28 from the last 2 overs and Jacks with a SIX TO START!!! It's again unravelling for Punjab!! A single to put Tilak on strike. He tries going after the full toss but it's a dot. Physio checking on Tilak now. Looks good to continue. Just a single. Jacks needs to finish this one on a high. And a wide yorker which Jacks just about reaches to get a 4 to third man!! 

MI 186/4 after 19 overs

Jansen in the attack and Tilak has slammed a 6 off the first delivery!! Fifty for Tilak. They need more of that. Follows that up with 4 more!! Single next and Jacks on strike. And Jacks goes over the infield for 4 runs!! He takes a single and Tilak can finish this over off. AAND ENDS IT WITH A SIX!!! 

MI 173/4 after 18 overs

4 overs. 52 needed. Omarzai has the ball now. Starts with a dot. Will MI review for a wide not given? No, they don't. They review the next one though for height. It's not overturned though. AAAND GONE THE NEXT ONE!! Rutherford has holed out to Bartlett!!

Sherfane Rutherford c Xavier Bartlett b Azmatullah Omarzai 20(21)

Interesting call now by Punjab to bring back Chahal at this stage. The first ball is dispatched for a huge six by Tilak!! 106m long and we will need a new ball. Takes 2 next and the third one is placed for four more!! A single next to put Rutherford on strike. AAAND HE HAS HIT A SIX AS WELL!! Absolutely swatted over the ropes!! 20 from the over.

MI 149/3 after 16 overs

Arshdeep now and Tilak with a four before he mishit the next one and Jansen with a great effort but could not reach it!! A review by Punjab for a wide given. And it's a successful one and the call is overturned. 8 from this one.

MI 129/3 after 15 overs 

Jansen will bowl the 14th and Tilak with a single to start. Followed by a single by Rutherford. With the required run rate going past 12, these two batters need to break free. Excellent over. just 5 from it.

MI 121/3 after 14 overs

Omarzai back in the attack and after a swing and a miss, Rutherfor gives the strike to Tilak. It's a good decision as Tilak goes down on one knee and slog sweeps the ensuing delivery for a 6!!! Rutherford cuts the fifth ball for a four!!

MI 116/3 after 13 overs

Chahal in the attack now and Tilak and Rutherford rotate strike with singles. 100 up for Mumbai. A couple of singles follow as they slowly chip away at the target. Just 5 from this over.

MI 103/3 after 12 overs

Bartlett back in the attack and starts with a single and a dot with Tilak Varma currently on strike. Tilak finally gets one off his legs for a four to fine leg. Hits the next one very hard and that's just gone through Shreyas even hitting his hands for a four!! 

MI 98/3 after 11 overs

Chahal in the attack and after a wide, Rohit takes a very tight single. There was a direct hit but the former skipper was well inside the crease. That throw has broken the stumps so they have to replace it. And Rohit back on strike now and HE'S CLEANED UP by the wily spinner. A liitle bit of turn and it just evades Rohit's outside edge and has crashed into the stumps!!!

Rohit Sharma b Yuzvendra Chahal 25(26)

Jansen in to bowl the 9th and Rohit welcomes him with a SIX!!! Back to back singles. Leading edge now and Naman is gone!! Arshdeep makes no mistakes.

Naman Dhir c Arshdeep Singh b Marco Jansen 9(6) 

Chahal on the attack now and after a dot, Rohit takes a single. After another dot, Naman with a single of his own. Ultimately 3 from this one as the over is raced past.

MI 72/1 after 8 overs 

Omarzai will bowl the 7th and Rickelton pushes the first delivery for a single. Rohit returns the favour with a single of his own. AAAND HE STRIKES!! Rickelton goes for a flick and he has played it right into the hands of Arya in the deep.

Ryan Rickelton c Priyansh Arya b Azmatullah Omarzai 48(23)

Bartlett into his second and the last over inside powerplay. After a dot, Rickelton slams one over the bowler for SIX!! 50 up for Mumbai while Rickelton is just 4 away from his own half century. He takes a single to put Rohit on strike. AAAND HE HOIVKS ONE OVER MIDWICKET FOR A SIX!!! 

MI 59/0 after 6 overs

Arshdeep to bowl the penultimate over inside powerplay and Rohit swings at the forst ball but does not get a proper connection. Back to back dots as Rohit is struggling to break the shackles. Takes a single and Rickelton is on strike. And the South African goes over mid-off with a four!! 

MI 46/0 after 5 overs

Bartlett introduced now and Rickelton with a single to start. Followed by a single by Rohit as well. AAND RICKELTON GOES BIG AGAIN!! Pulls for another SIX!! Drills the next one straight past Bartlett for four more!! 

MI 40/0 after 4 wickets 

Jansen in the attack now and back to back dots as Rickelton swings and misses. Pulls again and this time he gets somewhat of a connection that gets him a boundary. Goes in the same direction again as he flicks off his pads for a flat six!! And another boundary, this time to fine leg!! You can't bowl there when your fine leg fielder is up.

MI 28/0 after 3 overs

Omarzai to bowl the next one and Rickelton creams it only for Shreays to pull off a great save to keep it down to just 1. That is folllowed by 2 runs from Rohit. A change of bats for Rohit now. Leves the 3rd ball. Another tight single but Punjab can't take advantage. A direct hit would have sent back Rohit. But Shashank fails to gather. Rickelton with a huge six on the other end, meanwhile. Pulled over backward square leg. 

MI 13/0 after 2 overs

Back for the chase and Arshdeep will bowl the first over. Rohit and Rickelton to open. Rohit on strike and he takes a single to get off the mark. A very risky single by Rickelton to go off strike. Back to back dots next as Rohit leaves one and gets beaten off the other. 

MI 2/0 after 1 over

Last over and Bumrah has the ball. Goes for a yorker and Bartlett picks it up for a four!! Back to back braces off the next 2 deliveries. A wide and 1 run bye next. Can PBKS get to 200? 2 more. 200 up. And a wicket to end. Umpire gives LBW but PBKS will review this one.  Impact outside so PBKS finish with 200/8. 

19th over and it'll be Bosch to bowl. Vishnu Vinod starts this one with a four before a catch is dropped once again for a SIX!! Minz the guilty party here. Bartlett on strike now and he has slapped one past the bowler for 4 more!! Wallops the next one straight through the hands of Tila Varma for 6 more!! 

PBKS 188/8 after 19 overs

Deepak Chahar to bowl his last over now. Vinod with a single to start this one off. Follows that up with 2 runs by Omarzai. Looks for the yorker, gets it wrong and Omarzai punishes the full toss for a 4!! Goes even better as he slaps one over long off for a SIX!! What a gem of an innings the Afghan allrounder is playing here. And would you know it!! He cuts the next one over deep backward square for 6 more!!! AAND HE HAS HOLED OUT TO JACKS IN THE DEEP. But is the damage done already?

Azmatullah Omarzai c Will Jacks b Deepak Chahar 38(17)

Shardul to bowl out with this over and HE HAS STRUCK AGAIN!! That's his 4th and Marco Jansen has to walk back!!!

Marco Jansen b Shardul Thakur 2(7)

Bumrah back in the attack and MI will look to skittle out the remaining PBKS batters. Starts with 2 singles as Jansen and Omarzai rotate strikes. If MI can take these two batters out, PBKS' bowlers are all that stand between them and a low score. Just 5 from this one.

PBKS 140/6 after 16 overs 

Bosch in to bowl the 15th and Omarzai picks one up and smashes it over the ropes for a SIX!!! An appeal for LBW on Shashank now. umpire gives it and PBKS will review. Impact is umpire's call and Shashank has to walk.

Shashank Singh lbw b Corbin Bosch 2(3)

Shardul will continue and HE HAS STRUCK AGAIN!!! Shedge drives one and Bawa has pulled off a cracker of a catch at short midwicket!! Shardul with his third!! Did MI miss a trick of not playing him regularly?

Suryansh Shedge c Raj Bawa b Shardul Thakur 8(5)

Raj Bawa handed the ball now and he starts with back to back dots. AAAND WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT!! HE HAS STRUCK NOW AS HE KNOCKS OVER THE BAILS!! PBKS in a fix now.

Cooper Connolly b Raj Bawa 21(22)

WOW!!! One brings 2 for Mumbai as Shardul has knocked over Punjab skipper Shreyas Iyer. Looking at his face, he couldn't believe it!! What a ball, a hint of movement and that was all that was needed to rattle the stumps. Fine margins.

Shreyas Iyer b Shardul Thakur 4(2)

Shradul in to bowl the 12th and starts with a wide before he is punished by Prabhsimran for a SIX the very next ball. He is making MI pay for those earlier dropped chances. Mishits one and that's gone high up in the night sky and Bosch takes the catch!!

Prabhsimran Singh c Corbin Bosch b Shardul Thakur 57(32)

Bosch back in the attack and Prabhsimran goes after him with a SIX OVER EXTRA COVER!! Tries a ramp shot next and it falls just short of an on-rushing fielder. Back to back singles follow. And Prabhsimran notches up his fifty. 

PBKS 100/1 after 11 overs

Raghu will continue and Prabhsimran whacks the second delivery with a slog sweep over the ropes for a SIX!! Follows that with another slog sweep for SIX MORE!! "If you have to hit, then you have to go for it. Obviously, cricket has definitely become faster, so scoring 250 runs is not that difficult anymore,” Singh had said last year. And we are witnessing an example of that here. 

PBKS 89/1 after 10 overs

Will Jacks introduced and Connolly drives for a four. Tilak near the boundary puts in a valiant effort but can't keep it in. Bowler makes a comeback with 3 dots on the trot. Connolly ends the over with four more. Finds the gap at backward point for 4!!

PBKS 76/1 after 9 overs

Spin is in as the leggie Raghu Sharma is introduced. Starts with a single off the first couple of deliveries. AAAND CONNOLLY WITH A SIX!! Overpitched and gets duly punished. 9 from this one.

PBKS 67/1 after 8 overs 

Bosch, who took 4 wickets vs RCB in the last match, into the attack now. Yields two singles from the first couple of deliveries. Prabhsimran almost plays the ball straight into the hands of the bowler on the followthrough but Bosch can't hold onto it.

PBKS 58/1 after 7 overs

Chahar will bowl the last over of the powerplay and after a dot, Chahar's yorker goes past everyone to go for 4 byes!! That was too good a ball for everyone. AAAND NEXT BALL, HE STRIKES THE REQUIRED TARGET AS ARYA'S STUMPS ARE SHATTERED!!

Priyansh Arya b Deepak Chahar 22(17)

Shardul, often a partnership-breaker, handed the ball in the penultimate over of the powerplay and Prabhsimran puls but gets a single. Arya on strike and he mistimes another shot which falls safely. He is playing with fire at the moment. Prabhsimran flicks the next ball to short fine leg for a four as the runs keep flowing. Picks up the next ball and grabs four more!! And another boundary to end the over.

PBKS 46/0 after 5 overs

Bumrah to bwol the 4th and Arya lofts the first ball for a boundary. Goes again and this time, it's in the air but lands safely. Arya is going at everything and according to Brad Haddin, he still has untapped potential. Haddin had one question when he boarded the flight to India in March—how would Arya show up in his second season, when opponents arrive having studied him. The second-season syndrome is not to be overlooked. Bowlers talk. Plans get made. What he and Ricky Ponting found in Chandigarh was not what they had been bracing for. “He has matured a lot. He’s something special—he can do things that other batters can’t. We got a taste of that last year. He’s got a real understanding of the game now and how the game’s panning out in front of him. And at the moment, he’s still untapped.”

PBKS 31/0 after 4 overs

On to the third and Chahar will continue and he is crucnched off the very first ball by a single by Arya. The next couple of deliveries yield just a single as the MI bowler looks to end over on a high. He does so with 4 dots to end.

PBKS 21/0 after 3 overs

Bumrah brings himself in the attack. Prabhsimran starts with a boundary and he was almost gone the next ball but Naman Dhir has inexplicably dropped him at the slip!! And to add insult to injury, the batter spanks the very next ball for another boundary!!! Former India player Mohammad Kaif had said this malaise of dropping catches was not something new to this edition of the IPL but it has been happening in other seasons as well, adding that tired players as well as less focus on fielding is to blame for them. 

PBKS 16/0 after 2 overs

Here come the two openers for Punjab, Prabhsimran Singh and Priyanshi Arya. Deepak Chahar is marking his run up so he'll be starting with the new ball. And Arya goes after the bowling right from the off, blasting a four off the second ball. Follows that up with a single. Bit of width and Arya ends the over with 4 more!!

PBKS 7/0 after 1 over

Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya won't be a part of the match while Allah Ghazanfar also misses out while Sherfane Rutherford and Shardul Thakur replaces them. For Punjab, Harpreet Brar, Xavier Bartlett and Azmatullah Omarzai all come in.

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Mayank Rawat, Robin Minz, Krish Bhagat, Trent Boult

Punjab Kings: Vijaykumar Vyshak, Harpreet Brar, Mitchell Owen, Vishnu Vinod, Praveen Dubey

Ryan Rickelton(w), Naman Dhir, Tilak Varma, Sherfane Rutherford, Will Jacks, Raj Bawa, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah(c), Raghu Sharma

Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh(w), Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer(c), Suryansh Shedge, Shashank Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

Shreyas Iyer: We would have bowled first as well. The wicket looks a bit drier. Still don't know how the pitch will play so just being positive about it. We should stop thinking about what has gone wrong. We have to think about being in good shape and having a positive mindset. Brar, Bartlett and Azmat come in.

Jasprit Bumrah: We have decided to bowl first. We saw the last game and felt maybe with the cold weather coming down the wicket will settle down. I didn't think that I will be a Test captain before becoming MI captain (smiles). As much as we can, we can three games left and we want to enjoy and maybe ruffle a few teams. Surya is not here for personal reasons and Allah is not there as well.

We are moments away from the toss and here come the two captains, Jasprit Bumrah for MI and Shreyas Iyer for Punjab. The coin goes up and Mumbai Indians win the  toss, opt to bowl first vs Punjab Kings

The last time MI met PBKS was back in April where Mumbai posted 195/6, courtesy of a century by Quinton de Kock and half century by Naman Dhir. Chasing, Prabhsimran Singh slammed 80 while skipper Shreyas Iyer notched up 66 as Punjab romped to a 7-wicket win in just 16.3 overs

A kid with a unique action bowled yorkers at will. That same kid, now a legend of the game will lead the Blue & Gold in Dharamshala.

A journey to be proud of, Captain Jasprit! ? pic.twitter.com/QCi1X4HhDy

— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) May 14, 2026

Mumbai Indians (MI) head coach Mahela Jayawardene admitted the five-time champions were “not good enough” this season after their playoff hopes ended with a narrow two-wicket defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Raipur on Sunday.

“It’s disappointing, we’ve had our opportunities, we were not good enough, we were not consistent enough with the ball, with the bat and that showed the margins,” Jayawardene said after the match.

“I think, you know, we were probably 2-3 wins away from being in the same group of contenders to get into that playoff, but we didn’t get those wins and today was another classic example that we were short,” he added.

AM Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Mitchell Santner, Naman Dhir, Raghu Sharma, Raj Bawa, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult, Will Jacks, Shardul Thakur (traded in from LSG), Sherfane Rutherford (traded in from GT), Mayank Markande (traded in from KKR).

Arshdeep Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harnoor Singh Pannu, Harpreet Brar, Lockie Ferguson, Marco Jansen, Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Owen, Musheer Khan, Nehal Wadhera, Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Pyla Avinash, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Suryansh Shedge, Vishnu Vinod, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Xavier Bartlett, Yash Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal.

Cooper Connolly (Rs 3 crore), Ben Dwarshuis (Rs 4.40 crore), Pravin Dubey (Rs 30 lakhs)

Quinton de Kock (Rs 1 crore), Danish Malewar (Rs 30 lakhs), Mohammad Izhar (Rs 30 lakhs), Atharva Ankolekar (Rs 30 lakhs), Mayank Rawat (Rs 30 lakhs)

The Mumbai Indians were eliminated from the Indian Premier League (IPL) play-offs’ contention after their narrow 2-run defeat against the Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Raipur on Sunday. With RCB needing 15 from the last over, a lot of eyebrows were raised when MI skipper Suryakumar Yadav gave the ball to the relative inexperienced Raj Angad Bawa. The youngster started well, even taking the wicket of Romario Shepherd but he gave away too many extras which ultimately saw RCB win the match.

Former India player Aakash Chopra also questioned Mumbai’s decision of giving the ball to Bawa in the last over instead of Afghanistan’s Allah Ghazanfar who had an over left in his quota. He also failed to understand why Mumbai would bring Raghu Sharma in as an Impact Player but not use him.

Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh to host games on

• May 16, 2026 – Punjab Kings vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Punjab Kings’ away games

• May 23, 2026: Lucknow Super Giants vs Punjab Kings- Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow

Kolkata Knight Riders vs Mumbai Indians in Kolkata on May 20

Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai on May 24

Qualifier 1 – May 26 – HPCA Stadium, Dharamshala
Eliminator – May 27 – New International Cricket Stadium, New Chandigarh
Qualifier 2 – May 29 – New International Cricket Stadium, New Chandigarh
Final – May 31 – Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad

“MI looks at a different side when Rohit scores runs. When Rohit gets going, it feels like everyone in MI gets energised. Also, if Hardik and Suryakumar Yadav don’t play the game, it’s not right to go back to Rohit Sharma as captain just because no one is there. I am not even sure if he’ll accept captaining the side,” Badrinath said on his YouTube channel.