IPL 2017: Mumbai Indians crush Kolkata to set up final clash vs Pune

Mumbai Indians Karn Sharma celebrates with team mates after taking wicket of Gautam Gambhir of Kolkata Knight Riders during the IPL 2017 Qualifier 2 match at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Friday PicPTIMumbai Indians entered their fourth finalof Indian Premier league IPL with a convincingsixwicket win over Kolkata Knight Ridersin their Indian Premier League IPL second qualifier clash at Bangalores M Chinnaswamy Stadium on FridayOpting to field after Rohit Sharma won the toss Mumbaibowled out Kolkata for a paltry 107 in 185 overs and thenchased down the target with 33 balls to spareLegspinner Karn Sharma was the star performer with theball for Mumbai returning excellent figures of 416 thejoint best effort by a spinner in an IPL knockout game whileJasprit Bumrah provided fine support to pick 37 in threeoversKrunal Pandya showed maturity finishing as Mumbais topscorer with 45 off 30 balls while Rohit contributed 26Earlier KKR off were to a disastrous start and werereeling at 31 for five at one stage with Karn and Bumrahdoing the bulk of damageKarn was brilliant on the night taking the wickets of Sunil Narine 10 Gautam Gambhir 12 Colin de Grandhomme 0 and Ishank Jaggi 28 to derail KKRs inningsSuryakumar Yadav 31 and Jaggi put a semblance of a fight with a 56run association for the sixth wicket but could not script a turnaround as the former fell in the 18th over looking to accelerateUmesh Yadav 2 was not out as Ankit Rajpoot 4 was the last man to be dismissedMorning showed the day as opener Chris Lynn 4 was sent back early by medium pacer Jasprit Bumrah 37 with a fullish delivery which the explosive Australian tried to loft over midon but was picked up by Keiron PollardThe men in purple who usually score at a brisk pace in the Powerplay overs struggled to get going with the ball not coming on to the bat even as Gambhir continued his good form hitting the first four of the innings in the third over off Mitchell Johnson playing in place of Mitchell McClenaghanNarine kept quiet by Bumrah Mitchell Johnson 228 and Lasith Malinga 124 cut loose with an uppish shot over deep midwicket for the first six of the innings before Karn outfoxed the West Indian spinner with a googly that saw Parthiv Patel effect an easy stumpingRobin Uthappa 1 did not last long being trapped plumb by Bumrah while trying to flick across the lineAfter six overs KKR could muster just 253 and skipper Gambhir lost his wicket five balls into the seventh over The southpaw was looked good before playing against the turn off Karn for Hardik Pandya to pouch the ball at deep midwicketKeeping veteran tweaker Harbhajan Singh on the bench Karn vindicated his captain Rohit Sharmas faith in him by taking the wicket of Colin de Grandhomme in the next delivery pinging the New Zealander on his backfoot for an easy leg before decisionAfter 10 overs KKR were tottering at 435 In the next four overs Suryakumar and Jaggi sought to stem the rout scoring 40 runs before their stand was broken by the excellent Karn taking the prized scalp of JaggiPiyush Chawla departed adding just two to the total and Nathan CoulterNile tonked Johnson for a six to bring up KKRs 100 in the 17th over before getting out