Abu Dhabi: Hardik Pandya finally showed a glimpse of self-destruct when he brought Mumbai Indians back play-off opposition with defending champions beat Punjab Kings by six Wickets in an IPL meeting on Tuesday.
Hardik destroyed two crawling and six in the second from the back of fascinated by Mohammed Shami as his 40 did not get out of 30 balls of seeing MI snap three matches successfully hunted out the target of 136 at 19 overs.
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https://t.co/uf4GKVVude- IndianPremierLeague (@ipl) 1632851536000AURABH TIWAY (45 OFF 37) and Kieron Pollard (15 not come out) also played their role as Mumbai survived a few moments of anxiety before end up in winning notes.
Pollard who took two Wickets in the Punjab round hit six and four off young left Armer Armer Singh took 13 out of 18 more which helped hardik go to Jugulary against Shami.
It only helped that his last shot that ended as the maximum was to catch the Regulation that Deepak Hood dropped on the fence.
After this victory, MI reached fifth place with 10 points from 11 matches, while Punjab slumped to sixth.
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π½ #mivpbks https://t.co/jgwuyjqxBw- IndianPremierLeague (@ipl) 1632852428000Defending Total, Spinners Ravi Bishnoi get rid of Rohit Sharma (8) and Suryakumar Yadav (0) in successive shipments leaving MI Toterring at 16 for two .
The highlightsiwary and Quinton de Kock (27) match took the team for 30 for 2 in the powerplay.
Tierwaan relieves the pressure with the limit in the closing area, before taking four other off Nathan Ellis.
Dropped by Aiden Markram at the boundary line above 8, Tiwary dancing under the goal and stored Harpreet more mid-goal for the maximum to bring up 50.
De Kock, who was looking for a good, losing the bearing at 10 up when he dragged one to the stump, immediately after Interesting Mohammed Shami for four as Mi slipped to 62 for 3.
Tiwary and hardik pandya kept mi ββin hunt but walked dry with Arshdeep Singh taking steps off but Harpreet dropped the Indian allrounder to add frustration.
Needed 52 off 36, Tiwah was destroyed by Bishnoi mid-goal but he was immediately removed by Nathan Ellis.
Hardik then releases four and six on two off shami balls to look after the mi in hunting.
Need 29 in the last three overs, Polard criticized one across on an additional cover and then saved the next one longer-off.
Hardik then exploded in 19 more fascinated by Shami because he sent extensive delivery at one limit and then pulled in Midwicket before going up and down one longer-on to end the contest.
Previously, Markram shared a 61-run partnership with Deepak Hooda (28) to raise their value after they were reduced to 48 for 4 at 7.3 overs.
However, after South Africa returned the cottage in 16 more, Punjab could not print a single limit, managing a little 23 running at four overs.
Pollard (2/8) and bumrah (2/24) are choosing from bowlers but they are well supported by Krunal Pandya (1/24), Rahul Chahar (1/27) and Nathan Coulter-Nile (0/19).
Previously, Mandeep Singh (15) was the first to go as Krunal Pandya handled the first blow.
Pollard then removed Chris Gayle.
Two balls later, Pollard was picked up by Rahul for the 300 goal at the T20S after the batsman was drawn short from the length of direct delivery to the bumrah on the short feet of the short feet.
Read Alsokieron Pollard became the first player in the T20 Cricket for the aggregate of 300 Wickets, 10,000 Runskieron Pollard on Tuesday added another fur to a famous hat when he became the first player in the history of the T20 cricket for the aggregate of 10,000 walks and 300 wickets.
Then it produced the famous dip of the Yorker to trap Nicholas Pooran in front of the goal as Punjab slumped to 48 for four above 8.
Markram and Hooda then continued to tick the scoreboard, took a single from Chahar and the boundaries of occasional to take 90 to 4 in 14 overs.
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https://t.co/9etea3anbp- IndianPremierLeague (@ipl) 1632842425000punjab never gets momentum as a new human HarPreet brar struggling to negotiate the variations of bumrah and coulter-nil in the overs of death.
Hooda, desperate, then sent one in the air just to be captured by Pollard as PBKS ended with a score below par.