KXIPvMI: Rahul's struggle wasted ahead of Bumrah, Mumbai's hopes of winning with 3 runs wins

New Delhi / Mumbai: Jaspreet Bumrah's best bowling performance was on Keel Rahul's catastrophic innings and Mumbai Indians once again did the best Last night Kings XI Punjab defeated them by three runs in the thrilling match to make the match their name. With this victory, the hope of reaching the playoffs of Mumbai Indians is still alive.

Opener Lokesh Rahul's innings of 94 runs in 60 balls also did not give Kings XI Punjab a win and now it has become very difficult to reach the playoffs.

Earlier, batting first, Mumbai made 186 for eight wickets in 20 overs on the half-century by Kieron Pollard (50). The Punjab team could only manage 183 runs after losing all five wickets.

This defeat has caused great shock to the expectations of Punjab going into the playoffs. Now he will have to win in his last match and at the same time, there will be trust of luck too.

Rahul was on the crease as the Punjab team was on the verge of victory, but as soon as Jaspreet Bumrah scored in 18.3 overs, Rahul was caught by Ben Cutting at the border line, the hopes of Punjab's victory remained unchanged.

Punjab remained in the match for a long time. Chasing a challenging goal, the visiting batsman lost his fifth wicket of Chris Gayle (18) on the fifth ball of the fourth over with 34 runs. Michelle McLegan made them a victim.

From here, Rahul retained the team with Aron Finch (46) on the winning track. Both of them made a century partnership of 111 runs for the second wicket. The victory of Punjab between them was fixed, but Bumrah once again worked as a troublemaker for his team. He sent Finch to the pavilion on the first ball of the 17th over. Finch, facing 35 balls in his innings, hit three fours and a six.

From here, there was a comeback in the match of Mumbai where Bumrah played a significant role. He was pressurizing the runs and pressuring Punjab. In this pressure, Rahul played a big shot which was caught by Continges. Rahul hit 10 fours and three sixes in his innings.

Marcus Stonis and Yuvraj Singh scored one run each. Akshar Patel could not win the team by remaining unbeaten on 10 runs.

Bumrah got three wickets in 15 overs with 15 runs. McLegan's share came two wickets.

Earlier, Punjab won the toss and invited Mumbai to bat first. At one stage, Mumbai had lost all their four wickets, but Crunol and Pollard shared the 65 runs partnership with the team at crucial time.

Suryakumar Yadav (27) gave a good start to the team while performing his bat again. However, in the match, his partner Ewan Luis's bat became only nine runs and he became the victim of Andrew Tie on total score of 37 in 3.1 overs.

Ishaan Kishan scored 20 runs in 12 balls with two sixes and a four, but he failed to convert the good start into a big innings. Tie caught by Stoney's to give Mumbai another blow.

Kishen was dismissed on the total score of 59 and on the next ball, Tie returned the pavilion to Suryakumar. He faced 15 balls in his innings and hit three fours and two sixes.

Captain Rohit Sharma (6) failed in this match, and Ankit Rajput's ball was trapped by Yuvraj Singh at the total of 71. From there Krunal and Pollard played the role of running a scoreboard for Mumbai.

Brak Stoney's put the krunal's innings on. He was dismissed for a total of 136. Kronal hit 23 fours in his innings and hit a four and two sixes.

Pollard completed his half-century off the last ball of the 15th over, but Ravichandran Ashwin caught Pollard caught by Aaron Finch at the third ball of the next over.

Hearty Pandya nine and cutting can be made only four runs. Mitchell McClenaghan 11 and Mayank Markandey remained unbeaten on seven runs

For Punjab, Tie gave only 16 runs in four overs and put four wickets in his account. Ashwin took two wickets for 18 runs in three overs. Ankit and Stoneyce got one wicket each.