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Time of India
6 hours ago
- Sport
- Time of India
PBKS stun MI as Shreyas Iyer special sets up final with RCB for new IPL winner
PBKS captain Shreyas Iyer with Marcus Stoinis (Image via AP /Ajit Solanki) Ahmedabad: Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer unleashed a masterclass under pressure, smashing 87 off just 41 balls (5x4, 8x6) to power his team to an epic win over Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday, sealing PBKS' first IPL final appearance in 11 years. Iyer and southpaw Nehal Wadhera played out MI's trump card Jasprit Bumrah without conceding a wicket and stitched together an 84-run partnership that proved decisive after PBKS were reduced to 72/3. Iyer's knock featured three consecutive sixes off Reece Topley and a grand finish with three more maximums off Ashwani Kumar. In between, he showed his finesse by guiding a Bumrah middle-stump yorker to the third-man boundary. Iyer had walked in after the dismissal of Priyansh Arya (20). Iyer's trailblazing knock ensured that PBKS crossed the finish line Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Earlier, Suryakumar Yadav (44 off 26 balls; 4x4, 3x6), Tilak Varma (44), and Naman Dhir (37) helped MI, who were invited to bat first, post a competitive 203/6. Left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh began with a tight opening over. MI opener Jonny Bairstow (38), realising there was little movement off the pitch, which had remained under covers for over two hours due to intermittent rain, wasted no time in launching Kyle Jamieson for a six over long leg in the second over. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch vàng CFDs với sàn môi giới tin cậy IC Markets Tìm hiểu thêm Undo IPL 2025 Winner Prediction: What Greenstone Lobo's Astrology says In the same over, Azmatullah Omarzai dropped a tough, running chance at short third man after Rohit Sharma mistimed a cut. Sharma then lofted Marcus Stoinis over his head for a boundary, before falling to a simple catch by Vijaykumar Vyshak at deep square leg. No. 3 Tilak Varma (44) and Bairstow added 51 for the second wicket. The southpaw smashed Stoinis for a maximum over long-on, while Bairstow dominated the stand with powerful shots. Poll What do you think about PBKS's chances in the IPL final? They will win They will lose It will be a close match Too early to say The Englishman drove Arshdeep through the covers and top-edged him for another four before striking Omarzai for a boundary and a six over midwicket. MI ended the Powerplay at 65/1. Vyshak, introduced after the Powerplay, bowled with discipline. A scrambled seam delivery outfoxed Bairstow's attempted scoop and landed safely in Josh Inglis's gloves. Bairstow's dismissal brought MI's most consistent batter of the season, Suryakumar Yadav, to the crease. He, along with Varma, added 72 runs in 42 balls, with Yadav especially aggressive against Yuzvendra Chahal, who was returning from injury. Yadav swept and lofted the leg-spinner for three sixes before falling to a deep midwicket catch by Wadhera—his fourth dismissal to Chahal in IPL history.' Who's that IPL player? PBKS clawed back with another quick wicket, that of Varma. Naman Dhir (37 off 18 balls; 7x4) helped MI cross the psychological 200-run mark. But they did not account for Shreyas's stunning knock.
Hindustan Times
15 hours ago
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Shreyas Iyer sizzles, puts Punjab Kings into IPL final after 11 years
Ahmedabad: Shreyas Iyer (87* - 41b, 5x4, 8x6) played an innings to remember to take Punjab Kings to their second IPL final, helping them chase down Mumbai Indians' 203/6 in 19 overs in the Qualifier 1 on Sunday. The result means IPL 2025 will have a new winner, with PBKS setting up a final clash with Royal Challengers Bengaluru here on Tuesday. PBKS reached 207/5 in 19 overs, knocking out five-time champions MI. If MI batters consistently found the boundaries, Punjab's reply would see sudden spurts in the scoring rate. Every time MI applied the squeeze, PBKS batters would unlock a big over. Like a rare asteroid event, Jasprit Bumrah's first over, bowled in the Powerplay, went for 20 runs. Josh Inglis was the one to wreck the ace paceman's plans. Hardik Pandya's bouncer cut short Inglis' charge on 38 (21b) and the MI captain almost struck for his side a decisive blow in the 10th over, only for Trent Boult to spill Nehal Wadhera's catch in the deep. Instead of being 94/4, PBKS finished on 98/3 at the halfway mark. Wadhera (48- 29b) made them pay for the lapse. But it was Shreyas Iyer's three consecutive sixes in the 13th over bowled by Reece Topley that got MI truly worried. Iyer squeezed out boundaries out of nowhere, dug out yorkers and directed them to the third man boundary with an angled blade. The PBKS captain batted with such authority that his presence at the crease all the way till the end shut the doors on MI's hopes of making their seventh final. The Narendra Modi stadium was more than half full, still comfortably more filled than any other stadium in the country. While it drizzled on Sunday evening, sometimes poured, stopped, only to reappear again, the Ahmedabad crowd was happy to keep themselves entertained, swaying to the Hindi numbers from the stadium sound system. Their patience paid off as the rain stopped in the nick of time with the promise of a full match, despite the delayed start. While the playing conditions may not have changed with no reduced overs, the pitch, under covers for two hours, was damp. Rohit Sharma and Jonny Bairstow were wise to acknowledge that and were circumspect for the first eight balls. That's until Bairstow picked Kyle Jamieson over the square leg boundary for his first six. At the other end, Shreyas introduced Marcus Stoinis early to replace Arshdeep Singh, despite Rohit's weakness against left-arm pace. The plan worked immediately with Rohit's pull landing in the hands of deep backward square leg. It could be easily categorised as a lucky break, but Rohit may have been unable to resist having a go at Stoinis' bouncer bowled at medium pace. Perhaps, that was the punt to get Rohit out early. Just when Bairstow (38- 24b) was beginning to look dangerous, Vijaykumar Vyshak's knuckle ball did him in. The Englishman picked the wrong ball to scoop. PBKS pacers were making a conscious effort to bowl a shorter length with a fair sprinkling of slower balls to benefit from the stickiness of the pitch. But the MI batters were still finding enough boundaries to score at 10-an-over in the Powerplay as well as mid-innings. This, even as Shreyas continued to gamble. He trusted Yuzvendra Chahal to challenge his adverse match-up Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav, a tormentor of spin. And Chahal, returning from injury, used all the tricks in his book, varying angles, lengths and speeds to stay in the hunt. Suryakumar, as he has done through the tournament, tweaked his scoring template, searching for straight boundaries against the leg-spinner. But he couldn't resist sweeping when Chahal pitched a yard shorter and the India T20I skipper was forced to reach out and ended up holing out to deep midwicket on 44 (26b). Figures of 4-0-39-1 weren't spectacular to look at, but to bowl his spell out in unfavourable conditions, the leading IPL wicket-taker again proved his worth. Consider Varma's fall in the very next over on 44 (29b) to Jamieson, and MI, from 142/2 in the 13th were 142/4 in the 14th over. Their march towards a potentially imposing total had been jolted. With Hardik's wise head in play, MI was quick to reassess. Lacking batting depth, Hardik would only take calculated risks. Naman Dhir would free his arms more. Right through the tournament, Dhir has proven to be a worthy late-order hitter under Kieron Pollard's watch. Again, it was his cameo (37 - 18b) that helped MI set up a target of 204. Punjab bowlers' pace-off short of length deliveries made batting difficult all the way through. But MI batters still had the skills, and experience, not to be strangled at any stage.
Indian Express
2 days ago
- Sport
- Indian Express
‘Exposing Prasidh Krishna to Rohit and Bairstow in Powerplay was a tactical error from GT', says Tom Moody
In the absence of Kagiso Rabada, Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill entrusted his leading wicket-taker Prasidh Krishna to move up to open the bowling alongside Mohammed Siraj in the IPL 2025 Eliminator match against Mumbai Indians. The move backfired heavily as Prasidh's natural back-of-a-length deliveries fed into the strengths of MI's veteran opening duo of Rohit Sharma and Jonny Bairstow. Save for Siraj's opening over that conceded only six runs, the MI openers racked up more than 10 runs in every over of the Powerplay, with Prasidh's second over costing 26 runs. Playing his first game of the season after being roped in as a temporary replacement signing by Mumbai, Bairstow unravelled the tall GT pacer's short lengths with three sixes anf two fours in the over as MI waltzed to 79 for no loss in the Powerplay. Former Australia all-rounder Tom Moody called out the tactical blunder from GT skipper Gill as he decided to push a natural middle-overs bowler, Prasidh, to operate with the new ball. 'Opening the bowling with Prasidh Krishna was a tactical error. He has spent a majority of the season as an impact bowler in the middle phase of the game. There's only been two occasions when he has bowled two (overs) in the powerplay in the whole season. He's been most effective with that hard lengths in the middle phase where he's got the protection out there square of the wicket,' Moody said in an ESPNcricinfo interaction. Despite dismissing Rohit on 81 in his death-overs spell, Krishna was GT's most expensive bowler (2/53) as Mumbai registered the highest-ever IPL total at the Mullanpur Stadium. 'To expose him to two players like Rohit Sharma and Jonny Bairstow, who love that back of the length line, they can get back and pivot and pull the ball comfortably, it's right in their wheelhouse… [They could have tried] left-arm spin early on. With Washington Sundar coming in, it would have made a lot of sense and would have been something they [MI openers] possibly wouldn't have been expecting.' The Karnataka pacer, however, topped the Purple Cap charts with 25 wickets in 15 games this season.
Hindustan Times
3 days ago
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
IPL 2025: Rohit masterclass leads MI to victory
Mullanpur: For the second time in the current IPL edition, Sai Sudharsan's second innings effort threatened to trump a first innings masterclass. But unlike what happened against Delhi Capitals on May 18 where Sudharsan's ton had overpowered KL Rahul's century, his 49-ball 80 (10x4, 1x6) in Mullanpur came up short against Rohit Sharma's 50-ball 81 (9X4, 4X6) as Mumbai Indians beat Gujarat Titans by 20 runs on Friday. Chasing MI's 228/5 on a track that offered little to no sideways movement, Sudharsan brought his full range of delectable strokeplay, but in the end, MI's total proved to be too much. GT lost skipper Shubman Gill on the fourth ball of their chase but Sudharsan, currently the leading scorer of the league, stitched a 64-run alliance for the second wicket with Kusal Mendis off just 34 balls to put GT on course. Mendis' dismissal in the seventh over meant Sudharsan was joined in the middle by his Tamil Nadu teammate Washington Sundar and the duo produced a vital 84-run partnership. Sundar played his part with an explosive 24-ball 48 (5X4, 3X6) but once Sudharsan fell in the 16th over to Richard Gleeson, the ask was a bit too much for Impact Player Sherfane Rutherford and Rahul Tewatia. As well as Jasprit Bumrah bowled in the tense chase, the foundation of MI's win was laid by Rohit Sharma who made the most of some early reprieves to stroke a delightful 81 after Hardik Pandya called correctly at the toss. After a sedate first over from Mohammed Siraj, Rohit top-edged a back of length Prasidh Krishna delivery to fine leg where Gerald Coetzee settled comfortably under the ball but shelled the catch. The momentum began to shift in the third over when Rohit nailed a textbook straight drive off Siraj before pulling him over midwicket for another boundary. Siraj then got Rohit, then on 12, to edge a wild slog but wicketkeeper Kusal Mendis fluffed the chance. The next over swung the tide decisively in MI's favour as Jonny Bairstow tore into Prasidh. The England batter started the over with a powerful pull that sailed over square leg for a six. Next, Bairstow made room on the leg side and slapped Prasidh over the off side for a four. A ball later, Bairstow's leading edge went over the vacant third man for another six and he followed it with a straight six as MI's fifty was raised in 3.5 overs. Bairstow was not done yet as he made room on the last ball and the under edge raced between keeper and short third for four. With 26 runs from that over, MI were well and truly off to a flier. Gill, visibly flustered by Bairstow's assault and forced to change his field after almost every ball, introduced the left-arm spin of Sai Kishore in the sixth over and Rohit responded by sweeping him for a six and a couple of fours. It was an exhibition of pure placement as Rohit accessed the arc between midwicket and square leg at will, teasing the field with his deft touch. The 79-run Powerplay was MI's best of the current edition of IPL. GT finally struck in the eighth over when Bairstow's reverse hit off Sai Kishore was parried to Coetzee at backward point by a diving Sai Sudharsan. The right-hander's 47 came off 22 balls and was studded with four fours and three towering sixes. Suryakumar Yadav joined Rohit in the middle and the two played out a couple of quiet overs of Sai Kishore and Rashid Khan. The next two, however, produced 24 runs as MI innings picked the pace again. Surya was dropped by Mendis in the 12th over, bowled by Coetzee, but Sai Kishore had him caught off a top-edged sweep at fine leg. Rohit, meanwhile, went about his merry ways, relying on his typically pleasing strokeplay to keep the MI innings moving. He reached his fifty in 28 balls and settled down nicely after his earlier misadventures. Particularly impressive against the leg-spin of Rashid Khan, Rohit first danced down the track and hit him inside-out for a six and after a few overs, swept the bowl on the same length for another six. Hardik Pandya's late flourish ensured MI raced to 228/5. The result means five-time champion MI will face Punjab Kings in Qualifier 2 on Sunday and the winner will meet RCB in the final on June 3.
Hindustan Times
3 days ago
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Shubman Gill yells at Prasidh for conceding moster six; pacer responds by conceding 26-run over for GT vs MI
Prasidh Krishna endured a horror start in the IPL Eliminator match against Mumbai Indians on Friday, as his first over fetched 26 runs in the Powerplay against the explosive duo of Rohit Sharma and MI debutant Jonny Bairstow. The latter, who played his first match of the season after being brought in as a late replacement for Ryan Rickelton, showed no signs of nerve as he was on attack from the very first delivery. While he was dismissed just three runs shy of his half-century, he inflicted a serious damage on GT bowlers during the Powerplay, with Prasidh taking the most of the brunt. It was the fourth over of the game as GT captain Shubman Gill threw the ball to his best strike bowler this season in the hope of turning the tide. But what followed was nothing short of a demolition from Bairstow. The first ball of the over set the tone. Prasidh dropped it short, just outside off, and Bairstow, standing tall and balanced, swivel-pulled it with disdain. The ball took off over square leg for a six. A clean strike, and one that sent an instant reaction from Gill. The GT skipper, stationed inside the circle, turned sharply and yelled at Prasidh. However, Prasidh, under pressure, failed to make a quick comeback. The next delivery offered width, and Bairstow needed no second invitation. He backed away and smashed it over cover-point, one bounce and across the rope. Prasidh tried to regroup with a fuller ball shaping away and Bairstow was momentarily beaten. But the fourth saw Bairstow swing wildly across the line, getting a thick edge. The ball sailed over the third man who was inside the ring. Another six. The final delivery was a gift outside off and Bairstow launched it over long-off. The GT players were left frozen as the ball cleared the boundary with ease. Earlier, MI captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and opted to bat in Mullanpur. The winner of the match will meet Punjab Kings for a place in the final of the 2025 season. The Kings faced a thumping defeat at the hands of Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Qualifier 1 on Thursday.
