The MI batter Suryakumar Yadav has been impressive during the match against Punjab Kings and scored 78 runs on 53 deliveries at Wankhede Stadium. Punjab Kings won the toss and opted to bowl first.
Suryakumar Yadav has played four matches in the season amassing 111 runs with a strike rate of 173.44 before playing in the match against PBKS.
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Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians are set to play in the 33rd match of the IPL 2024 schedule at MYS International Cricket Stadium which is the home ground for PBKS in this season.
This is the fourth match of this season in the stadium. Punjab Kings secured 8th position while Mumbai Indians secured 9th position in the IPL 2024 points table.
Coming to the match, Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma opened for Mumbai Indians. With the dismissal of Ishan Kishan for 8 runs, Suryakumar Yadav came to bat where he joined a partnership with Rohit Sharma to smash 61 runs.
Rohit Sharma scored 36 runs on 25 deliveries while Suryakumar Yadav scored 78 runs on 53 deliveries including 7 fours and 3 sixes. With the dismissal of Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav by Sam Curran, MI scored 148 runs for 3 wickets in the 17th over.
Hardik Pandya came to bat and scored 10 runs while Tim David Scored 14 runs before being dismissed by Harshal Patel.
The star pacer Harshal Patel was impressive during the match with a return of 3/31. Finally, Mumbai Indians scored 192 runs for seven wickets.
With the target of 193 runs, Punjab Kings struggled with early dismissals as openers Sam Curran and Prabhsimran Singh were sent out with 6 and 0 runs. Rilee Rossouw and Liam Livingstone were dismissed with one run each.
Shashank Singh Bhatia scored 41 runs in the match helping the side to recover from early dismissals. Ashutosh Sharma took the side to stabilize the scorecard. He smashed fifty in the match and Harpreet Brar joined the partnership guiding the side toward victory.
By the time of writing, Punjab Kings scored 165 runs in 16 overs losing seven wickets at Maharaja Yadavindra International Cricket Stadium.
