Mumbai Indians defeated the Punjab Kings in Mohali by chasing down 215 in the nineteenth over, pulling off a hardly realistic chase.
Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav outperformed their rivals and even themselves in the chase, cruising home with seven balls to spare after Punjab’s onslaught from Jitesh Sharma and Liam Livingstone had brought them to a huge total. MI became the first side in the IPL to accomplish the record with their second straight 200+ chase.
Shikhar Dhawan and Prabhsimran Singh began their innings quietly after Mumbai won the toss and decided to bowl first. However, the latter then nicked behind Arshad Khan, handing the Punjab Kings an early blow.
Around the conclusion of the powerplay, Dhawan and the new player, Matthew Short, began to loosen up, and they were in the process of giving Punjab the upper hand. Dhawan was then forced to dance down the track once more, but Piyush Chawla’s cunning managed to get rid of him. Punjab had not really taken advantage of the conditions and were 78-2 after ten overs.
4-0-29-2 was a masterclass demonstration by Piyush Chawla. Only two wickets had been lost, though. This could be the quiet before the storm.
An impossible thing happened at Mohali thanks to a fantastic full-toss from Jofra Archer at Livingstone. One of Jofra’s slips off of his hand, which was only able to strike Livingstone’s bat’s splice, demonstrated why he is renowned for his frugal spells and street-smart bowling.
Jitesh Sharma, who blasted three fours in the over that resulted in 21 runs, however, was able to exact revenge. Following that, the Kings were impossible to stop as they annihilated the Mumbai bowling throughout the entire park.
As the pair pounded out 119 runs in 52 balls, Livingstone exacted revenge by hammering Archer for three consecutive sixes in the penultimate over. The IPL’s quickest bowler, Archer, who had earlier thrown a ball at 153 kmph, finished with miserable stats of 4-0-56-0.
In white-ball cricket, especially for the Mumbai Indians, Rohit Sharma hasn’t been in great form for a long. In the powerplay, he was defeated by Rishi Dhawan, and the Punjab Kings gained an early advantage.
Mumbai was in trouble when Cam Green, who had formed a solid partnership with Ishan Kishan during the powerplay, was run out off the final ball, leaving them with a needed rate of over eleven and two of their best batters out.
It took place after that. Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav, the Mumbai Indians’ Livingstone-Jitesh counterparts, smashed Punjab’s bowling, leaving no one left. Even Punjab’s go-to man, Arshdeep Singh, had taken a beating from the steadfast Suryakumar and the resurgent Ishan Kishan.
The violence in Mohali was very clean. Mumbai required 45 off 30 by the time Suryakumar fell. Kishan finally fell, and 37 off 24. They had made an unlikely pursuit into a classic cakewalk, although not remaining unopposed.
The hosts still had a chance to rally after losing Suryakumar and Kishan. However, it turned out that this was only a speculative possibility given the recent performances of Tim David and Tilak Varma.
To easily reach a goal that appeared impossible at the end of the first innings, the partnership crushed 38 off 16 balls. This gave the Mumbai Indians two very important points and increased the excitement of the mid-table match.
With the victory, Mumbai Indians moved up to the sixth spot in the standings, while PBKS, who had a great opportunity to move up to the top half, were left in shambles at the seventh spot. It was PBKS’s fourth straight loss in Mohali.