering why Cameron Green and Anukul Roy aren't bowling. MI 122/0 (10)

There is no stopping Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton. After just one four off Varun Charavarathy, Rickelton clobbers Sunil Narine for two more sixes to bring up his fifty. 100 comes up for Mumbai Indians. MI 110-0 (9)

Kartik Tyagi is brought into the attack in the final over of the powerplay. Drops outside off and Rohit Sharma goes inside out for a six. There is no stopping for Rohit. The former skipper, this time goes on the over mid-wicket for a six. Fifty for Rohit in just 23 balls. MI 80/0 (6)

Varun Chakaravarthy is brought into the attack. Rohit Sharma welcome his India teammate with a four and a six. Absolute class from the former skipper. KKR desperately need to break the stand. Four more towards deep square leg boundary. MI 64-0 (5)

Ajinkya Rahane is down on the ground just before the start of tje fifth over Looks like Rahane is down with cramps. The KKR physio comes out running. Rahane is walking out of the field. Rinku Singh will be the stand-in-captain. Manish Pandey is the substitute fielder for Rahane.

SMOKED! Blessing Muzarabani bangs short on return and Rohit Sharma smashes into the stands. MI 49/0 (4)

BANGGG!!!! One missed length from Vaibhav Arora and Rohit Sharma sends the white cherry to the second tier to break the shackles. SIX more two balls later, this time from Ryan Rickelton towards the off-side. The South African finishes the over with another maximum as Rinku Singh can just see the ball go over by. Expensive over from Arora. MI 34-0 (3)

First over in the IPL for Blessing Muzarabani. He becomes the second player from Zimbabwe after Tatenda Taibu to play for KKR in IPL. Two fours off Muzarabani's bowling. For the record, Mumbai Indians have never chased down above 220 in their last seven attempts.

MI 15-0 (2)

Kartik Tyagi comes in as an Impact Substitute in place of Finn Allen for KKR. MI would bring in Suryakumar Yadav. Rohit Sharma and Ryan Rickelton walk out to bat for Mumbai Indians. 6 runs from the first over by Vaibhav Arora. MI 6/0 (1)

11 runs come in the last over bowled by Jasprit Bumrah. Rinku Singh finishes at 33 runs from 21 balls. For Mumbai Indians, Shardul Thakur took three wickets as KKR finished at 220/4 in 20 overs.

Fifty for Angkrish Raghuvanshi in 28 balls with a four off Hardik Pandya. OUTTT!!! The KKR star once again goes for a biggie, didn't get the elevation, and is caught by Tilak Varma. Raghuvanshi walks back for 51 runs. KKR 209-4 (19)

Fifty partnership comes up between Rinku Singh and Angkrish Raghuvanshi with a four off Jasprit Bumrah. Raghuvanshi goes down on one knee and sweeps towards backward square leg for a four. KKR 199/3 (18)

BANGGG!!! Angkrish Raghuvanshi enters 40s in just 23 balls with a huge six off Shardul Thakur. Quality shot from the Mumbai batter. Rinku Singh finishes the over with a late cut to boundary. KKR 191-3 (17)

Allah Ghazanfar becomes the second bowler to concede 50-plus runs on debut. The Mumbai Indians bowler gives away 51 runs in his four overs without a wicket. The record for highest runs conceded on debut is with RCB's Prayas Ray Barman who gave away 56 runs against SRH in 2019. KKR 177-3 (16)

Allah Ghazanfar comes to bowl his final over. Rinku Singh waits and cuts through the third man for a four. DROPPEDDD by Rohit Sharma. Angkrish Raghuvanshi smacks towards long on but the ball dips at the boundary line. Rohit Sharma, underneath the ball, puts both his hands out, but the ball goes through his hands for a one drop into the boundary. BANGG!! Much better from Raghuvanshi in the next ball, this time over the bowler's head for a huge six. KKR 167-3 (15)