Tilak Verma Wants to 'Run Away' With the Bat Virat Kohli Gifted Rinku Singh | WATCH
IPL 2024, MI vs KKR: Tilak Verma and Rinku Singh (Instagram)
Tilak Verma and Rinku Singh, who recently received a second bat from Virat Kohli after breaking the first one he got, were involved in banter ahead of the 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL) clash between Mumbai Indians (MI) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Wankhede Stadium.
Tilak and Rinku were joking with the bat that the latter got from Kohli.
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India captain Rohit Sharma was seen speaking to Rinku for a while, after his press conference on India’s squad for the T20 World Cup, during the pre-match training.
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As for the game, KKR will look to iron out their flaws and get the better of a misfiring MI when the two teams, placed on the opposite ends of the IPL points table spectrum, clash on Friday.
With six wins in nine games giving them 12 points and the second position in the IPL points table, a berth in the playoffs looks within the grasp of two-time winners KKR.
But the Shreyas Iyer-led side will have to find consistency across departments and avoid any slip-ups in order to make it to the final four.
Each of their three losses have come in the last six games for KKR, who were at the receiving end of a record run chase by Punjab Kings but did well to bounce back with a seven-wicket thrashing of Delhi Capitals.
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For Mumbai Indians, the race to the IPL playoffs seems lost even though the five-time winners have five more games to play.
Even if Mumbai Indians win each of these, they can only get to 16 points and somewhere in the middle of the points table — not necessarily challenging those who have been consistently good.
(With inputs from Agencies)