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Mi vs pbks: Punjab Kings defeated Mumbai Indians in the 69th match of IPL. Earlier in the match, Punjab won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, the Mumbai team scored 184 runs in 20 overs at the loss of 7 wickets. Punjab completed this challenge in the 19th over and won easily. Punjab Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets. With this, Punjab Kings have reached the top position in the points table. This means that now Iyer’s Punjab will get to play an additional match for the final. At the same time, Mumbai Indians will now have to win the remaining matches to reach the finals.
Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 184 against Punjab Kings. Due to the brilliant half -centuries of Priyansh Arya and Josh English, Punjab easily won with 9 balls remaining. At the same time, even after the shameful defeat against Punjab, Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya appeared in a different ego.
We won five trophies.
After the match, captain Hardik Pandya said, “The kind of wickets we were, we were behind 20 runs. We are playing good cricket. We have won five trophy and it has always been difficult. Our bowling was not clinical. He played well and shot. We want to play good cricket even further.” Hardik said so.
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We are not very scared ..
Pandya further said, “We have to find the right template for batting line-up and we are not afraid.” We knew what the problem was. There has been no change in the situation four days ago. In which we are finding ourselves again.
The situation of Mumbai Indians was bad. Then Suryakumar Yadav scored 57 runs. Along with this, he also completed his fifth half -century in IPL 2025. He hit 6 fours and 2 sixes in this innings. Apart from this, no Mumbai batsman could reach close to the half -century. This was a major reason for MI’s defeat.
Priyansh Arya and Josh English half -century
Priyansh Arya scored 62 off 35 balls against Mumbai Indians. Josh English scored 73 runs at a strike rate of 173. On the basis of half -centuries of these two batsmen, Punjab Kings easily achieved the target set by Mumbai Indians.
