Vibhanshu: "Almost one-third of this season is over and winners of 13 titles out of a total of 19 are sitting at the bottom of the table. " One of them will be on tomorrow as KKR take on GT. Do join us for that, and check out the quotes below. They're all excellent. Thanks for joining. Goodnight.
Arshdeep Singh, POTM Feels good, it goes back to having a chat with Ricky. Told him the ball didn't feel right when it left the hand. Had a good session yesterday and the control returned, ball was seaming and swinging. The chat was nothing technical, I was expecting too many things from myself. He told me you're coming off a high from the WC win and you can't maintain that all the time. (Rickelton ball) The wobble ball is what I've worked on, still not there yet but I'm working on that as a variation. Wasn't the way I was expecting to get him out but you accept whatever comes in T20s. Wide yorkers I've been bowling a lot, wides too, but the plan is simple if the batters are set and there's a longer boundary. Sometimes, when the yorker is coming off nicely or the batter is new, you attack the stumps. When they're set you go wide. (On PBKS' increased following) Lot of credit goes to my social media. Lot of them know me from reels and memes.
Shreyas Iyer, PBKS captain Confident and optimistic going forward. We've been playing phenomenally. We know each game is important, it's a collective effort, glad to have a comprehensive win. Prabhsimran has raised his bar, considering the last season, where he swung wild, got runs and gave excellent starts. Now he's got maturity and finishing off games. He's maturing with each game. My catch was the key to pulling things back (laughs), but we have the tendency to do that. Did that even against SRH. We have to be present and enjoy the moment. We haven't decided on how to set totals, lucky to have won tosses so far. We have a lot of positive players ready to go out there and express themselves. You need to keep getting better each game, focus on yourselves and that's the recipe we've been following. I've seen crowd coming in numbers, the fan following is going high. Great to see fans showering their love.
Angad: "Dravid gets credit for Sooryavanshi, but no one actually talks about Yuvraj for grooming likes of Abhishek and Prabhsimran and getting a beast out of them"
Deep: "POTM Ashsdeep or PrabhSimran?" we'll find out now as the presentations get underway
Tejas: "Shreyas's total impact of 46 sounds a little but of an undercount, does it not? I get there were many other impactful performances, but still..."
Soham: "Hardik is asking the right questions. But it's not a good look to be saying stuff like this when his performance with the bat today was arguably the catalyst for MI falling out of the game, and his bowling also hasn't been great. A great leader can ask those questions in the locker room but to the outside at least should be taking some responsibility and blame on himself as the leader." Think it was okay. They've looked toothless for a while, so the frustration must've been simmering.
Prabhsimran Singh I didn't get many balls in the powerplay but I thought I'd bat long and kept belief in myself. I've worked with Yuvi in the off-season, he told me I have a lot of time and I should bat long. While chasing 200, we have to cash in during the powerplay. But the wicket can be slow as it was today, so you have to bat deep. Shreyas gives a lot of clarity, batting with him is easy.
Strong stuff from Hardik tonight. You can tell MI are feeling the pinch. Ownership, as he says, has to be taken
Hardik Pandya, MI captain To be honest, I don't have much to say. We need to go back and see where we're lacking - if it's individuals, groups or planning and work it out. Credit to PBKS, ball started reversing. Dew came in the second innings but they beat us. They bowled and fielded better. We need to see if we need to make difficult calls or see if we continue and turn things around. Ownership has to be taken.
11:01pm PBKS stay unbeaten and MI don't have answers. At no part of the chase was there a real sense of jeopardy. It threatened to arrive after Connolly fell and PBKS were 45 for 2 but Shreyas then took over with Prabhsimran for company. Prabhsimran was dropped by Bumrah and boy did he capitalise. The dew grew and the pitch got better to bat. MI bowled slow a lot but there was no grip. Shreyas and Prabhsimran's wagon wheels are art pieces with lines going everywhere. Ghazanfar struck twice but no one else took a wicket and they all went over ten too.
END OF OVER:16 | 16 Runs 1 Wkt | PBKS: 188/3 (8 runs required from 24 balls, RR: 11.75, RRR: 2.00)
- Marcus Stoinis2 (2b)
- Prabhsimran Singh80 (39b)
- Shardul Thakur3-0-42-1
- Jasprit Bumrah4-0-41-0
Sight-screen shenanigans on. Movement above and Stoinis has to wait

