Three-time champions Chennai Super Kings moved to the top of the Indian Premier League table with an 18 run victory over Kolkata Knight Riders.
Chennai made 220-3 of their 20 overs with Faf du Plessis making an unbeaten 95 and Ruturaj Gaikwad 64. Kolkata fell to 31-5, with Deepak Chahar taking 4-29 over four overs.
They improved to leave 28 needed from two overs, with Andre Russell making a 21-ball 50, Dinesh Karthik 40 and Pat Cummins 66 *, but Chennai hung on.
Chennai, who started the tournament with a loss before back-to-back wins, started well with Du Plessis and Gaikwad sharing 115 for the first wicket.
Gaikwad was under pressure after scoring just 20 in his first three outings, but the pair played with freedom and struck out 15 fours and eight sixes between them.
Moeen Ali, who scored 25 off 12 balls, MS Dhoni and struck out an eight-out ball, also made useful contributions, while Ravindra Jadeja hit his only ball for six.
Varun Chakravarthy was the KKR bowlers’ choice taking 1-27 of his four overs, but the rest struggled with Australia’s fast-rising Cummins recording the worst bowling figures in this season’s tournament by going 58 in four overs without a wicket.
KKR captain England captain Eoin Morgan had played their previous three matches in Chennai, where the pitch has been slow and difficult to score, while Mumbai has had enough speed and bounce extra, and they tried to adjust with ball and bat.
Chahar found enough swing moves – in and out – to eliminate Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Morgan and Sunil Narine before Russell combined with Dinesh Karthik to wear 81 and drag KKR back into the game.
When Russell was bowled, the ball having reached its half-century, after misjudging a ball he was trying to leave wide, Karthik and Cummins threw 34 of 22 balls, before Karthik was out to Lungi Ngidi for 40.
Cummins continued to attack, hitting Sam Curran for 30 in the 16th over, and bringing up his half-century off 23 balls.
Curran recovered to surrender only eight from the 19th over, to leave 20 required from the final over but Prasidh Krishna ran out of the first ball looking to reach back for a second run.
Chennai tops – until at least Thursday when the unbeaten Royal Challengers Bangalore plays – while KKR is sixth. (BBC Sport)