Chasing 79 runs between skipper Lokesh Rahul (60 not out) and veteran Chris Gayle (43 not out) for the second wicket, Punjab Kings defeated the five-time champions Mumbai Indians by nine wickets. Friday. Recorded the second win. Even after skipper Rohit Sharma’s 63-run knock, Mumbai Indians were bowled out for 131 for six. Punjab won by 132 wickets in 17.4 overs. Man of the match Lokesh Rahul hit three sixes and four boundaries in 52 balls while Gayle hit five fours and two sixes in 35 balls. Mayank Agarwal contributed 25 runs for Punjab and shared a 53-run partnership for the first wicket with Lokesh Rahul.
Earlier, Rohit had played 52 balls with five fours and two sixes. Suryakumar Yadav shared 79 runs for the third wicket. Suryakumar scored 33 off 27 balls. Mohammad Shami of Punjab Kings and Ravi Bishnoi who played their first match of the season, took two wickets for 21 runs in four overs. Deepak Hooda and Arshdeep Singh took one wicket each. Punjab Kings aggressively launched a small target chase. Rahul hit two boundaries against Krunal Pandya who came to bowl the second over and Mayank Agarwal hit six. Rahul Bumrah then sent the ball to the boundary. In the fourth over, Mayong scored two consecutive boundaries against Bolt. The team scored 45 without any loss in the powerplay.
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In the seventh over, Monac Krunal hit four of his worst balls to complete the team’s half-century. However, Suryakumar Yadav’s Mayank Agarwal was sent to the pavilion in the next over to give Rahul Chahar his first success. Mayank hit four boundaries and a six in 20 balls. After this, Rahul Chahar and Jayant Yadav stopped the Punjab Kings batsmen from scoring. However, Gayle eased the pressure by hitting two boundaries against Rahul Chahar in the 12th over and then Jayant in the 13th over. Lokesh Rahul then hit a six off Kieron Pollard for bowling, sending Gayle Jayant’s ball into the stadium.
After that, Rahul completed his 50-ball half-century in the 17th over of Bumrah. Gayle then hit a six off the bolt and turned the match over to Punjab, and it was successful Kusar Rahul who hit a six and then four runs in the same over. Earlier, Punjab captain Rahul Toss decided to bowl on a tough pitch for batting and his bowlers defended the decision. Mumbai batsmen struggled to score runs in the opening overs. South African wicketkeeper batsman Quinton Dykak scored once and failed to score three runs and in the second over he was caught by Deepak Hooda’s Moises Henriques.
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Mumbai’s first four innings came in the final over of the fifth over when Rohit Henriques drove the ball over the boundary. It was Mumbai’s only four at Powerplay and the team managed to score 21 runs for just one wicket in the first six overs. This is their second lowest score on Powerplay. Mumbai’s lowest score at Powerplay was three for 17 against Punjab in 2015. Ravi Bishnoi, who played his first match of the season, caught Ishaan Kishan on the last ball of the seventh over. He could only score six runs in an innings of 17 balls. Rohit scored two consecutive boundaries against Fabian Allen in the eighth over to accelerate the run. He bowled the first six of the innings in the next over of the bowler, which reduced the team to 49 for two after 10 overs.
Suryakumar Yadav then scored his first four against Arsdeep in the 11th over and hit the sixth over in the 13th over. He took one over and completed the 50-run partnership for the third wicket with Rohit. Rohit scored half-century in 40 balls in the second half of the 14th over. He hit another impressive four in this over of Bishnay. Bishnoi took the first delivery of Chris Gayle’s 17th over to end Suryakumar’s 33-run innings. After this, Allen gave the boundary a catch in the big hitting circle from Mohammed Shami’s delivery. Kieron Pollard was greeted by Arshadeep, who came to bowling in the 19th over, failed to read a slow ball by six but poor form Hardik Pandya and was caught in the boundary by scoring a run in four balls. Shami Krunal Pandya (03) took six wickets in the 20th over. Mumbai managed to score only 34 runs for the loss of four wickets in the last five overs.
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