Mumbai' captain Rohit Sharma celebrates with his teammates, the dismissal of Kolkata' Andre Russell during an T20 2018 cricket match at Eden Garden in Kolkata on Wednesday. Pic/PTI

A masterful and brave performance in a crunch game is what Mumbai delivered on Wednesday night in front of a packed Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The ball seemed to dig in a bit before coming on to the batsman but Mumbai took the bull by the horns and wrestled themselves into a terrific position and the second half of the match turned out to be anti-climatic.