IPL 2025 Qualifier 2: Mumbai Indians battered in front of Shreyas Iyer’s storm, Punjab Kings reached final after 11 years
Punjab Kings vs Mumbai Indians, Qualifier 2 Match Highlights: Captain Shreyas Iyer (Shreyas iyer) On the basis of a stormy half -century of Punjab, Punjab Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by 5 wickets in the second qualifier match played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday (1 June). With this, Punjab Kings have entered the IPL final after 11 years, where they will face the team of Royal Challengers Bangalore on Tuesday (May 3).
Let us know that this is the first time in the history of IPL when the Mumbai team could not defend more than 200.
Punjab Kings started to chase the target and got the first blow as Prabhasimran Singh on the total score of 13 runs. After this, Josh English scored 38 runs and Priyansh Arya 20 runs in the powerplay but both returned to the pavilion for a total score of 72 runs.
After this, Shreyas Iyer and Nehal Vadhera accelerated the pace of runs and made an important partnership of 84 runs for the fourth wicket. Vadhera missed the half -century and scored 48 runs in 29 balls with the help of 4 fours and 2 sixes. At the same time, Shreyas scored an unbeaten 87 in 41 balls, in which 5 fours and 8 sixes hit. Due to which Punjab Kings won by losing 5 wickets while remaining one over.
Ashwini Kumar took 2 wickets for Mumbai Indians, captain Hardik Pandya and Trent Bolt took 1-1 wickets.
After getting the first batting invitation, Mumbai India scored 203 runs at the loss of 6 wickets. In which Suryakumar Yadav scored 44 runs in 26 balls and Tilak Verma scored 44 runs in 29 balls. Apart from this, opening batsman Johnny Bairstow scored 38 runs in 24 balls and Naman Dhir played a stormy innings of 37 runs in 18 balls, due to which Mumbai’s score reached 200.
For Punjab Kings, Azmatullah Umarzai took 2 wickets, Kyle Jamison, Yuzvendra Chahal, Marcus Stoinis and Vijaykumar Vaishak took 1-1 wickets.
