Kings XI Punjab defeated Mumbai Indians in a thrilling Super Over at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai and registered their third win of the tournament while Mumbai Indians suffered their third loss.
Earlier Mumbai Indians won the toss and opted to bat first but they had a very poor start and by the end of power play, they lost Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, and Ishan Kishan for just 38 runs. Inform Quinton de Kock and Krunal Pandya added 58 runs for the fourth wicket and brought their team into the match.
Quinton de Kock completed his third consecutive fifty but he couldn't convert it into a bigger one. In the end, Kieron Pollard's 34* off 12 balls and Nathan Coulter Nile's 24* off 12 balls helped Mumbai to post a good total of 176/6 in 20 overs.
In reply Kings XI Punjab also had a poor start and inform Mayank Agarwal got out for just 11 runs. Captain KL Rahul continued his good run and along with Gayle took the score to 75 runs. Rahul Chahar dismissed Gayle for 24 runs. Nicholas Pooran counter-attacked and smashed 2 sixes and 2 four in the first 7 balls but his innings didn't last long as Bumrah dismissed him for 24 runs. Glenn Maxwell failed once again and got out for a duck. KL Rahul was fighting at the other end but he too got out off Bumrah bowling and in the last over they needed 9 runs to win but Trent Boult gave only 8 runs and the match ended in a tie.
In Super Over Punjab batted first but Pooran, KL Rahul, and Deepak Hooda could manage only 5 runs off Bumrah bowling. Mumbai needed 6 runs to win but Mohammad Shami too bowled a tight over and gave only 5 runs to Rohit Sharma and Quinton de Kock.
And in the next Super Over Chris Jordan came to bowl for Punjab and he gave 11 runs to Kieron Pollard and Hardik Pandya and thus Punjab needed 12 runs to win. For Punjab, this time Chris Gayle and Mayank Agarwal came to bat, and for Mumbai, Boult bowled the super over. Gayle hit him for first ball six and then Mayank Agarwal hit two back to back fours and took their team home.
All the major stats and facts from the 36th match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab in Dubai :
4 - This was the 4th tied match of this IPL season and overall 13th tied match of Indian Premier League.
Tied Matches in IPL 2020 -
DC vs KXIP at Dubai, 2020
RCB vs MI at Dubai, 2020
SRH vs KKR at Abu Dhabi, 2020
MI vs KXIP at Dubai, 2020
Tied Matches in IPL -
RR vs KKR at Cape Town, 2009
CSK vs KXIP at Chennai, 2010
SRH vs RCB at Hyderabad, 2013
RCB vs Delhi Capitals at Bangalore, 2013
RR vs KKR at Abu Dhabi, 2014
RR vs KXIP at Ahmedabad, 2015
GL vs MI at Rajkot, 2017
DC vs KKR at Delhi, 2019
MI vs SRH at Mumbai, 2019
DC vs KXIP at Dubai, 2020
RCB vs MI at Dubai, 2020
SRH vs KKR at Abu Dhabi, 2020
MI vs KXIP at Dubai, 2020
10 - Glenn Maxwell bagged his 10th duck in the Indian Premier League. In this IPL season, he has scored only 58 runs in 9 matches so far.
525 - Runs KL Rahul has scored in this IPL - his third consecutive IPL season in which he has scored more than 500 runs.
KL Rahul in IPL -
2018 - 659 runs
2019 - 593 runs
2020 - 525* runs
Most runs for KXIP in a single IPL season -
659 - KL Rahul, 2018
616 - Shaun Marsh, 2008
593 - KL Rahul, 2019
552 - Glenn Maxwell, 2014
525* - KL Rahul, 2020
664 - Chris Gayle has scored 664 runs against Mumbai Indians in IPL - the fourth-most by any batsman.
Most runs against MI in IPL -
818 - Suresh Raina
733 - Shikhar Dhawan
711 - AB de Villiers
664 - Chris Gayle
663 - MS Dhoni
