‘Singh is King’ – Fans react as Arshdeep Singh guides Punjab Kings to victory over Mumbai Indians by 13 runs in IPL 2023

After losing the last fixture against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 14 runs, Mumbai Indians (MI) locked horns against Punjab Kings (PBKS) at the Wankhede Stadium, in Mumbai on Saturday, April 22. The Kings won the match by 13 runs and PBKS skipper, Sam Curran was awarded the Player of the Match for his brilliant performance.

MI skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to ball first. Batting first, the visitors scored a mammoth total of 214 runs with the loss of eight wickets. The highest scorer for the side was Curran, who scored 55 runs off 29 balls, with five fours and four sixes. Harpreet Singh Bhatia supported his captain in the middle and scored 41 runs from 28 balls, which included four fours and two sixes. In the end, the wicketkeeper-batter, Jitesh Sharma played a quickfire knock of 25 runs off just seven balls which included four massive sixes.

For Mumbai, the pick of the bowlers was star Australian all-rounder, Cameron Green, and former India leg-spinner Piyush Chawla, who snapped two wickets each in their spell of four overs, where they conceded 41 runs and 15 runs, respectively. One wicket each was grabbed by Arjun Tendulkar, Jason Behrendroff, and Jofra Archer.

The environment is incredible here: Sam Curran 

While chasing a mammoth total of 215 runs, MI was able to score 201 runs with the loss of six wickets. The highest scorer for the side was Green, who scored 67 runs off 43 balls with six fours and three sixes. The world’s number one T20I batter, Suryakumar Yadav scored 57 runs from 26 balls with seven fours and three sixes.

The pick of the bowler for PBKS was Arshdeep Singh, who bagged four wickets in his spell of four overs where he gave away only 29 runs in his spell. One wicket each was taken by Nathan Ellis and Liam Livingstone in their respective spells.

“Pretty special. What amazing ground. The environment is incredible here. It’s (the win) is a massive positive for us. I don’t think I should be getting the Man of the Match considering how the boys closed the game out there. Without Shikhar, we know we had to take that responsibility. Our group is coming together really Well. Shikhar will be fit soon. We won 4 out of the 7 games and it is not a bad place to be. Have got great support from the management and the local guys. The boys are enjoying themselves, and it is still a long way to go and the important thing is enjoy the game and don’t put too much pressure on ourselves,” Curran was quoted as saying in the post-match presentation.

Here’s how fans reacted to Punjab Kings’ victory:

Best death bowler out there

— Freak (@soul_freak80) April 22, 2023

Greatest ever over by a fast bowler in the Death.

This guy can become the greatest fast bowler of all time. Please don't ruin him BCCI

— KhabriBhai (@RealKhabriBhai) April 22, 2023

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— Dhruv (@Dhruv_888) April 22, 2023

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This is not stump broke, it's mumbai indian fans ass broken pic.twitter.com/vvWmjoGKhH

— a (@ankitnotaniket) April 22, 2023

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