IPL 2025: Punjab Kings Book Top-Two Birth, Mumbai Indians left cricket news to fight in eliminator

In a high stake confrontation at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians faced the IPL 2025 league on foot matches. The winner of the game was guaranteed a place in a top-two finish and qualifier 1. Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and selected for the first field, banking on the benefit of chasing under the lights. Mumbai Indians posted a competitive total of 184 for seven for significant contribution to Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya. Suryakumar was once again a standout artist, scoring 57 runs in 39 balls. In this process, he broke Sachin Tendulkar’s long-term record to become the most run-scorer of Mumbai Indians in an IPL season. Hardik Pandya pasted only 15 balls with a quickfire 26, providing very important acceleration in the death overs. Opener Ryan Ryan Ricelton gave MI a positive start with 27 runs off 20 balls, helping Arshdeep Singh reach 52 for one in Powerplay despite facing a possible magic. Kyle Jaimisson, with his debut for Punjab Kings, was taken by Ricelton for some early borders, but settled as the progress of the innings.

Rohit Sharma played a stable hand with 24 runs off 21 balls, including a classy straight hit on mid-off against Marco Jansen. However, Jenson got better than Ricelton in the sixth over, inspired by an exhibition shot that was caught in the mid-on. Harpreet Barr, filling for the injured Yuzvendra Chahal, continued his effective form by removing Rohit Sharma. Nehal Wadhera took a good catch on the long-on to complete the dismissal. Mumbai found themselves at a place harassing 106 for four in the 13th over. The wide lines of the Vijayakumar Vyas worked well in the middle overs, as they rejected both Will Jack and Tilak Verma in Quick Succession. But the tide in the 19th over changed when Mumbai scored 23 runs to Vyasak. Suryakumar and Naman Dhir (20 on 12th) played an important role in this late bounce.Quiz: Who is that IPL player? Despite the speed of motion, Arshdeep Singh bowled in a sensational final, scored only three runs and took two wickets to limit Mumbai to 184. Punjab Kings started chasing on an unstable note, in which Prabasimran Singh was lost for Jaspreet Bumrah for 13 runs in 16 balls. But a powerful 109 -run partnership between Priyash Arya and Josh Englandis completely changed the tide. Arya scored 62 runs before falling from Mitchell Santner, who claimed English wicket after a brilliant 73 off 42 balls. Captain Shres Iyer remained calm and created, chased with Nehal Vahera with an unbeaten 26 off 15 balls, who scored 2 runs by 2 runs. PBK reached the target in 18.3 overs.

With this result, Punjab Kings have secured a top-two finish in qualifier 1 and a place in qualifier 1, based on the result of tomorrow’s match between LSG and RCB. They will face either Gujarat Titans or Royal Challengers Bangalore. If RCB wins, they will finish in the top two and play PBK. If not, GT will take that second place and will face Punjab. Meanwhile, Mumbai Indians will play in Eliminator. Finishing in the top two provides a valuable cushion – if a team loses a qualifier 1, they get another chance against the eliminator winner in qualifier 2, which maintains their way to survive.