Mumbai Indians, out of the Playoffs race after last week’s loss to Royal Challengers Bengaluru, slumped to their ninth defeat on Wednesday, going down to Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens. The four-wicket win in the low-scoring match kept KKR’s slender hopes of making the cut alive, having secured 13 points from as many games. MI managed 147-8 on a tricky track, thanks to some lusty hitting from No. 8 Corbin Bosch. KKR made heavy weather of the chase before getting home in the 19th over.

“If you look at the surface and the way we batted, we struggled to construct a partnership. We were some 20-25 runs short,” said MI’s bowling coach Paras Mhambrey. “They bowled well, but when you lose four wickets in the Powerplay, it’s always going to be difficult to come back. We still should have managed 160; it would have been really competitive,” he added. MI were 46-4 at that stage.