IPL 2022 Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings Live Cricket Score: Mumbai will lock horns with Punjab in Pune on Wednesday. IPL 2022 MI vs PBKS Live Cricket Score: Openers Shikhar Dhawan and Mayank Agarwal hit fine half-centuries to propel Punjab Kings to 198 for five against Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier League match on Wednesday. Dhawan (70) and Agarwal (52) shared 97 runs for the opening stand in 9.3 overs to lay the foundation for Punjab’s total after being sent into bat. Wicketkeeper-batter Jitesh Sharma (30 not out off 15) and Masood Shahrukh Khan (15 off 6) played short little cameos to take Punjab Kings close to the 200-run mark.
Playing XIs
Mumbai Indians XI: Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Dewald Brevis, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Kieron Pollard, Jaydev Unadkat, Murugan Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Tymal Mills, Basil Thampi.
Punjab Kings XI: Mayank Agarwal(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Jonny Bairstow(w), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, Odean Smith, Shahrukh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Vaibhav Arora, Arshdeep Singh.
IPL 2022 MI vs PBKS playing XI, match prediction, pitch report: Who will be in Mumbai, Punjab playing 11
Another mix up out there in the middle and Kieron Pollard is run-out for 10 runs.
Suryakumar Yadav picks the slower one and dispatches it over deep mid-wicket with a mighty heave.
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If true challenge of a bowler is how he bounces back from a severe hammering, Rahul Chahar won it hands down. After being looted for four sixes by Baby AB, all eyes were on him when he came to bowl to Suryakumar Yadav. Unsurprisingly, he went for his favourite bamboozler: the back-of-the-hand leg break. It’s quite a ball. For all purposes, it seems like a googly, delivered from back of the hand, but he gets it to spin like a leg break. A surprised Yadav was beaten, playing inside the line. And he pursed his lips, muttered something to his partner. Chahar rinsed and repeated it again to same result. In the past, we have seen him beat the likes of MS Dhoni, AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli with that ball. The best reaction though probably came from Karun Nair during 2019 Ranji Trophy quarters. After being beaten by that special leg break, he flashed a wide smile, looked at his partner, and mimicked the back-of-hand release. In his last over, he faced off against his old team-mate Keiron Pollard. A googly led to a muffled cry for lbw and he gave Pollard the two-V-signed ' I have you under my sight' look. Pollard smiled and said something. Next ball, he took up the challenge and rushed out but Chahar had cleverly floated it well outside off. Just a single. Pollard reached other end and more playful banter ensued.
- Sriram Veera
A mix up between the wickets ends in Tilak getting run out. Suryakumar Yadav wrists this to the right of mid-wicket, Tilak Varma takes off for the single but SKY sends him back, and he is well short of the crease.
The Dewald Brevis show comes to an end here in Pune as he falls for 49. What a knock that was from the youngster. Odean Smith has got the dangerman Dewald Brevis.
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Ishan Kishan is a good case of how performance analysts zoom in on a weakness and how that opens up cracks elsewhere in the game. This IPL, most teams started to tie him up with deliveries nipping back from middle and leg. Tuck him up, cramp him, and without the fluidity of wristy flicks, he has been pushed into awkward jabs. As often happens, cracks began to happen elsewhere. With his mind on that delivery, he was caught out, reaching out late to a delivery outside off stump, and edging it. It was a ball swinging away in the corridor and probably had it been bowled in the last season, he might well have driven it or at least not reached out late like this, and lunging away from his body. May be. Definitely not this season though. Now is when he has to prove his worth. Can he find a way to bounce back?
- Sriram Veera
Dewald Brevis pulls this just over the deep square leg fielder for a maximum. Ten runs came from Odean Smith's first over. Mumbai need 147 runs in 78 balls.
Back-to-back boundaries for Brevis! Arshdeep bowled a tad outside off stump; Dewald Brevis gets on top of the bounce and nails the drive through covers for four. Next ball, Brevis drives straight past the bowler for four more.
Vaibhav Arora first with a fine catch and then the wicket of Ishan Kishan, he's on a roll here in Pune. Both Mumbai Indians openers are back in the hut. Great over from Vaibhav Arora, getting the wicket of Ishan Kishan and conceding only 2 runs of it, to swing the momentum for Punjab!
Kagiso Rabada has the last laugh after being hit for a six, and the Mumbai skipper has to depart. Rohit Sharma goes for the pull but gets the top edge, goes high in the night sky and Vaibhav Arora takes a well-judged catch at short fine leg.
Rohit Sharma smashes Kagiso Rabada for back-to-back boundaries. Mumbai Indians need 178 runs in 108 balls.
Great start from Mumbai Indians. Twelve runs came from Vaibhav Arora's first over. Mumbai need 189 runs in 114 balls.
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Basil Thampi had one critic. Rather one very concerned individual. His mother. When his pace in a Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament in 2017 excited everyone his mother asked him why he was “unnecessarily swinging his arm so fast!” He once told this newspaper, “She was worried I would hurt myself. Bowl slowly, she told me!” Maternal love hasn’t prevented him from trying to decapitate batsmen’s toes with his yorkers that were developed during his tennis-ball six-a-side days on small grounds. And he honed that skill further when he went to MRF pace academy under the tutelage of the legendary Glenn McGrath. The skill was seen in patches tonight. He had just bled two sixes in the final overs and the remaining three deliveries seemed set for more mayhem from Shahrukh Khan. Instead, Thampi rallied back with a perfect yorker that tailed in late from outside off to beat the big swing and crashed into the off stump. Hopefully, his mother wasn’t looking at his arm but at the other end at the stumps.
- Sriram Veera
Mumbai Indians opening batters Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma are in the middle. Vaibhav Arora will start the proceedings for Punjab Kings. Will Mumbai chase down this imposing total to open their account in the IPL? Here we go!
An explosive opening stand between Mayank Agarwal (52) and Shikhar Dhawan (70), followed by Jitesh Sharma's cameo and some hard-hitting from Shahrukh Khan at the end, take Punjab closer to 200. 47 runs from the last three overs and Punjab score 198 at the end of 20 overs! Will they get their third win of the campaign tonight or will Mumbai chase this and get off the mark! Stay tuned for the chase.