Punjab Kings beat Mumbai Indians by seven wickets in the 24th Match of the Indian Premier League 2026. It was a terrific game between Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings but the entire game it was PBKS who outclassed MI at their home. Mumbai Indians were batting first and lost a couple of early wickets. Quinton De Kock and Naman dhir stitched a partnership to consolidate things. Quinton De Kock smashed a century while Naman Dhir scored a half century but Mumbai Indians could not get the flourish in the end and ended with 195 runs on the board at the end of first innings. Chasing the target, Punjab Kings lost a few wickets but half centuries from captain Shreyas Iyer and Prabhsimran Singh helped them chase down the target comfortably with seven wickets spare.
Prabhsimran Singh | Translated from Hindi: I was just believing in myself because the powerplay I didn't get many balls to play. So I was playing the whole game in the starting. I think I was played 6-7 balls in the powerplay. But then in my mind I thought that if I take a little longer, I will be able to play. So I kept believing in myself that I will do it and I did it. Absolutely sir, I worked a lot. Actually, in the off-season, I worked a lot with my academy. So whenever I talk to them, they say that you have a lot of time, you can play a little longer. So I just had this in mind that I will play the anchor. I thought for the spinners that if I don't give them wickets, then it will be easier for the bowlers. Our captain is very good. As a captain, when he talks, he gives us clarity. And he himself is playing such good batting. So it becomes easy to play with him.
Hardik Pandya | MI captain:
To be very honest, I don't have much to say right now. I think we really need to go back on the drawing board and see where are we lacking. Is it individuals? Is it as a group? Is it as planning? We'll just figure it out and see what we can do next. I think we need to give credit to them as well. The ball started reversing. In the second inning the dew came and it slightly got better but having said that, they just outbeat us. They bowled better, they batted better, they fielded better definitely and that talks to us again. No, I think we need to see, do we need to make some difficult calls or do we need to keep continuing and hope that we'll turn things around. These are some harsh questions which eventually we need to answer and yeah, ownership has to be taken.
Shreyas Iyer | PBKS captain:
Certainly confident and optimistic the way we have been playing. Also we have our heads on our shoulder. I am glad that today we came out and got that victory. He has certainly raised up his bar, even though he was getting runs, he was giving us excellent starts, this year he has been more mature, match by match he is getting more mature. My catch. We have this tendancy of pulling things back, even against SRH, the way we bowled.. We haven't decided about that as of now, I have been luck to win the toss, lot of positive players in the team to go out and express themselves. I personally feel you need to keep getting better each and every game, that is the reciepe we keep following. I have seen the crowd coming in numbers and cheering us.
Arshdeep Singh | Player of the Match:
First of all thank you so much. It goes back to having a chat with Ricky, I told him that the ball is not coming out of my hand nicely, we had a chat after that, yesterday we had a good session and today you could see the ball coming out nicely. It was about keeping myself mentally fresh. He told me you are coming on the back of a World Cup win and it is not easy to keep up that level. That's the ball I have been working on, I saw Siraj getting a lot of wickets with it. The seam was coming nice, changed it a bit and in T20 cricket whatever comes your way, you take it. I mean the wide yorkers I have been bowling a lot, make use of the longer boundary, that's the plan. When the batter is set you go wide and the batter is new you attack the stumps. Loved the support, lot of credit goes to my social media, lot of them know me by making reels. You will see a lot of reels coming.
Punjab Kings with this win continue to dominate the season and they have not lost a single game so far this season. On the other hand, Mumbai Indians are on a losing streak and need to bounce back strongly in the next game to keep themselves alive in the tournament.
