In the 13th match of the Indian T20 League, champions Mumbai pushed Punjab to the backfoot and defeated them by 48 runs. Mumbai, who came to bat first after losing the toss, gave Punjab a target of 192 runs to win, in reply, Punjab could score 143 runs.

Mumbai

Rohit hit good hits after completing his half-century but on a total score of 124, he also scored 70 runs in an attempt to take Shami's ball across the boundary. After Rohit's dismissal, it seemed that the Mumbai team would be able to score 150-160. But now the two T20 specialists at the crease, ie Pollard and Hardik Pandya, both pushed the innings forward and hit sixes and fours to take the team to a score of 191. Mumbai bagged 89 runs in the last five overs, Mumbai squads hit 25 sixes in the last over off Krishnappa Gowtham.

Playing11 - 

Rohit Sharma (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, James Pattinson, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah

Punjab 

Punjab had started the innings better than Mumbai, but Punjab could not get off to a good start after a 38-run opening partnership with KL Rahul, Mayyak Agarwal bowled off Bumrah. Karun Nair came to bat at number three and returned to the pavilion without opening an account. After this, a good partnership was expected from Nicholas Pooran and KL Rahul but it did not happen and Punjab got a third blow as KL Rahul on a total score of 60, after this Pooran shared a 41-run partnership with Glenn Maxwell, Nicholas Pooran was dismissed for 44 runs and with all the hopes of Punjab, he was again flopped, Maxwell flopped once again and he scored only 7 runs in 18 balls. Thus Punjab's entire innings ended on runs.

Playing11:

Lokesh Rahul (c & wk), Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Glenn Maxwell, Karun Nair, James Neesham, Sarfaraz Khan, Krishnappa Gowtham, Mohammed Shami, Sheldon Cottrell, Ravi Bishnoi

In this match, Mumbai bowling was very impressed and did not allow the Punjab batsmen to play open shots, Trent Boult proved to be the most expensive bowler for Mumbai, who gave 42 runs in 4 overs, the rest of the bowlers were economical, Jams Pattinson, Jaspreet Bumrah and Rahul Chahar took two wickets each.

You can read more match prediction and match report in this blog. You can play Fantasy Cricket for next match in Indian T20 League 2020. So You wait for next match prediction. You can create Fantasy Cricket team on MyTeam11 Fantasy Cricket App win cash daily.