IPL 2025: Punjab Kings' blast, reached close to the final with a brilliant win, do or die for Mumbai Indians...

IPL 2025 PBKS vs MI: Punjab Kings easily defeated Mumbai Indians in IPL 2025. Shreyas Iyer's team has reached the top of the IPL points table with this win. Punjab Kings will get the benefit of this win in the IPL playoffs. He will now get to play the Qualifier One match. On the other hand, Mumbai Indians' title hopes are now stuck in a do-or-die situation. Now Hardik Pandya's team will get the trophy only when it wins at least three matches.

Punjab Kings faced Mumbai Indians on Monday in IPL 2025. Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and chose to bowl first, which was proved right by his bowlers. Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 184 for 7. Jaipur's Sawai Mansingh Stadium is known for big scores. In such a situation, the target of 185 runs was not very difficult. Punjab Kings also made it easy. The Punjab team won this match by 7 wickets with 9 balls to spare.

Punjab Kings got off to a good start chasing the target. Openers Priyansh Arya (62) and Prabhsimran Singh (13) added 34 runs. Prabhsimran was caught by Ashwani Kumar off Jasprit Bumrah in the fifth over. Mumbai Indians could not celebrate this wicket for long as Mumbai Indians then made a century partnership. Josh Inglis (73) and Priyansh Arya, who came at number three, ensured their team's victory by adding 109 runs. After the dismissal of Priyansh Arya and Josh English, captain Shreyas Iyer and Nehal Vadhera took the team to the target. Shreyas Iyer completed the formality of victory by hitting a six off the third ball of the 19th over.

Earlier, the Mumbai Indians team stagnated at a score of 184/7 due to not being able to capitalize on the good start. Mumbai had scored 81 runs for one wicket in 9.2 overs at one time. At that time it seemed that this team would score 200 but it did not happen due to the faltering middle order. Suryakumar Yadav scored the highest 57 runs for Mumbai. Opener Ryan Rickelton scored 27 and Rohit Sharma scored 24 runs. Captain Hardik Pandya scored 26, Naman Dheer scored 20 and Will Jacks scored 17 runs.

Mumbai will play the eliminator match on May 30

It can be said that except for Suryakumar Yadav, no batsman was able to convert his start into a long innings. Due to this, Mumbai Indians did not get the rhythm in batting which is necessary to score 200 runs. This was the last league match of the Mumbai Indians team. It won 8 out of its 14 matches and remained in the fourth position with 16 points. The team that remains in the fourth position will play the eliminator match on May 30. It will face Gujarat Titans or Royal Challengers Bangalore.

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