Hardik Pandya
Mumbai Indians lost by seven wickets against Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League 2025 match on 26 May. With this defeat, Mumbai lost a golden opportunity to confirm their place in the top-2 of the points table. At the same time, after registering a wonderful win over Mumbai, Punjab finished its campaign in league stage with 19 points in 14 matches and captured the first position in the points table.
In this match, there was a direct competition between the two teams who have already qualified in the playoffs. The winner of the match was about to confirm his place in the top-2 at the end of the league stage. While Punjab achieved this feat with victory, the Mumbai Indians team finished fourth in 14 matches with 16 points.
Every season is challenged
After the match, captain Hardik Pandya admitted that his team did not perform as expected in batting and scored 20 runs. He said that we should have scored 20 more runs in view of the pitch. Today we were not in our rhythm. We have won the title five times, every season is challenging.
Batting first, Mumbai scored 184 for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Suryakumar Yadav scored a brilliant half -century and scored an important innings of 57 runs in 39 balls. Surya hit 6 fours and 2 sixes.
Must have tried to improve the shortcomings
Chasing the target, Punjab Kings won the match by scoring 187 runs in 18.3 overs, losing 3 wickets in 18.3 overs on the basis of a tremendous batting of Josh English (73 runs) and Priyansh Arya (62 runs). After the match, Hardik said that if you give any chance to the opponent, then they make the match in their favor by putting pressure. This is what happened today. However, 20 runs in our batting and the picture could have been something else. He further said that the defeat is fresh right now, an attempt will be made to improve the shortcomings over time. There was a need to take advantage of the occasions.
(PTI Inputs)
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