Andre Russell the West Indian all rounder took his maiden 5 wicket haul in his IPL career against Mumbai Indians on 13th of April at MA Chidambaram stadium in Chennai.
After losing Quinton De Kock early, Surya Kumar Yadav (56) joined hands with skipper Rohit Sharma (43) to give a solid start to Mumbai innings, Mumbai were 86-1 after 10 overs and looking solid to set a good target for Kolkata to chase down.
After losing Surya in 11th over, Mumbai started losing wickets at regular intervals, they found themselves 125-5 in 17 overs, that’s when Andre Russell came to bowl his first over.
He wrapped up the Mumbai innings bagging all the remaining 5 wickets to end is tally at 15-5 (2).
A remarkable death bowling performance in which he took the big wickets of fellow countrymen Kieron Pollard and Krunal Pandya reduce the Mumbai innings to 152-10 in 20 overs, he got Rahul Chahar on the final ball of the innings to achieve his first fifer.