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Punjab Kings roared in Wankhede, defeated MI by 7 wickets, achieved fourth consecutive win on the strength of Iyer-Prabhasimran.

By Samira Vishwas

MI vs PBKS 24th Match IPL 2026 Highlight: In IPL 2026, today i.e. on 16th April, the 24th match of this season was played between Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians. Earlier, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer had won the toss and decided to bowl. Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 195 runs against Punjab thanks to Quinton de Kock’s century. The score given by Mumbai was achieved by Punjab Kings at the loss of 3 wickets in 16.3 overs. Accordingly, Punjab defeated MI by 7 wickets and registered its fourth consecutive win in IPL 2026. At the same time, for Mumbai Indians, this proved to be the fourth consecutive defeat of this season at Wankhede ground.

Captain Iyer and Prabhasimran played match winning innings

Batting, wicketkeeper batsman Prabhsimran Singh and captain Shreyas Iyer played important roles for Punjab Kings to chase the score given by Mumbai Indians. Because of these two, Punjab Kings were able to easily win this match in the 17th over. If we talk about Captain Iyer, he played a half-century of 66 runs in 35 balls. His innings included 5 fours and 4 skyscraper sixes. Apart from this, Prabhsimran Singh played an unbeaten and match-winning inning of 80 runs in 39 balls with a strike rate of 205. This innings of Prabhasimran included a total of 11 fours and 2 sixes. Apart from this, Priyansh Arya scored 15 runs in the beginning, Cooper Connolly scored 17 runs and in the end Marcus Stennis scored 10 runs.

MI bowlers could not defend the score

In this match, Mumbai Indians bowlers failed to defend the score of 195. Deepak Chahar proved to be the most expensive bowler for Mumbai Indians. He gave away 45 runs in 2.3 overs. At the same time, Shardul spent 42 runs in 3 overs while captain Hardik Pandya spent 39 runs in the same number of overs. For Mumbai, M. Ghazanfar took 2 wickets and Shardul Thakur took 1 wicket.

Shreyas Iyer took an amazing catch

In this match, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer surprised everyone by completing an excellent relay catch with his agility and intelligence. Despite losing balance near the boundary, he got the wicket by tossing the ball towards his teammate, which became a memorable moment of this match. This brilliant catch was seen when Hardik Pandya played a big shot in front on the ball of Marco Jansen.

Quinton de Kock’s century innings went in vain

Quinton de Kock performed excellent batting for Mumbai Indians in this match. He scored unbeaten 112 runs in 60 balls at a strike rate of 186. In his innings, he hit 8 fours and 7 sixes, due to which the team could reach the score of 190+. Apart from him, young batsman Naman Dheer also made an important contribution and scored 50 runs in 31 balls. captain hardik pandya He was out after scoring 14 runs, while in the end Tilak Verma scored 8 runs in 3 balls taking the team’s score to 195.

Also read: Shreyas Iyer caught an impossible catch by flying in the air, Rohit and Surya were stunned, reaction video went viral

Arshdeep Singh took three wickets

From Punjab Kings Arshdeep Singh He was the most successful bowler, taking 3 wickets in his name. He gave a big blow to Mumbai Indians at the very beginning of the match. In his second over, Arshdeep put Mumbai under pressure by dismissing Ryan Rickleton (2) and Suryakumar Yadav (0). Apart from this, Marco Jansen and Shashank Singh also kept the team in balance by taking 1 wicket each.

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