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Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma and others members of the playing XI were fined for maintaining a slow over rate during their IPL game against Punjab Kings here. Punjab Kings won the match by 12 runs on Wednesday night.
Pollard, Tilak's dismissals scuttle Mumbai's chase as they lose 5 out of 5; Punjab win by 12 runsPUNE: Unless they stage a spectacular turnaround from here, the Mumbai Indians can kiss their chances in IPL 2022 goodbye. Chasing 199 on a batting paradise at the MCA Stadium here on Wednesday night against Punjab Kings, the five-time champions tried hard, but finished at 186 for nine to go down in a high-scoring thriller by 12 runs. AS IT HAPPENEDThis is now MI's fifth defeat in their first five games, and equals their worst start in IPL 2014, when they lost five in a row at the beginning of the tournament. For Punjab, this was their third win, and they have now climbed to No 3 on the table with six points after five games. Though he was involved in running out Tilak Varma (36, 20b, 3x4, 2x6) and Keiron Pollard (10) at crucial stages in the chase, Suryakumar Yadav (43, 30b, 1X4, 4X6) kept MI in the hunt with his sparking strokeplay. However, his dismissal in the penultimate over, caught at long on off Kagiso Rabada, signalled the end of MI's challenge.
On Wednesday, Rohit Sharma became the second Indian batter to reach 10,000 T20 runs. The Mumbai Indians (MI) captain reached the huge milestone during his side's Match 23 fixture against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in the ongoing IPL 2022 season. The batter smashed a six off Kagiso Rabada's to seal the unique feat but lost his wicket in the next delivery itself as he got a massive top-edge to Vaibhav Arora at short fine leg. The only other Indian batter to reach this milestone is none other than Virat Kohli. Meanwhile, other than Rohit and Kohli, only Chris Gayle, Shoaib Malik, Kieron Pollard, Aaron Finch and David Warner have reached 10,000 in T20 cricket.
Matt Parkinson admits he was “gutted” to spend another winter watching England from the boundary edge and believes county pitches are holding back the development of spinners.
Five-time Indian Premier League champions Mumbai Indians crashed to their fifth consecutive defeat on Wednesday, losing by 12 runs to Punjab Kings.
IPL 2022, Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings Score Updates: Dewald Brevis and Tilak Varma have steadied Mumbai Indians' (MI) ship in their chase of 199 against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in match 23 of the of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) season at the MCA Stadium in Pune. This comes after MI had lose two wickets in as many over, despite a bright start. Rohit Sharma once again failed to capitalise on a good start, losing his wicket to Kagiso Rabada. Ishan Kishan also failed to make an impact as he was removed by Vaibhav Arora in the next over. Earlier, PBKS managed to post a total of 198 for five against MI. After being put into bat first, openers Shikhar Dhawan (70) and Mayank Agarwal (52) hit half-centuries to give PBKS a solid platform, before Jitesh Sharma also played a fine knock of 30 not out. For MI, Basil Thampi took two wickets while Jasprit Bumrah, Jaydev Unadkat and M Ashwin also bagged a wickets each. Earlier, MI won the toss and elected to bowl first. (LIVE SCORECARD)
Wasim Jaffer is known for his erudite analysis of the game and on Wednesday, the former India opener spoke bout Mumbai Indians' decision to not play overseas batter Tim David. The Singapore international is a season T20 hand, plying his trade in several franchise T20 leagues all over the world.
Mumbai Indians needed a strong performance from its bowlers against Punjab Kings, but the bowlers failed to keep the runs in check against Punjab Kings as Mayank Agarwal's team scored 198 runs after being put in to bat on Wednesday. But one man shone bright in Mumbai's blue jersey and that was premier paceman Jasprit Bumrah.