Mumbai Indians 216 for 4 (Kishan 75, Suryakumar 66, Ellis 2-34) beat Punjab Kings 214 for 3 (Livingstone 82*, Jitesh 49*, Chawla 2-29) by six wickets
The race to playoffs has certainly heated up.
Ishan Kishan goes aerial in his 75 off 41•BCCI
Mumbai had been 54 for two after the powerplay, as Rohit Sharma's inconsistent run continued - out for a three-ball duck in the present day - and Cameron Green fell after a cameo. Another 161 had been required at 11.50 an over when Impact Player Suryakumar joined Kishan. By then, Kishan had settled in, having raced to 26 off 15 with two fours and two sixes. Three overs later, the required fee had risen additional to 12.54. And that's when the carnage started.
Kishan went after Harpreet Brar to choose up 14 from the tenth over, after which mixed with Suryakumar to slam 14 extra off Rahul Chahar the subsequent. PBKS had been nonetheless very a lot in it, although, when MI had been 100 away with eight overs remaining, however then the turning level of the chase really arrived.
Suryakumar helped thrash 23 off a Sam Curran over - 6, 6, 4, 4 got here off consecutive authorized deliveries and this ultimate boundary bought him to his fifty from 23 deliveries. Soon after, Kishan focused Arshdeep Singh: 6, 4, 4, and the sport was virtually completed. Mumbai wanted simply 45 from 30 from that time on.
The match had appeared within the steadiness earlier within the day, when Matthew Short's battle ended. Jitesh got here in at No. 5, with Livingstone already set on the different finish. By the time the pair was completed, that they had slammed the final eight overs of Kings' innings for 115. Jofra Archer had given away solely 5 runs in his first over, however within the thirteenth, the 2 Kings batters belted 21, together with 4 leg-byes, off him.
Some luck went Jitesh's means when a prime edge flew over the short-third fielder and a heave fell wanting deep midwicket, however no such shut calls may cease him from going onerous on the bowlers.
At the opposite finish, Livingstone's knock included deft touches between level and quick third, in addition to forceful swat-pulls. And when Rohit introduced Archer again for the nineteenth over, Livingstone smacked three sixes in a row earlier than 5 wides meant the over price 27. In all, Archer leaked 56 in 4 overs. Who knew then that Livingstone and Jitesh would ultimately end on the shedding facet. Some of the credit score for that also needs to go to Piyush Chawla.
Having gone for 14 off his first seven balls - together with three fours by Shikhar Dhawan - the skilled Chawla hit again within the eighth over of the innings. He tossed the ball up once more to ask Dhawan down the monitor, however this was a fallacious'un. Dhawan was crushed and stumped for an attacking 30. Chawla went on to place the lid on Kings' scoring over the subsequent few overs, ending with 2 for 29. That spell included refined adjustments of tempo and fixed use of variations; Short was his second sufferer, misreading a googly to be bowled for 27.
Livingstone and Jitesh bought collectively thereafter, however Chawla would nonetheless be one up on them come the tip of the sport.
Himanshu Agrawal is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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