The Teams (From):
Punjab Kings:
Shikhar Dhawan (c), Arshdeep Singh, Baltej Singh, Rahul Chahar, Sam Curran, Rishi Dhawan, Nathan Ellis, Gurnoor Brar, Harpreet Brar, Harpreet Singh, Vidwath Kaverappa, Liam Livingstone, Mohit Rathee, Prabhsimran Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, M Shahrukh Khan, Jitesh Sharma, Shivam Singh, Matthew Short, Sikandar Raza, Atharva Taide.
Mumbai Indians:
Rohit Sharma (c), Jofra Archer, Arshad Khan, Jason Behrendorff, Dewald Brevis, Piyush Chawla, Tim David, Raghav Goyal, Cameron Green, Ishan Kishan, Duan Jansen, Chris Jordan, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Riley Meredith, Shams Mulani, Ramandeep Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Hrithik Shokeen, Tristan Stubbs, Arjun Tendulkar, Tilak Varma, Vishnu Vinod, Nehal Wadhera, Suryakumar Yadav.
Suddenly, Mumbai Indians’ dugout wore an anxious look—support staff chewing nails, Rohit Sharna gazing pensively into the distance, Cameron Green stroking his chin. Mumbai Indians had lost two of their set batsmen, Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan, in the space of an over, injecting hope for Punjab Kings. But Tilak Varma brought joy back to the Mumbai Indians dugout with a pair of humungous sixes off Arshdeep Singh, a pull and flick, and a scooped four, whittling down the required rate to 21 off 18 balls. There was a sense of effortless purpose about his stroke-making, a streak of nervelessness that has hallmarked his sudden spurt in age-group cricket. He had missed a slow bouncer the ball before the pulled-six, but when Arshdeep cranked up the pace, he quickly shuffled to the back-foot and pulled him sweetly. And fittingly, he wrapped up the chase with a thunderous six down the ground Arshdeep, a shot packed with both timing and power. Yadav and Kishan would walk away with the plaudits, but Varma’s 10-ball 26 not out too was influential in the context of the game. - Sandip G
SIX! Tilak Varma has done it! What a brilliant chase from Mumbai! They have chased down the total with 7 balls to spare!
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Single to end the over again and Mumbai need 12 from 12 balls now! Score after 18 overs, MI: 203/4
Tilak Varma hits Arshdeep Singh for a 6! Wow! What a shot this is! So despite losing a wicket, 16 come off the over. Score after 17 overs, MI: 194/4
Ishan Kishan is gone for 75(41) and Arshdeep Singh gets his man. Kishan is dismissed after a brilliant innings and he played a vital role in the game while chasing 215 runs, what an innings it is ! Mohali crowd is on its feet. Mumbai Indians are 178/4
OUT! TAKEN! A much-needed wicket this for Punjab and Suryakumar Yadav departs after a fantastic knock. It was short and slower in pace and Yadav makes room and tries to cut it. He, however, finds Arshdeep Singh at third man who jumps and takes a sharp catch. Score after 16 overs, MI: 178/3
Mumbai are on fire and Arshdeep Singh is being hammered. This time it is Ishan Kishan who hits it straight and Mumbai now need just 45 runs in the last 5 overs.
6 6 4 Wd 4 1 1 = 23 and what an over this has been. SKY gets to his fifty in just 23 balls. Yet another extraordinary innings from Suryakumar Yadav. This over from Sam Curran has turned the game on its head. Mumbai Indians need 77 runs in 42 balls| Score after 13 overs, MI: 138/2
FOUR! A boundary to spoil a good over from Nathan Ellis! This is a tad bit full and into the stumps. Ishan Kishan whips this towards deep square leg for four runs. Ishan Kishan completes his half century, Suryakumar Yadav playing a cameo. MI 115/2 in 12 overs. Can they score 100 in the remaining 48 balls?
Ishan Kishan cuts loose and smashed Harpreet Brar for a FOUR! It was short and Kishan danced down the track and hammers it straight down the ground for a boundary. He ends the over with a six, slog-sweeps it all the way over deep mid-wicket for a six. Score after 10 overs, MI: 91/2
FOUR! SKY is underway with a boundary! It was short and on off from the bowler and Suryakumar Yadav rocks back and pulls it to deep mid-wicket for a boundary. Score after 7 overs, MI: 60/2
Nathan Ellis gets the big wicket on the final ball of the Powerplay! It was on the leg and Green made room and hit it uppishly towards deep mid-wicket. Rahul Chahar takes it in the deep. Punjab celebrate. Suryakumar Yadav, right handed bat, comes to the crease. Score after 6 overs, MI: 54/2
Rishi Dhawan was un-hittable in his first two overs. He alternated between good length and full length, besides extracting marginal movement both ways. He pinched out Rohit Sharma in the first over and beat Ishan Kishan multiple times. The lines were stifling, just outside the off-stump when hitting the full length and on top of the off-stump with good-length balls. Consequently, his first two overs cost just three runs, and Shikhar Dhawan rewarded him with a third over. Everything went awry thereafter. The ball refused to swing; the line was no longer suffocating, the lengths went off-kilter. Isban Kishan thumped his length balls for a couple of sixes and Cameron Green slapped him between backward point and third man. He ended up leaking 17 runs and handing the impetus to Mumbai’s batsmen. - by Sandip G
FOUR! Cameron Green hits this ball from Sam Curran who goes far too short and bowls it outside off. Green pulls this towards deep mid-wicket for four runs. 8 from it. Score after 4 overs, MI: 32/1
Ishan Kishan is taking the attack to Arshdeep Singh, after a cut he hits it on the off. Three boundaries in the over makes it 16 from the over. Just what Mumbai wanted after losing their captain in the first. Score after 2 overs, MI: 21/1
Disastrous start for Mumbai in chase of 215. Rishi Dhawan bowls this on a length and wide outside the off pole. Rohit Sharma reaches for this and looks to go over the off side field but slices this towards third man. Matthew Short takes the start. Score after 1 over, MI: 5/1
As soon as Jitesh Sharma walloped the Mumbai Indians for a cracking 49, his coach from last year at Punjab Kings Anil Kumble called for him to be selected to the Indian T20 team. “He is a fantastic player. It’s good that he didn’t get out. Some times, he looks for the freakish lap shots over short fine, today he didn’t. Went down town and retained great shape. He deserves a call up to India. Selectors will surely be looking at him as a man who comes at the back end and finishes the innings,” Kumble said on Jio Cinema.
2 runs off the last ball and Punjab Kings end with 214/3 in 20 overs. Jitesh Sharma is unbeaten on 49 while Livingstone is not out on 82 off 42. This brilliant partnership of 119 from 53 balls has put Punjab in pole position to win the game. Can Mumbai chase down 215? Stay tuned for live updates
WHAT A SHOT! Liam Livingstone is making his mark as Jofra Archer bowls this back of a length and outside the off stump. Liam Livingstone opens his stance and slaps this over deep mid-wicket for six runs. But he is not done yet and smashes two more. There is more misery in store for Archer as he bowls five wides. 6 6 6 1 1 Wd5 2 = 27 from the over. Score after 19 overs, PBKS: 205/3
Jitesh Sharma is proving why he is such a multi-dimensional batter as he hits Akash Madhwal's yorker towards deep backward point for four runs. Even the bowler looks helpless. Score after 18 overs, PBKS: 178/3
SIX! Jitesh Sharma gets hold of this one from Arshad Khan who went full once again and all Sharma did was clear his front foot out of the way and goes straight back over the bowler's head of six runs. He ends the over with a four and that makes it 14 from it. Score after 17 overs, PBKS: 166/3
It was not easy being Jofra Archer on Wednesday. Gradually grooving back to his peak pace, he was far from the hostile speed-machine that he could be. Nonetheless, he still troubled batsmen with his smarts and variations. Only that he was ridiculously unfortunate. After a four off a free-hit, he managed a top-edged off Jitesh Sharma but it eluded the fielder. A wide ball later, Sharma swung again and miscued a heave. Arshan Khan seemed to have covered the ground and gotten under the ball, but he misjudged the flight and ended up conceding a four. The last ball of the over, he foxed Sharma with a slow cutter, but it brushed his thigh and trickled to the ropes. Surprisingly, he mostly dealt with slower balls in his first three overs. One touched 152 kph, another 144kph, but the rest barely nudged 125kph. That was not all, he dropped a catch at short third-man and let a boundary burst through his palms.- Sandip G
Liam Livingstone gets the measure of Arshad Khan and hits a FOUR! Another boundary to end the over! This is clever batting! A full delivery and around off. Livingstone stays deep in his crease and just steers in the gap through the backward point region for a boundary. 50 partnership between Livingstone and Jitesh Sharma, in just 25 balls. Suddenly 200 looks achievable. Score after 15 overs, PBKS: 145/3
N1 4 4 Wd 4 1 1 L4 = 21 from the over. Jitesh Sharma is going all guns blazing and is smashing Archer all over the park. Jitesh Sharma has completed 2000 T20 runs! . A really expensive over by Jofra Archer. Score after 13 overs, PBKS: 120/3
Piyush Chawla strikes! This is his 14th wicket in the season. It was tossed up nicely on off and Short went for the big hoick across the line but misses it altogether. It is a googly and the ball knocks over the stump. Matthew Short's struggle comes to an end. Score after 12 overs, PBKS: 99/3
FOUR! Liam Livingstone gets Punjab a much-needed boundary! Piyush Chawla bowls this short and quick at 115 kmph, and Livingstone plays it delicately past third man for four runs. Score after 10 overs, PBKS: 78/2
Thrice Shikhar Dhawan leapt out of the crease to hit Piyush Chawla down the ground. All three times, he was successful. But the fourth time Dhawan attempted the ploy, Chawla exacted revenge. On this occasion, Chawla went slightly wider, and slowed the ball a bit. It was not lavishly tossed up, but still Dhawan misjudged the flight. Midway through the charge, Dhawan realised that he would not reach the pitch of the ball. He looked to shove the ball but ended up pushing the air, as the ball spun away and beat him. He was duly stumped. Dhawan gave an I-have-seen-it-all-before look. That’s the beauty of Chawla, batsmen know what he could do, yet often fall for his tricks. As Dhawan walked past him, Chawla casually smirked, the smirk of a supremely self-aware bowler. - Sandip G
Matthew Short loves to pull. Anything slightly short, and Short would stand tall on the crease and without shifting the weight onto his back-foot, he would pull with a disdain. He nervously survived the first three balls from Arshad Khan, and then the left-handed seamer went shot and Short quickly unleashed a fearsome pull in front of square. But Khan continued to gift him short balls. In the next over of Khan, he was so overeager to latch onto a short one that he ended up pulling much before the ball had arrived and ended up toe-ending it. Encouraged, Khan pounded another short ball, from around the stumps and angling in. Short just stood where he was and hefted Khan over the square-leg with the ease of swatting a fly. No one ever bothered to bowl another short ball at him, not even the skiddy Archer. - Sandip G
The drop by Archer does not cost much as Chawla gets Dhawan stumped. The Punjab skipper has to depart and this is a big wicket for Mumbai! Score after 8 overs, PBKS: 65/2
FOUR! Two in a row! Shikhar Dhawan punishes Piyush Chawla for tossing it full. Arshad Khan misfields in the deep. Punjab are 50 for the loss of one wicket after the Powerplay.
SIX! It was a short ball and Matthew Short is ready and pulls it all the way over deep square leg for a maximum. The last ball is a FOUR! What an end to the over! Short has made it a 12-run over! Score after 4 overs, PBKS: 35/1
Cameron Green goes full, on the off and Dhawan heaves it and the ball goes off the inside half of his blade through mid-wicket for a boundary. Good over from Green, just 6 from it. Score after 3 overs, PBKS: 23/1
CAUGHT BEHIND! Prabhsimran Singh is gone! Arshad Khan gets a wicket in his third delivery. Short and outside off, Prabhsimran tries to cut it but gets an outside edge. Score after 2 overs, PBKS: 17/1
Prabhsimran and Dhawan are at the crease. Prabhsimran is on strike. Green will open the attack. Let's Play! And a four off the last ball of the over and that is a good way to end it. Score after 1 over, PBKS: 9/0
MI impact subs: Suryakumar Yadav, Dewald Brevis, Vishnu Vinod, Ramandeep Singh, Tristan Stubbs.
PBKS impact subs: Nathan Ellis, Sikandar Raza, Atharva Taide, Mohit Rathee, Shivam Singh.
Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Cameron Green, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Jofra Archer, Piyush Chawla, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Arshad Khan
Punjab Kings (Playing XI): Prabhsimran Singh, Shikhar Dhawan(c), Matthew Short, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma(w), Sam Curran, Shahrukh Khan, Harpreet Brar, Rishi Dhawan, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh c
Mumbai Indians have won the toss and have opted to field. Rohit Sharma speaks: "I asked Shikhar Dhawan what to do. He said bowl first, so we will bowl first. It's a good pitch, we have chased down targets pretty well, so will stick to our strengths. You always want to have a score in front of you on such pitches. It's important to keep the balance, we have played enough IPL games, things can change quickly. You can see how tight the table is. It's important to focus on what we can do as a team. It's all about coming fresh into the game and try to execute your plans. We have one change, Merdith is injured. Akash Madwal is in."
"It's pitch number 4, this is one of the highest scoring venues. It's the same surface that was used for PBKS vs RCB, match 27. There's some good coverage of grass on the wicket, but there are some bad patches, so it might be two-paced. Teams winning the toss are expected to chase here" - Simon Katich.
These two teams have battled each other 30 times since IPL since 2008, and it is equal with both MI and PBKS winning 15 times each. Interestingly, in the last six meetings, PBKS has won four times, including the reverse fixture earlier this season
It has been raining in Mohali for past couple of days. Since morning it has been cloudy and there is a persistent rain. There is an 84% chance of rain during the day and 22% at night. And since it is an evening match the encounter is likely to be affected by rain.
MI skipper Rohit's form, though, is the biggest concern for the five-time IPL champions and much would depend on the India captain on Wednesday to shore up his side, after contributing just three runs in the match against the Royals.
Punjab Kings, are known to play aggressive cricket, though their biggest drawback is an unreliable top order. Barring Shikhar Dhawan and to an extent his opening partner Prabhsimran Singh, very few PBKS batters have contributed enough to their overall totals
Former India cricketer Mohammed Kaif stressed Mumbai Indians' never doubted SKY's talent and skills despite a dud show in the first half of the tournament and the Mumbaikar has started paying back. Mumbai Indians always had faith in Suryakumar Yadav. They have been backing him right from the start and no one had an iota of doubt over his talent and capability. With his knock against RR, he's proven his worth. SKY has once again proved why he's rated so highly as a batter. These are good signs for Mumbai Indians."
The win was crafted by Singapore-born Australian cricketer Tim David, who smashed three sixes on the trot in the final over during his 14-ball unbeaten 45 to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. While there were vital contributions from India's T20 specialist batter Suryakumar Yadav (55), tall Australian all-rounder Cameron Green (44), Ishan Kishan (28) and Tilak Varma (29 not out), none could match the ferocity of David's strokes.
The Mumbai team is currently placed seventh with eight points from eight matches and things are not looking great for Rohit Sharma's side. The win against Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium on April 30, though, would have instilled a fair bit of confidence in the MI team after it chased down a massive 212 with three balls to spare to earn two valuable points.
A win will give MI the much-needed push on the points table, while a loss will see them slip further and chart a familiar course like the previous edition. MI had finished 10th and last in the previous edition.
Punjab Kings predicted playing XI: Prabhsimran Singh, Shikhar Dhawan (c), Atharva Taide, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Jitesh Sharma (wk), M Shahrukh Khan, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh. Impact player – Mohit Rathee
Mumbai Indians Predicted XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Ishan Kishan (wk), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Tim David, Nehal Wadhera, Piyush Chawla, Jofra Archer, Hrithik Shokeen, Jason Behrendorff Impact player – Arshad Khan
Mumbai Indians will travel to Mohali tonight to take on tyhe Punjab Kings in the second match of double header Wednesday. Both teams are on a high after chasing down 200+ targets in their previous encounters. Punjab did it against the in-form Chennai Super Kings in their own backyard and Mumbai bamboozled Rajasthan Royals. Who blinks first tonight?