IPL 2024Suryakumar, Bumrah star as MI survive Ashutosh scare for win against PBKS

A dazzling knock from Suryakumar Yadav and a great spell of bowling from Jasprit Bumrah handed Hardik Pandya his 3rd win as MI skipper in Mullanpur, regardless of heroics from Ashutosh Sharma and Shashank Singh. Suryakumar struck 78 while Bumrah got 3 wickets as MI wound up winning the match by 9 runs in completion after a worthy knock from Ashutosh entered vain.

Having actually been taken into bat, MI lost Ishan Kishan early however Suryakumar and Rohit Sharma, who was playing his 250th IPL match, would steady things and set them up for a huge overall. After Rohit died for 36, Suryakumar took the onus on himself to speed up and got Tilak Verma for business. The last over from Harshal Patel saw PBKS pull things back to guarantee MI just scored 192 in their 20 overs. The leading order from Punjab fell apart early in the run chase.

Gerald Coetzee and Jasprit Bumrah got 2 wickets each to thwart the PBKS early on. Shashank Singh offered PBKS some hope before Ashutosh Sharma continued his fairy tale IPL 2024 project with his maiden fifty.

He would get excellent assistance from Harpreet Brar as the formula ended up being 28 off 24 balls in the end. Ashutosh’s wicket and Harpreet leaving appeared to end the expect PBKS, however Kagiso Rabada’s very first ball 6 brought the formula to 12 off 6.

Rabada was run-out in the last over as they were bundled out for 183 as MI lived to combat another day.

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Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah continue to shine for MI

It has actually been rather a curious season up until now for Suryakumar Yadav in IPL 2024 as he has 2 ducks and 2 fifties to his name. While he might have chuckled it off, MI would enjoy to see among their star batters returning into kind and continuing the momentum in the coming matches as Mumbai seem in the hunt for an area in the playoffs.

Suryakumar can be found in early after Ishan Kishan was dismissed, and combined the innings along with Rohit Sharma with an 81-run stand. Surykumar complete variety of shots was on display screen in the match including his well-known ‘supla shot’ off the bowling of Kagiso Rabada.

This augurs well for the Indian group heading into the T20 World Cup 2024 as they will greatly depend upon him from the No. 4 area in the batting order. It was not simply the SKY program in Mullanpur.

Hardik chose to observe to the suggestions of fans and experts as he chose to hand the ball to Jasprit Bumrah in the 2nd over. And what followed was pure art.

Bumrah provided an outright peach to tidy up Rilee Rossouw before getting the wicket of Sam Curran to totally leave PBKS in all sorts of problem early on. He would then return to dismiss the harmful Shashank with as misleading slower shipment which the PBKS bowler swelled in the air and was captured by Tilak. He would come and provide a fine over to complete his spell with 3 wickets to his name and took the lead in the Purple Cap race.

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Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma continue fairy tale run

While it does appear like the playoffs do appear like a difficult task for PBKS, Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma stay to be the brilliant areas for them. After coming together to the script an extraordinary win versus GT, the duo would play some great knocks.

Shashank remained in the middle when PBKS were 14 for 4 and needed to counterattack a MI bowling that was breathing fire. He would play a calculated knock of 41 from 25 balls, that included 2 limits and 3 6s. Ashutosh was more damaging in his method and raced to 28 off simply 10 balls and it consisted of an unbelievable 6 off Bumrah with an excellent sweep shot. The self-confidence was definitely exuding out of the Railways batter on the night.

He followed it up with another amazing 6 off Romario Shepherd to keep the Mullanpur crowd amused and PBKS thinking about the chase. Ashutosh got to his fifty with another stunning 6 and followed it with another one.

A brief ball from Coetzee would eventually end a fine knock of 61 from 28 balls. It consisted of 7 6s and 2 borders and certainly this was star-making efficiency from the child.