After winning the toss and opting to bowl first, the Punjab bowlers were put to the sword by the Mumbai batsmen. In the powerplay, Prithvi Shaw flayed it to all parts on his way to a 27-ball 53 to set the platform for the middle-order, before Suryakumar Yadav and Shreyas Iyer put together 140 runs in 63 balls in a breathtaking partnership. Mumbai ended with 243-3 in 20 overs, needing to restrict Punjab to 150 to pip Karnataka on net run-rate and go through to the semi-finals.
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Gill spoils Mumbai's party; Karnataka go through
Rahul Tripathi top scored with 61 © BCCI
Punjab, however, had different plans. Led by Gill and Abhishek Sharma up front, they went after the target, and comfortably breached the 150-run mark in the 14th over, ensuring Mumbai were knocked outand Karnataka went through to the semi-finals. Punjab eventually fell 23 runs short of their targetbut got impressively close to the target in a run-fest that saw 464 runs scored in 40 overs.
Mumbai 243-3 in 20 overs(Shreyas Iyer 80*, Suryakumar Yadav 80; Harpreet Brar 2-44)beat Punjab 221-6 in 20 overs(Shubman Gill 78, Abhishek Sharma 47; Tushar Deshpande 2-35)by 22 runs
Sundar, Siddharth lead TN rout against Jharkhand
After winning the toss and opting to bat at Surat, Jharkhand's decision proved to be a disastrous one as they struggled to get going and time the ball throughout the innings. With a highest partnership of 17 runs, regular wickets pegged them back against Tamil Nadu as Washington Sundar (4-0-10-3) and M Siddharth (4-1-18-4) ran through the batting order to skittle them out for 85 in 18.1 overs.
A relatively slow start in chase of a paltry 86, in addition to a couple of wickets, may have just about start to trigger a panic attack, but Washington Sundar, promoted to No. 3, seemed to be in a hurry and raced to a 22-ball 38 to see Tamil Nadu through to a clinical win over Jharkhand on the final day of the Super League.
Tamil Nadu end the Super League at the top of the table, with three wins and one loss, with a semi-final spot theirs, whereas Jharkhand end with four losses in four games at the bottom of Group B.
