Thursday night's clash between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab was expected to be a gripping contest but sadly, it was sans the normal, match-ending thrills.

Punjab rely too much on their opening batsmen—KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal. And of course, their key bowlers not performing as expected didn't help as they went down to the defending champions by 48 runs in Abu Dhabi. Mohammed Shami (1-36) was a bit expensive and Kiwi Jimmy Neesham (0-52) went for too many in a 20-over game.