Cricket Highlights, 04 May: IPL 2023 (Match 46) – Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians

Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians (Match 46) – Highlights

Mumbai Indians (MI) started the season’s camp by losing the first two matches, but the team then turned around in a big way. MI defeated Punjab Kings (PBKS) by 6 wickets in the 48th match of the season in Mohali.

Chasing the target of 215 runs given by the Kings on Wednesday (April 3), Rohit Sharma’s team reached the port of victory with 7 balls in hand. Ishan Kishan was elected player of the match after playing an impeccable innings of 75 runs in 41 balls hitting 7 fours and 4 sixes.

Coming down to chase the big target of 215 runs, MI lost Rohit’s wicket in the third ball. The captain returned to the dressing room without scoring any runs. For the second wicket, Ishan Kishan and Cameron Green continued to score runs for the team. Green got out after scoring 23 runs off 18 balls but Ishan was steadfast on the day. He made a partnership of 116 runs playing for 9.1 overs with Suryakumar Yadav for the third wicket.

Suryakumar hit 2 sixes and 2 fours off Sam Curran’s over and reached his fifty in 22 balls. Ishan completed his 50 off 29 balls. The pair of centuries broke when Suryakumar was caught by Arshdeep and the delivery was done by Nathan Ellis. When Suryakumar returned to the pavilion after playing a brilliant innings of 66 runs off 31 balls (8 fours and 2 sixes), the team’s score was 170 runs.

Ishan (75) was out in the next over. But by that time, the victory was in the hands of Rohit’s team. Tilak Varma did the rest with Tim David. These two batsmen secured the team’s victory by scoring 38 runs in 16 balls. David was unbeaten on 19 runs from 10 balls and Tilak was unbeaten on 26 runs from 10 balls.

Nathan Ellis took the maximum number of 2 wickets for PBKS. Besides, Rishi Dhawan and Arshdeep Singh took 1 wicket each. Where Arshdeep was the most expensive among the PBKS bowlers conceding 66 runs in 3.5 overs.

Earlier, the Kings’ batsmen did not get off to a good start after losing the toss. Prabhsimran Singh returned for 9 runs. 30 runs from 20 balls came from captain Shikhar Dhawan’s bat. Matthew Short scored 27 runs off 26 balls.

Jitesh Sharma and Liam Livingstone then put PBKS in a strong position. PBKS scored 78 runs in the first ten overs and scored 136 runs in the last 10 overs. However, the stormy batting of the Kings did not work in the end. However, Jitesh and Livingstone made an unbroken partnership of 119 runs for the 4th wicket.

Livingstone was unbeaten at the end scoring 82 runs off 42 balls, with 7 fours and 4 sixes. With 5 fours and 2 sixes, Jitesh made 49 runs from 27 balls. Due to these, PBKS collected a huge score of 214 runs with the loss of just three wickets in the end. Piyush Chawla took the highest number of 2 wickets for MI. Besides, Arshad Khan took 1 wicket.

By winning this match, Mumbai Indians have reached the 6th place in the points table with 10 points in 9 matches. On the other hand, Punjab Kings are now in 7th place with 10 points taking part in 10 matches after being defeated in this match.

Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians Scoreboard

Punjab Kings – 214/3 (20.0)

Mumbai Indians – 216/4 (18.5)

Result – Mumbai Indians won by 6 wickets

Player of the match – Ishan Kishan

Mumbai Indians

Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians Playing XIs