Hardik Pandya: Punjab Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets in the 24th match of IPL 2026. With this victory, Punjab team has reached the first position in the points table with 9 points. This is the fourth consecutive defeat for Mumbai in this IPL. Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya looked quite dejected after the defeat against Punjab. When Hardik was asked a question about this match in the post match presentation ceremony, he said that after this defeat he has nothing to say at the moment.
MI captain Hardik became speechless after the defeat
Talking to the broadcaster after the match, Hardik Pandya said that to be honest, I don’t have much to say right now. I think we really have to go back and rethink our strategy and see where we are going wrong. Is it because of one player? Is it because of the entire team? Or is it because of our lack of planning? We will figure it out before the next match and see what we can do next.
Punjab performed well in all departments- Hardik
Pandya further said that I think we have to give credit for this victory to Punjab. The ball started swinging reverse. There was dew in the second innings, which made batting a little easier, but despite that, they completely bowled us out of the match. They performed better than us in batting and bowling and certainly fielded better. For this reason he won this match. I think we have to see whether we need to take some tough decisions, or whether we should just keep going like this. Hopefully we will make some improvements in the coming matches.
De Kock’s century went in vain
Talking about the match, Punjab Kings won the toss and decided to field first. Batting first, Mumbai team scored 195 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs, thanks to Quinton de Kock’s century. De Kock played an unbeaten inning of 112 runs on 60 balls. But his innings could not bring victory to the team. Punjab team easily achieved the target by scoring 198 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 16.3 overs. For Punjab, Prabhsimran Singh scored unbeaten 80 runs, while Shreyas Iyer contributed 66 runs.
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