Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)'s Shreyas Iyer has labeled the impact player rule as the factor that has "definitely" helped him after his 24- on-going Indian Premier League (IPL). Helped take the season one step closer to the playoffs. KKR were on the verge of defeat after losing to Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium, when MI bowlers produced a brilliant performance to bowl them out for 57-5. In frustration, KK decided to reduce their bowling options and brought in Manish Pandey in place of all-rounder Ramandeep Singh, the veteran batsman used his experience to get KKR out of trouble and stitched an 83-run partnership with Venkatesh Iyer . One decision from the KKR management changed the course of the entire game as they put a struggling score of 16 on the board. Manish scored 42 runs in 31 balls with the help of two fours and two sky-high sixes. “Definitely, with this impact player rule, it has helped us in this game.Manis has been looking for an opportunity since day one. Today, he got it. We reached a commendable score. All I had to tell the boys was that we can defend it with our bowling lineup. To be honest, they were unrealistic (on the two spinners) and Shreyas praised the spinners and said that they were unrealistic and were spot on. His lines and length, adding that he executed his plans to perfection, “There are talks with Starrsie right now.I told him how important this game is for us. If we had lost this one we would have had to win two out of four. Would take it any day. Beautiful victory for us. Hope we have preserved it. But there is a match the day after tomorrow also. Perfect in terms of execution with line and length.He is eagerly waiting to go out and express himself in the earlier matches as well (on Venkatesh Iyer).'' Talking about the match, Venkatesh Iyer (70 runs off 52 balls), who came to bat first, scored 83 runs. There was a solid partnership. And Manish Pandey (42 runs from 31) bowled out KKR for 169 runs. For MI, Jasprit Bumrah took a double wicket, taking 3 for 18 in 3.5 overs. In reply, MI were all out for 145 runs.Starc scored one run. Making a brilliant comeback in the tournament with figures of 4-33 in just 3.5 spells to lead KKR to a 24-run win, Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine both finished with similar figures of 2/22, including some big wickets in the first half. were also included. The chase put KKR on top in the match.