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For Punjab Kings, after four straight losses, the match against Mumbai Indians was a crucial one. They batted first and had some nervy moments. Prabhsimran Singh<\/a> smashed a fluent half-century before Shardul Thakur<\/a>‘s four-wicket burst triggered a dramatic collapse, but a strong late surge helped Punjab Kings post a competitive 200 for 8 against Mumbai Indians in a crucial IPL match here on Thursday. Asked to bat first after suffering four successive defeats, PBKS rode on an attacking 33-ball 50-run opening stand between Priyansh Arya<\/a> (27) and Prabhsimran (57).<\/p>\n The tension was palpable in the PBKS ranks as co-owner Preity Zinta looked concerned whenever a wicket fell. She was joined by Celina Jaitly in the stands for the match.<\/p>\n
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Mumbai Indians paid heavily for dropping Prabhsimran early as the opener powered Punjab to 55 for 1 in the powerplay and then added 57 runs with Cooper Connolly<\/a> to take the side past the 100-run mark in the 12th over.<\/p>\n It was Deepak Chahar<\/a> who struck first for MI, cleaning up Arya with a delivery that rattled the top of off stump in the fifth over.<\/p>\n Stand-in skipper Jasprit Bumrah<\/a> was unlucky not to get Prabhsimran earlier after Naman Dhir<\/a> dropped a straightforward catch off a thick edge in the second over, and the PBKS batter capitalised by hitting Bumrah for two boundaries.<\/p>\n Connolly (21) got going with the first six of the innings off spinner Raghu Sharma<\/a> in the eighth over before collecting two more boundaries off Will Jacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n Prabhsimran then took charge, slog-sweeping Raghu for two sixes in the 10th over and launching Corbin Bosch<\/a> for another maximum.<\/p>\n He reached his fifty with a single and followed it up with another six off Shardul over backward square leg.<\/p>\n However, the momentum shifted dramatically once Shardul, who had conceded 15 runs in his opening over, struck twice in the space of three balls.<\/p>\n The pacer removed the well-set Prabhsimran and then dismissed skipper Shreyas Iyer<\/a> (4) as PBKS slipped badly.<\/p>\n Raj Bawa<\/a> then joined the act, castling Connolly with a cross-seam delivery, before taking a sharp catch at short midwicket to dismiss Suryansh Shedge<\/a> off Shardul.<\/p>\n Shashank Singh was trapped lbw by Bosch, while Marco Jansen<\/a> also fell cheaply, with Shardul striking again in the 17th over to leave Punjab in deep trouble.<\/p>\n PBKS, however, finished strongly by plundering 53 runs in the last three overs as MI bowlers erred with their variations at the death.<\/p>\n Azmatullah Omarzai<\/a> led the counterattack with a 17-ball 38 studded with two sixes and a four, while Vishnu Vinod<\/a> and Xavier Bartlett<\/a> added valuable late runs.<\/p>\n Vinod and Bartlett collected 22 runs off Bosch’s final over, aided by sloppy fielding and two dropped catches near the boundary, as Punjab crossed the 200-run mark for the eighth time this season.<\/p>\n
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