PBKS versus MI, IPL 2023: Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav’s partnership of 116 runs for the third wicket off 55 balls enabled the Mumbai Indians. Chasing a significant target of 215 runs, to reach home with seven balls remaining.
Suryakumar Yadav’s 360-degree effort, yielded 66 off 31 balls. Complemented Ishan Kishan’s stylish 75 off 41 balls as Mumbai Indians powered to a six-wicket victory over Punjab Kings in an IPL match on Wednesday.
Jitesh Sharma, uncapped (49; 27b) Liam Livingstone. A T20 specialist (82 not out; 42b) in energy and showiness as the team moved forward in style in the back finish to impel Punjab Rulers to a battling 214/3 after Mumbai Indians selected to bowl.
MI raced to the target with seven balls remaining to secure their fifth victory in nine matches thanks to the duo’s 116 runs from 55 balls.
Arshdeep Singh took a shocking catch to excuse Suryakumar off Aussie seamer Nathan Ellis (2/34) and afterward. He came to dumbfound the following and represented Ishan with a knuckleball.
Tim David (19 not out) and Tilak Verma (26 not out) completed the chase after the duo was run out for eight runs in the opening innings of the match, which required 37 runs from 22 balls.
Arshdeep Singh was bowled out for 66 in 3.5 overs by Tilak Verma. They scored 26 not out of 10 balls. It was over quickly in the end.
On net run rate, the victory elevated MI to sixth place, surpassing Punjab (10 points from 10 matches).
From 0/1, it was only one way for Mumbai Indians. With Ishan and Cameron Green, forming a fifty-plus partnership to counterattack (23; 18b) to establish the pace.
When faced with Punjab’s master pacer, Arshdeep Singh, the pair got going and hit him for 16 runs.
Ishan previously showed the way with Cameron Green (23 off 18 balls) in a fifty or more association to show the manner.
In after their five-time title-winning captain Rohit Sharma covered a three-ball duck in his 200th appearance for his establishment.
In company with Suryakumar, the left-handed wicketkeeper-batsman gave Mumbai a perfect start by batting at his most belligerent.
It was then Suryakumar show that illuminated Mohali when he batted with scorn against Sam Curran to rush to a 23-ball fifty, his third this season and nineteenth generally.
Suryakumar, who took Akash Madhwal’s place as Impact Substitute. Quickly opened his blade to a wide Curran delivery and easily cleared the backward point boundary.
Surya went down on his knee to sail the ball over to 87 meters after Curran returned with a wide, full-length delivery.
The following ball he gave a return catch to Curran however it was excessively challenging for the pacer as he crushed two additional limits to get 23 runs from the over.
The MI duo never looked back as they continued to score boundaries to reduce the total to 45 runs from the final five overs.
Earlier, Livingstone scored the most runs of the season with 82 not out (42b). Including seven boundaries and four sixes, after soaring to fifty in 32 balls.
PBKS gloveman Sharma continued to impress as he remained unbeaten on 49 (27b) in a 119-run fourth-wicket partnership that came off just 53 balls. Giving Livingstone the perfect support.
Livingstone was at his irate best when he smacked his English partner Jofra Toxophilite for three sixes in succession in the nineteenth over.
There was no hammer bang approach except for sheer conventional hits on the two sides of the wicket from the Vidarbha attendant player.
Despite hitting five fours and two sixes and looking fluent against legspinner Chawla and Archer’s raw pace, Sharma was one run short of his first IPL fifty.
Archer, MI’s star English pacer, looked rusty and conceded 56 runs from his full quota. Which was a big letdown for MI.
It was one more unfortunate show from the MI bowlers at the back-end as they offered 115 runs from 48 balls to surrender a fourth progressive 200 or more score.
At 99/3 out of 12 overs after Chawla’s clean spell of 2/29. MI hoped to have fixed the noose after Rohit Sharma was picked to bowl.
The team of Livingstone and Sharma raised the stakes in the following over when they took Bowman to cleaners in an over that yielded 21 runs.
Returning from a physical issue, Bowman looked delinquent and bowled a midsection high full throw which would have been a terrible blow however his English colleague figured out how to take care of it.
Sharma then released his anger crushing Bowman’s four limits to get into the depression.
On batting-belter, Chawla sagaciously shifted his speed and unobtrusively took care of his business, excusing a risky-looking Shikhar Dhawan (30; 20b) and Matthew Short (27; 26b) during the middle innings.
Having got a respite on 23, Dhawan began to break the shackles and ventured out of Chawla for a limit over the bowler’s head.
The veteran legspinner had the upper hand this time when he outfoxed the lefthander by altering his length, and Dhawan attempted to repeat the action in the subsequent delivery.
Straight from their whopper of success against Chennai. PBKS couldn’t find their magic front and center after Rohit Sharma was picked to bowl.
PBKS got off to a shaky start when they returned to the same venue where their bowlers were hammered by Lucknow Super Giants for a massive 257/5.
In the second over, Prabhsimran Singh was out, and Dhawan, as usual, started slowly.