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Punjab Kings suffered their 5th consecutive decision successful IPL 2026 arsenic Mumbai Indians chased down 201 with six wickets successful manus connected Thursday, leaving Punjab’s playoff hopes hanging by a thread.
The nonaccomplishment besides added different unwanted grounds to Punjab’s tally, arsenic they present clasp the grounds for the astir defeats portion defending 200-plus totals successful T20 cricket.Punjab present person 10 defeats portion defending 200-plus scores successful T20s. West Indies are adjacent connected the database with 8 losses, followed by Royal Challengers Bengaluru with 7 and Chennai Super Kings with six.Most defeats successful 200+ chases successful T20s10 Punjab Kings8 West Indies7 Royal Challengers Bengaluru6 Chennai Super KingsAsked to bat first, Punjab got disconnected to a beardown commencement done Priyansh Arya (27) and Prabhsimran Singh (57), who added 50 runs successful 33 balls.
Prabhsimran aboriginal stitched a 57-run basal with Cooper Connolly arsenic PBKS crossed the 100-run people successful the 12th over.However, Mumbai pulled things backmost done Shardul Thakur, who picked up 4 wickets for 39 runs. He removed Prabhsimran and skipper Shreyas Iyer (4) wrong 3 balls to displacement momentum successful Mumbai’s favour.Punjab inactive managed to scope 200 for 8 aft collecting 53 runs successful the last 3 overs. Azmatullah Omarzai scored 38 disconnected 17 balls, portion Vishnu Vinod and Xavier Bartlett added precocious runs.
Mumbai’s pursuit was led by Ryan Rickelton, who smashed 48 disconnected 23 balls with 4 fours and 4 sixes. Though Punjab fought backmost done Yuzvendra Chahal and reduced Mumbai to 89 for 3, Tilak Varma held the innings unneurotic with an unbeaten 75 disconnected 33 balls.Tilak archetypal added 61 runs with Sherfane Rutherford and aboriginal finished the pursuit with Will Jacks. He besides smashed 2 sixes successful the last implicit to seal the triumph with 1 shot remaining.The decision besides added to Shreyas Iyer’s grounds portion defending 200-plus totals successful the IPL. As captain, Iyer has present mislaid 7 specified matches successful the league. In 20 IPL matches wherever his broadside scored 200-plus totals portion batting first, his teams person won 12, mislaid 7 and had 1 nary result. No different IPL skipper has mislaid much than 5 specified games, portion lone Faf du Plessis has mislaid arsenic galore crossed each T20 cricket.Shreyas Iyer arsenic skipper successful defending 200+ totals successful IPLMat 20 | Win 12 | Lost 7 | NR 1No different skipper has mislaid much than 5 specified games successful IPL portion lone Faf du Plessis has mislaid arsenic galore crossed each T20s.
