'Greatest sport to exist' - Twitter users hail Pat Cummins for demolishing Mumbai

While the 14th game of the Indian T20 league 2022 between Kolkata and Mumbai was expected to be a close contest, Pat Cummins finished things off rather early. He went on to equal the record for the fastest fifty in the history of the league. The Australian superstar has well and truly arrived in the 2022 edition.

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After winning the toss and electing to bowl first, Kolkata were superb with the new ball. Once again, their pacers were fabulous in the powerplay overs. Mumbai's top order struggled to get the big shots.

Rohit Sharma's poor form continued as he struggled to get going once again. The Mumbai skipper scored three from 12 balls. Ishan Kishan was dismissed rather cheaply as well. All eyes were on the debutant Dewald Brevis. The U19 star scored a quickfire 29 before getting stumped.

After which, Suryakumar Yadav resumed his normal services as he once again played the rescue act. In his first game of this edition, the audacious batter scored a brilliant 52 off just 36 deliveries. He was well supported by the youngster Tilak Varma, who scored an unbeaten 38.

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Kieron Pollard got back to the groove as his cameo ensured that the five-time champions get to a respectable total. In just five deliveries, he hit three sixes. Taking Mumbai's superb bowling attack into account, the chase was never going to be easy for Kolkata. Their opener did find it hard as they struggled to get going.

As a matter of fact, Ajinkya Rahane was dismissed after scoring 7 off 11 balls. Shreyas Iyer and Sam Billings tried to dictate terms, but to no avail. Both the batters perished before the 10th over. Venkatesh played the role of an anchor and tried to steady the ship.

However, Cummins completely changed the complexion of the game. His 14-ball half-century enabled Kolkata to chase the total with four overs to spare. Mumbai have now lost their first three games of this season.

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Here are some of the Tweets from today's game:

Incredible match, greatest sport to exist

— Prithvi (@Puneite_) April 6, 2022

Well played nohit 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏

Iss saal lutiya duba di bhai..

— Param Jain (@pune109) April 6, 2022

Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings have lost 3 consecutive matches in #IPL2022.

— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) April 6, 2022

Mumbai Indians has made Chennai fans happier than CSK this season so far.

— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) April 6, 2022

Wow again!!! @KKRiders boys!! pic.twitter.com/ctt0ZQ7vVC

— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) April 6, 2022

Mumbai fans... What's on Daniel Sams... 🤣🤣🤣
Cummins just replicated what he did against Sam Curran & CSK previous year... 3 defeats each for champion teams... #IPL2022 #MIvKKR

— Aviral Rai💛 (@cric_fan23) April 6, 2022

Russell is bad at picking this length. Should have waited before blindly hitting it

— 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙮𝙪𝙨𝙝 (@ps26_11) April 6, 2022

Mumbai Indians be like:

Team mein 2 -2 Russell pic.twitter.com/qTugT9QOab

— Prithvi (@Puneite_) April 6, 2022

Cummins >>> Bumrah

In bowling in batting in test in T20 in odi 👍

— Aditi || Pat Cummins 🏏 (@Sev_Khamani) April 6, 2022

KKR are undefeated at Pune. 7 wins in 7 games 😍

— Pratik (@Prat1k_) April 6, 2022

Rohit Sharma isn't looking same anymore, it's high time Mumbai Indians should think about future and give chance to youngsters in place of him. Our strong Mumbai team earlier used to carry Rohit but now his batting getting exposed. He should be sacked from Indian team also.

— ANSHUMAN🚩 (@AvegnerReturns) April 6, 2022