Ashutosh Sharma’s heroics in vain as Jasprit Bumrah-inspired Mumbai Indians beat Punjab Kings by 9 runs at IPL 2024
Hindustan TimesFor a while, Mumbai Indians must have been genuinely scared. They had reduced Punjab Kings to 50/5 early in the chase but then Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma got together to put the pressure back on the visitors in some style. Mumbai Indians' Jasprit Bumrah, right, and Mumbai Indians' Tilak Varma celebrates the dismissal of Punjab Kings' Shashank Singh The equation eventually came down to 25 off 18 balls with three wickets in hand. Put in to bat first by the Punjab Kings, MI made their way to 192/7 thanks to a controlled 53-ball 78 by Suryakumar Yadav and a quickire 34 off 18 balls by Tilak Varma. It could have been worse but the in-form pair of Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma got PBKS back into the match and did enough to give Pandya's side more than a few nervous moments.