Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings
Mumbai's batsmen are in a good rhythm now. Despite not being able to win against Chennai in the last match, Mumbai players batted well against Bengaluru and Delhi in the previous two matches. The team scored 199 runs in 15.3 overs against Bengaluru and set a huge target of 235 runs against Mumbai and Delhi. This is why I am betting on Mumbai to win today's match. Hope the team doesn't disappoint me. Moreover, Punjab team is not in good form now.
Punjab today won the toss and decided to field. After 6 overs, Mumbai Indians managed to collect 54 runs by losing 1 wicket. Rohit and Suryakumar Yadav are batting responsibly. If Mumbai don't lose quick wickets then the team is sure to collect more than 200 in today's match as well.
Punjab Kings skipper won the toss and decided to bowl first but Punjab Kings bowlers did not take advantage as Mumbai Indians opener pair Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma got off to a great start. But Ishan Kishan did not bat very well and got out for only eight runs but Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav are batting responsibly for the team. The current state of play of Mumbai Indians looks like they can give Punjab Kings a target of 200 plus runs. If the target of 200 runs can be given to Punjab Kings by controlled bowling, maybe Mumbai Indians will have a chance to win against Punjab Kings.
I don't find today's pitch completely batting friendly. This is probably why the Mumbai batsmen have batted slowly from the beginning of the innings today, the Mumbai batsmen have batted very carefully. At the end of 10 overs, Mumbai's collection was 86 runs with the loss of one wicket. Rohit and SUryakumar Yadav batted responsibly. Rohit scored 36 runs from 25 balls and Yadav scored 78 runs from 53 balls.
Punjab's top order played very poorly today. The team lost wickets very quickly today. The team lost 4 wickets to collect only 14 runs. And the Punjab team lost the fifth wicket for 49 runs. At the end of 9 overs, Punjab's collection is 76 runs. Shashank Singh is batting brilliantly today. Shashank is unbeaten with 35 runs from 18 balls.
After losing 4 wickets for 14 runs, I don't imagine Punjab's batsmen to perform so well. After 16 overs, Punjab's collection is 165 runs. In the last 24 balls, Punjab players need to collect only 28 runs to win. The match is completely under Punjab's control now. I don't see any possibility that Punjab will lose this match.
Akash madhwal bowled a horrible over. He gave 24 runs in 1 over. And I would say that after this bad over, the match was completely taken over by Punjab. With some controlled bowling, the match would have been very competitive in the end.
Shashank Singh was dismissed with 41 runs from 25 balls. Even then we saw Ashutosh Sharma's aggressive batting. Ashutosh Sharma is unbeaten with 59 runs off just 25 balls. Punjab is going to win today because of this great batting.