🏏IPL 2025 - Qualifier 2: PBKS vs MI at Ahmedabad @ 7:30pm🏏

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🏏IPL 2025 - Match 73 Qualifier 2:

PBKS vs MI on 1st June 2025 at Ahmedabad @ 7:30pm🏏

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Only three teams and two games remain in IPL 2025, as we wind down towards the end of the tournament with the race to the trophy really heating up. Royal Challengers Bengaluru have already booked their spot in the Final, but the team that joins them will come down to who wins in Qualifier 2 between Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians.

The two teams will both be disappointed if they don’t reach the finals after the seasons they have had, but the case remains that only one can. Here is a look at how both teams have reached this stage, and who has the advantage when it comes to their head-to-head record.

Road to Qualifier 2

Punjab Kings finished top of the IPL table as they consistently racked up wins throughout the IPL season, ultimately beating Mumbai themselves to clinch that top spot. However, a loss to RCB in Qualifier 1, in which Shreyas Iyer’s team never quite came to the party, means that they will need to get to the Finals the long way.Mumbai’s road was far more circuitous. After losing four of their first five matches, they received the boost of a returning Jasprit Bumrah, and immediately embarked on a six-match winning run to place themselves strongly in the playoff conversation. From there, they ensured they saw off Delhi Capitals in a virtual play-in match, qualifying in fourth, before putting together an impressive performance in the Eliminator against GT to reach the second Qualifier.


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Posted: 1 months ago
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Big picture: A mouth-watering knockout


After 72 matches and two gruelling months of play-travel-play, with a break in between, only three teams are left standing in IPL 2025: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Mumbai Indians (MI). While RCB have already qualified for the final, MI will meet PBKS in another crunch game on Sunday to identify the other finalist.
Five-time champions vs a team that is in quest for its first title. Hardik Pandya vs Shreyas Iyer. Jasprit Bumrah vs Arshdeep Singh. Suryakumar Yadav vs Josh Inglis. Trent Boult vs Kyle Jamieson. It promises to be a mouth-watering knockout.
Both teams have had contrasting paths to Qualifier 2. Around mid-April, MI were second from bottom, with just a solitary win in five games. But they went on to do MI things to storm into the playoffs and knock out Gujarat Titans (GT) on Friday. As for PBKS, they were the form team in the league phase, topping the points table before they suffered a rude jolt in Qualifier 1 against RCB in New Chandigarh.

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In the spotlight: Shreyas Iyer and Hardik Pandya

In Qualifier 1, Shreyas Iyer tried to slog-pull a Josh Hazlewood delivery that was neither short nor full, and ended up nicking it behind. His dismissal precipitated PBKS' slide in New Chandigarh, where he has managed only 27 runs in five innings this season. A potentially flatter pitch in Ahmedabad could suit his - and PBKS' - attacking approach. Iyer has hit 31 sixes in 302 balls this season. Only Suryakumar (35), Mitchell Marsh (37) and Nicholas Pooran (40) have struck more.

When he was captaining GT, Hardik Pandya more of an anchor than a hitter, but this season as MI's captain, he has been less of an anchor and more of a hitter, giving their innings the finishing kick. Between overs 17 and 20, he has clattered 109 off 53 balls at a strike rate of 205.66, the second highest among 16 batters who have faced at least 50 balls in this phase. Only Heinrich Klaasen is ahead of Pandya with a strike rate of 237.03.

Both PBKS and MI have hitting depth, which has perhaps allowed Shreyas and Hardik to bat with greater freedom this IPL.

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Team news and likely XIIs: Chahal set to return

Yuzvendra Chahal, who missed PBKS' last three games, including the Eliminator, with a wrist injury, bowled on the eve of the Eliminator and looks set to return and strengthen the attack. If PBKS bat first, Chahal might come in as Impact Player in the second innings when they bowl.

Punjab Kings (probable): 1 Prabhsimran Singh, 2 Priyansh Arya, 3 Josh Inglis (wk), 4 Shreyas Iyer (capt), 5 Nehal Wadhera, 6 Shashank Singh, 7 Marcus Stoinis, 8 Azmatullah Omarzai, 9 Harpreet Brar/Vyshak Vijaykumar, 10 Kyle Jamieson, 11 Arshdeep Singh, 12 Yuzvendra Chahal


Deepak Chahar and Richard Gleeson are nursing hamstring issues, and it remains to be seen if they are fit for Qualifier 2. While Chahar missed the Eliminator, Gleeson left the field midway through the final over on Friday. He will have a short turnaround before Qualifier 2 on Sunday. If he doesn't recover in time, his England compatriot Reece Topley is likely to replace him.

Mumbai Indians (probable): 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 3 Suryakumar Yadav, 4 Tilak Varma, 5 Hardik Pandya (capt), 6 Naman Dhir, 7 Mitchell Santner, 8 Raj Bawa, 9 Richard Gleeson/Reece Topley, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Trent Boult, 12 Ashwani Kumar

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Pitch and conditions

Sunday's match will most likely be played on a red-soil pitch that hosted Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR). Six of the seven games in Ahmedabad have been won by teams batting first this season. There were spells of mild drizzle during PBKS' training session on the eve of Qualifier 2.

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Key stats

  • Chahal has the wood over both Bairstow and Suryakumar in the IPL. The legspinner has dismissed Bairstow four times in six IPL innings while keeping him to 29 off 35 balls. Chahal has also limited Suryakumar to 83 off 71 balls while dismissing him three times in the IPL.
  • Bumrah has dominated Marcus Stoinis in the IPL. The match-up reads: 28 runs, 36 balls, three wickets.
  • Rohit Sharma has made four 50-plus scores in an IPL season for the first time since 2016.
  • Iyer is one away from 50 wins as IPL captain.
Posted: 1 months ago
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Mumbai Indians

Injuries/ Unavailability: No major injury concern and the word from the MI camp is Deepak Chahar, who missed out on Eliminator, is fit to take the field.

Tactics & Match-ups: MI are on a five-match losing streak at the venue, having won only game in six matches here, but those numbers should not faze the Hardik Pandya-led side. MI seamers have been in good form with the new ball, picking up 23 wickets at a strike rate of 21.6 and that should be a good antidote to contain the free-flowing stroke play of the Punjab openers.

Punjab Kings

Injuries/Unavailability: Barring Yuzvendra Chahal, who missed Qualifier 1, all others are fit. Chahal was seen actively bowling on the sidelines of covered pitch at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Saturday evening but he was seen doing the same routine on the eve of Qualifier 1 too. His availability is not guaranteed although not ruled out totally.

Tactics & Match-ups: Skipper Shreyas Iyer will be relieved to move away from New Chandigarh, where he has managed just 27 runs in five games. In contrast, he has scored 489 runs from 10 away matches this season. Ahmedabad, in particular, should lift his spirits. He began the season here with a dominating 97 versus GT. On the bowling front, Punjab Kings may look to Arshdeep Singh to counter Rohit Sharma. The left-arm pacer has dismissed Rohit once, and notably, Rohit has fallen to left-arm pace four times this season. Since 2024, he has scored 155 runs off 103 balls against left-arm quicks across eight games.

Posted: 1 months ago
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Did you know?

- Since giving up captaincy in 2024, Rohit has had two 400+ seasons on the bounce, a first for him since 2015-16. Four 50+ scores for him this season is the most for him in an IPL edition since the start of IPL 2017.

- Suryakumar Yadav is the leading run-getter in middle overs (7-15) scoring two-fifths of runs by MI batters in this phase. Suryakumar has scored 12.90% of Mumbai's total runs, the second highest share among all batters in IPL 2025. He is 263 runs ahead of Mumbai's second highest run getter, the highest such difference between the top two run-getters this season for a team.

- Arshdeep's form has tapered off post resumption. In eight Powerplay overs since resumption, Arshdeep's eight overs has gone for 92 runs without a wicket to show for.

Posted: 1 months ago
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Probable Best Batter of the Match:

Probable Best Batter of the Match: Suryakumar Yadav

Suryakumar Yadav has been exemplary in this year's IPL. He has registered 25-plus scores in 15 consecutive innings. The right-handed batter has averaged 67.30 and scored his runs at a strike rate of 167.84. He is second in the list of leading run-getters in IPL 2025, with 673 runs from 15 innings

Probable Best Bowler of the Match:

Probable Best Bowler of the Match: Jasprit Bumrah

Jasprit Bumrah has been as consistent as ever since returning from an injury. He missed the first few games but has looked in top form ever since his comeback. In the Eliminator, he floored Washington Sundar with a crushing yorker, just when the southpaw was threatening to take the game away with Sai Sudharsan for company. Bumrah has taken 18 wickets from 11 games in IPL 2025 at an average of 15.33.

Posted: 1 months ago
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Today's Match Prediction: Chasing team to win the match

IPL 2025: Qualifier 2, PBKS vs MI Match Prediction: Who will win today IPL match?

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