SKY-Ishan's fireworks trump Jitesh's masterclass as MI topple PBKS in standings

Ishan Kishans stylish 75 off 41 balls was complemented by Suryakumar Yadavs 360 degree effort that fetched 66 off 31 balls as Mumbai Indians powered to a sixwicket victory over Punjab Kings in an IPL match here on WednesdayUncapped Jitesh Sharma 49 27b matched T20 specialist Liam Livingstone 82 not out 42b in flair and flamboyance as the duo stepped up in style in the back end to propel Punjab Kings to a fighting 2143 after Mumbai Indians opted to bowlBut Ishan was at his furious best in a 41ball 75 7x4 4x6 while Suryakumar Yadav batted with his usual flair in a 31ball 66 8x4 2x6 to make a mockery of 200plus chase winning with seven balls to spareThe duo added 116 runs from just 55 balls as MI raced to the target with seven balls to spare to secure their fifth win from nine matchesArshdeep Singh took a stunning catch to dismiss Suryakumar off Aussie seamer Nathan Ellis 234 and then he came to bowl the next over and accounted for Ishan with a knuckle ballThe duo were dismissed in eight runs to open up the match with 37 runs needed off 22 balls but Tim David 19 not out and Tilak Verma 26 not out sealed the chaseTilak Verma 26 not out off 10 balls launched mercilessly into Arshdeep Singh who went for 66 in 35 overs as it finished in a jiffy in the endThe win pushed MI 10 points from nine matches to topsix ahead of Punjab 10 from 10 matches on net runrateFrom being 01 it was only a oneway traffic for Mumbai Indians with Ishan forging a counterattacking fiftyplus partnership with Cameron Green 23 18b to set the tempoThe duo got it going against Punjabs ace pacer Arshdeep Singh hitting him for 16 runsIshan first showed the way with Cameron Green 23 off 18 balls in a fiftyplus partnership to show the way after their fivetime title winning skipper Rohit Sharma capped a threeball duck in his 200th appearance for his franchiseThe lefthanded wicketkeeperbatter batted at his belligerent best and gave Mumbai a perfect start in company of SuryakumarIt was then Suryakumar show that lit up Mohali when he batted with disdain against Sam Curran to race to a 23ball fifty his third this season and 19th overallSuryakumar who came in as Impact Substitue for debutant Akash Madhwal suddenly opened the face of his blade to a wide Curran delivery and cleared the backward point boundary with utmost easeCurran retuned with a wide fullish delivery and Surya had no problem reaching to it as he went down on his knee to sail the ball over to 87metreThe next ball he gave a return catch to Curran but it was too difficult for the pacer as he smashed two more boundaries to get 23 runs from the overThere was no looking back for the MI duo who kept scoring in boundaries to bring the equation down to 45 runs from last five five oversAlso Read MI vs RR highlights Mumbai Indians outclass Punjab by 6 wickets in highscoring thrillerEarlier Livingstone raced to seasons first fifty in 32 balls and ended up being the topscorer with 82 not out 42b studded with seven boundaries and four sixesGiving Livingstone a perfect support PBKS glovesman Sharma continued to impress as he remained unbeaten on 49 27b in a 119run fourth wicket partnership that came off just 53 ballsLivingstone was at his furious best when he smacked his English teammate Jofra Archer for three sixes in a row in the 19th overThere was no slambang approach but sheer orthodox hits on both sides of the wicket from the Vidarbha keeperbatterSharma looked fluent be it against the guile of legspinner Chawla or sheer raw pace from Archer as he hit five fours and two sixes only to remain stranded one run shy of a maiden IPL fiftyMI was letdown big time by their star English pacer Archer who looked rusty and conceded 56 from his full quotaIt was yet another poor show from the MI bowlers at the backend as they gave away 115 runs from 48 balls to concede a fourth successive 200plus scoreAt 993 in 12 overs after Chawlas tidy spell of 229 MI looked to have tightened the noose after Rohit Sharma opted to bowlThe duo of Livingstone and Sharma upped the ante in the next over when they took Archer to cleaners in an over that yielded 21 runsComing back from an injury Archer looked wayward and bowled a waist high full toss which would have been a nasty blow but his English teammate managed to put it awaySharma then unleashed his fury smashing Archer four boundaries to get into the grooveOn battingbelter Chawla smartly varied his pace and quietly did his job dismissing a dangerouslooking Shikhar Dhawan 30 20b and Matthew Short 27 26b in the middle oversHaving got a reprieve on 23 Dhawan started to break the shackles and stepped out Chawla for a boundary over the bowlers headDhawan tried to repeat the same in the next delivery but this time the veteran legspinner had the last laugh when he outfoxed the lefthander altering his lengthFresh from their humdinger of a win against Chennai PBKS could not find their mojo up front after Rohit Sharma opted to bowlReturning to the same venue where their bowlers were hammered by Lucknow Super Giants to post a mammoth 2575 PBKS started on a jittery notePrabhsimran Singh got out in the second over while Dhawan as always was a slowstarterThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever