Shreyas Iyer sums up Mumbai Indians' collapse in one line

NEW DELHI: Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer near everyone stunned with a singular show of athleticism astatine the bound ropes, drafting amazed reactions not conscionable from fans but besides from the Mumbai Indians dugout, wherever Rohit Sharma and Suryakumar Yadav were seen watching successful disbelief.The infinitesimal came successful the 18th implicit during the IPL 2026 clash betwixt Mumbai Indians and Punjab Kings astatine the Wankhede Stadium connected Thursday, erstwhile Hardik Pandya smashed Marco Jansen towards long-on.What followed was axenic diversion brilliance. Sprinting swiftly to his left, Iyer tracked the shot to perfection adjacent the bound rope. Realising helium was astir to suffer equilibrium and measurement over, helium improvised mid-air, catching the shot with a reverse cupful and, portion airborne, flicking it backmost into play.Xavier Bartlett, stationed nearby, completed the drawback safely. While Bartlett’s sanction went into the scorebook, the effort was wholly Iyer’s creation.After the stunning effort, Iyer celebrated successful style.Following Punjab Kings’ seven-wicket win, Ian Bishop asked Iyer, "At 1 signifier Mumbai were looking for 200+, what was the cardinal to propulsion the things back".Iyer didn't minch immoderate connection and said: "I deliberation my drawback (laugh)".

Prabhsimran Singh and Iyer struck fluent fifties arsenic Punjab Kings continued their winning tally with a commanding seven-wicket triumph implicit Mumbai Indians, who slumped to a 4th consecutive decision successful IPL 2026.Chasing 196, Punjab Kings reached 198/3 with 21 balls to spare, arsenic Mumbai Indians’ bowlers struggled collectively, with AM Ghazanfar’s 2/31 being the lone notable effort."Confident and optimistic going forward. We've been playing phenomenally.

We cognize each crippled is important, it's a corporate effort, gladsome to person a broad win. Prabhsimran has raised his bar, considering the past season, wherever helium swung wild, got runs and gave fantabulous starts. Now he's got maturity and finishing disconnected games. He's maturing with each game", Iyer said aft the match."My drawback was the cardinal to pulling things backmost (laughs), but we person the inclination to bash that. Did that adjacent against SRH. We person to beryllium contiguous and bask the moment. We haven't decided connected however to acceptable totals, fortunate to person won tosses truthful far. We person a batch of affirmative players acceptable to spell retired determination and explicit themselves. You request to support getting amended each game, absorption connected yourselves and that's the look we've been following. I've seen assemblage coming successful numbers, the instrumentality pursuing is going high.

Great to spot fans showering their love", helium said.Punjab Kings volition adjacent look Lucknow Super Giants connected April 19.