An unbeaten century from Quinton de Kock has guided the Mumbai Indians to post 195 runs in the IPL 2026 game against the Punjab Kings at Wankhede.
He smashed 112* runs off 60 deliveries, which included 8 fours and 7 sixes. He also became the 2nd cricketer, after Sanju Samson, to score a century in the ongoing season. Apart from de Kock, Naman Dhir was the second-highest run getter, scoring 50 runs off 31 deliveries.
After being invited to bat first, Ryan Rickelton and Quinton de Kock opened the innings while Arshdeep Singh opened the bowling attack. With the Mumbai Indians struggling to score runs in the first two overs, Arshdeep Singh picked the wicket of Ryan Rickelton, who hit it straight to Shashank Singh at deep square leg.
He also reached his 100th IPL wicket with this dismissal. With his dismissal for 2 runs, Suryakumar Yadav also lost his wicket on the very next ball in the golden duck putting pressure on Mumbai Indians.
However, Quinton de Kock and Naman Dhir forged a 100+ run partnership and de Kock smashed his 28-ball fifty. He smashed his 25th IPL fifty, while Naman Dhir brought his fifty on 29 deliveries.
In search of wicket, Shashank Singh came to bowl and bagged the wicket of Naman Dhir. Hardik Pandya who came to bat scored only 12 runs before being dismissed on a stunning catch at long on. Shreyas Iyer runs to the long-on and leaped to take the catch in air and thrown the ball to Xavier Bartlett where he took at ease.
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Sherfane Rutherford who came to bat struggled after a fierce yorkers from Arshdeep Singh and got bowled out for 1 run.
Tilak Varma who came to bat in the last ball of the prenultimate over, scored 8 runs off 3 deliveries before being dismissed on a run out.
With Mayank Rawat and Quinton de Kock at crease, Mumbai Indians went on to score 195 in their 20 over innings. Arshdeep Singh bagged three wickets while Marco Jansen and Shashank Singh bagged one wicket each.
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