ANI
Mumbai
Arshdeep’s fearless final over sealed a 13-run victory for Punjab Kings (PBKS) against Mumbai Indians (MI) at Wankhede Stadium on Saturday in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023.
On their home turf, MI seemed set in a stiff chase of 215. With 16 needed of the final six balls, they however were stifled by India seamer Arshdeep, who condeded just two runs and bowling Tilak Varma and Nehal Wadhera as PBKS coasted to victory. Arshdeep returned figures of 4-0-29-4.
At the start, Arshdeep had opener Ishan Kishan brilliantly caught by Matthew Short in the second over of MI innings.
Despite losing opener Ishan Kishan early in their reply, Rohit Sharma’s 44 from 27 and Cameron Green’s 43-ball 67 kept Mumbai in the game.
Suryakumar Yadav (57 off 26 balls; 7x4s, 3x6s) then maintained the momentum with a rapid half-century as Mumbai reached 182-3 midway through the 18th over, needing a further 33 runs to win.
Yadav got into the groove quite early as he went on to score boundaries all over the field. He cracked a four off Chahar and then three fours in a row off Liam Livingstone before smacking a six each off Nathan Ellis and Sam Curran. Green then took the attacking approach hitting six and a four off Yuzvendra Chahar as MI amassed 54 from the 12-15 overs phase.
Green went after Ellis, hitting him for a massive 108m six and a four-wide of long-off but the Australian pacer quickly bounced back to dismiss Green for a score of 67(43).
With 40 needed in final thre overs, Tim David struck a six off Arshdeep but the PBKS pacer got the huge wicket of Yadav, caught at mid-wicket.
With 16 needed in the last over, Arsheep gave away just one off the first two balls. He then went on a stump-breaking streak, cleaning up Varma and Impact Player Wadhera off consecutive balls, breaking the middle stumps on cracking yorkers. He couldn’t get his hat trick but gave away just one run of the next two as PBKS won the match.
Earlier, Curran smashed 55 off just 29 balls before falling to England team-mate Jofra Archer as Punjab reached 214-8.
Punjab’s innings was stalling at 105-5 after 15 overs but they went on to smash 109 runs off the next six, including Curran’s spritely half-century and 41 from just 28 balls by Harpreet Singh Bhatia.
Scores: PBKS: 214/8 (Sam Curran 55, Harpreet Singh 41, Piyush Chawla 2/15) beat MI: 201/6 (Cameron Green 67, Suryakumar Yadav 57, Arshdeep Singh 4/29) by 13 runs.
