PBKS’s unbeaten streak continues, MI defeated by 7 wickets at home; Fifty of Prabhsimran Singh-Shreyas Iyer, 3 wickets of Arshdeep

IPL 2026 Mumbai Indians Vs Punjab Kings Match Highlights: Mumbai’s home ground, thousands of fans wearing blue jerseys and the team adorned with legends… Despite this, Mumbai Indians had to face their second consecutive defeat at their home ground Wankhede Stadium. The bowling did not have that edge for which MI was known. Jasprit Bumrah Till now he has not been able to take even a single wicket in 5 matches. Deepak Chahar, Shardul Thakur and Hardik Pandya are also giving away runs… the team had to suffer the consequences of this in the form of fourth consecutive defeat.

Thanks to Quinton de Kock’s unbeaten century, MI scored 195 runs for 6 wickets, which PBKS achieved by scoring 198 runs losing just 3 wickets in 16.3 overs. Prabhsimran Singh and Shreyas Iyer Scored a stormy half-century. Prabhsimran Singh did not remain out till the end. With this victory, Punjab team has reached the top in the points table.

Shreyas Iyer-Prabhsimran Singh wrote the script of Mumbai’s defeat

Shreyas Iyer and Prabhsimran Singh wrote the script of Mumbai’s defeat. Iyer scored 66 runs in 35 balls, hitting 4 sixes and 5 fours, while Prabhasimran scored unbeaten 80 runs in 39 balls, hitting 2 sixes and 11 fours. Apart from this, Priyansh Arya scored 15 runs, Cooper Connolly scored 17 runs and Marcus Stoinis scored 10 unbeaten runs.

There was a partnership of 139 runs in 66 balls for the third wicket between Iyer and Prabhasimran. For Mumbai, Allah Ghazanfar took 2 wickets, while Shardul Thakur got 1 wicket.

Quinton de Kock’s century turned upside down

Quinton de Kock scored an unbeaten century while playing his first match in IPL 2026. He scored 112 runs in 60 balls at a strike rate of around 187, which included 7 sixes and 8 fours. Apart from him, Naman Dhir played a brilliant inning of 50 runs in 31 balls, hitting 3 sixes and 3 fours.

There was a partnership of 122 runs in 68 balls for the third wicket between Naman and De Kock. Apart from both of them, no other batsman played a big innings. Ryan Rickelton 2, Suryakumar Yadav 0, captain Hardik Pandya 14, Sherfane Rutherford 1 and Tilak Verma were out after scoring 8 runs.

Arshdeep Singh became ‘Player of the Match’

For Punjab, Arshdeep Singh took 3 wickets for 22 runs in 4 overs. He was chosen player of the match for this. Apart from him, Marco Jansen and Shashank Singh took 1 wicket each.