MI vs PBKS Highlights, IPL 2025 Qualifier 2, Ahmedabad Weather updates: Shreyas Iyer shines as Punjab Kings beat Mumbai Indians to enter final

Shashank Singh, in an exclusive interview with TimesofIndia.com, had given Shreyas Iyer a new moniker: Punjab Kings' "captain fantastic." "He has his own swag, he has his own aura, and he backs his own instinct," Shashank, who had played with Iyer in age-group cricket in Mumbai, had to say about his IPL captain.

On Sunday, in a rain-affected Qualifier 2, Shreyas Iyer displayed everything that Shashank was talking about. He didn't celebrate his half-century; he batted with surety, and it looked like he was calculating the chase in his mind. Chasing 204, Iyer, who is called 'sarpanch' (head of the village) by Punjab Kings fans, took charge. In the 13th over bowled by Reece Topley, Shreyas hammered a hat-trick of sixes, each better than the last one.

Iyer (87 not out off 41 balls; 5x4s, 8x6s) guided Punjab Kings to their first IPL final in 11 years. Punjab Kings defeated Mumbai Indians by five wickets at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

MI vs PBKS Live Score: Shreyas & IPL final!

Shreyas Iyer has now led three different teams to IPL finals - DC in 2020, KKR in 2024, and PBKS in 2025.

No other player has done it for more than one team.

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: The chase of 204 by Punjab Kings

* Highest ever in IPL Playoffs/Knockout

* First time ever 200+ successfully chased vs MI

* Eighth time PBKS have chased 200+, the most by a team in IPL

* Ninth successful 200+ chase in IPL 2025, the most in a single edition

MI vs PBKS Live Score: Most sixes by a PBKS batter in a season

39 - Shreyas Iyer (2025) *
36 - Glenn Maxwell (2014)
34 - Chris Gayle (2019)
34 - Liam Livingstone (2022)
32 - KL Rahul (2018)

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: It's all over! Punjab beat Mumbai to enter the final

6 N 6 0 6 0 Wd 6 - What a finish! Shreyas Iyer (87* off 41) finishes off the run chase in style, hitting the fourth six of the over. He scored 26 runs in the penultimate over, bowled by Ashwani Kumar (2 for 55).

Punjab Kings will now face Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the final on Tuesday at the same venue.

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: SIX! SIX!

BOOM! Shreyas Iyer smokes three sixes in the 19th over and Punjab are on the verge of victory.

PBKS need 4 off 8 balls

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: SIX!

BOOM! Shreyas Iyer (69*) smokes Ashwani Kumar over long-on for a massive six first ball of the penultimate over of the run chase.

Punjab are definitely on the course and their captain is leading it in style.

PBKS 187/5 in 18.1 overs, need 17 off 11 balls

MI vs PBKS Live Score: PBKS need 23 off 12 balls

1 4 0 1 1 1 - Punjab batters see off Jasprit Bumrah's final over, scoring 8 runs from it. Bumrah went wicketless tonight as he returned figures of 0 for 40 in 4 overs.

Shreyas Iyer (63* off 34) is leading from the front for Punjab.

PBKS 181/5 after 18 overs | Target 204

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: OUT! Shashank falls

RUN OUT! Shashank Singh (2) is run-out and Punjab lost two wickets in quick succession. Is the tide shifting now?

Hardik Pandya with the direct hit for MI to remove the PBKS batter.

PBKS 169/5 in 16.4 overs | Target 204

MI vs PBKS Live Score: FIFTY for Shreyas Iyer!

FOUR! Shreyas Iyer brings up his fifty in style, a four off Trent Boult towards third man - depth touch. Iyer took just 27 balls to reach the milestone as he hit four sixes and three fours in his innings so far.

PBKS 168/4 in 16.2 overs | Target 204

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: OUT! Wadhera falls

BIG WICKET! Ashwani Kumar gives Mumbai Indians a massive breakthrough. Nehal Wadhera miscues it and Mitchell Santner takes the catch at extra cover. Big wicket, but is it little late for MI as PBKS need 48 to win off 26 balls.

Wadhera missed out on a fifty, departed for 48 off 29 balls, which included two sixes and four fours.

PBKS 156/4 in 15.4 overs | Target 204

MI vs PBKS Live Score: SIX!

BOOM! Nehal Wadhera (47*) smokes it straight down the ground for a six off Ashwani Kumar. It brings up 150 for Punjab Kings.

PBKS 153/3 in 15.1 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: PBKS need 57 off 30 balls

2 0 1 0 1 1 - No wickets but Jasprit Bumrah bowled another tidy one - just five runs off it.

Punjab Kings are on course of the big chase with Shreyas Iyer (41*) and Nehal Wadhera (41*) in the middle.

PBKS 147/3 after 15 overs

MI vs PBKS Live Score: PBKS need 62 off 36 balls

1 2 1 4 4 Wd 1 - Another big one for Punjab Kings. Nehal Wadhera (37* off 22) smashed two fours off Trent Boult in it - one an outside edge and the other a stunning drive towards long-off. Punjab are cruising at the moment with both Wadhera and Shreyas Iyer going in fifth gear.

MI need wickets soon to be back in the contest.

PBKS 142/3 after 14 overs | Target 204

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: Shreyas on fire!

BOOM! 6, 6, 6 - Shreyas Iyer (37*) smokes three successive sixes off Reece Topley. What a strike.

Punjab are on top now.

PBKS 128/3 in 12.4 overs | Target 204

MI vs PBKS Live Score: PBKS need 95 off 48 balls

2 0 2 1 1 1 - Hardik Pandya brought back Jasprit Bumrah to give the team a breakthrough at this stage. No wicket, but it was a tidy one - just seven runs off it.

PBKS 109/3 in 12 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: Tidy from Ashwani!

1 0 2 0 0 1 - Excellent over at this stage from Ashwani Kumar. No boundaries and just four runs off it.

PBKS 101/3 after 11 overs | Target 204

MI vs PBKS Live Score: PBKS need 106 off 60 balls

1 6 1 4 1 4 - DROPPED! Trent Boult drops a sitter at fine leg to give Nehal Wadhera, on 13, a life. Boult reached to the right place but missed it completely. It could be very expensive for Mumbai. The ball went for a boundary after that.

Expensive one from Hardik Pandya - leaked 17 runs in it. Punjab Kings are back in the hunt.

PBKS 98/3 after 10 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: SIX!

Nehal Wadhera (12*) goes big and the top-edge takes the ball over the backward square leg boundary for a maximum off Hardik Pandya.

PBKS 88/3 in 9.2 overs

MI vs PBKS Live Score: PBKS 64/2 in 9 overs, need 123 in 66 balls

Time-out! Nehal Wadhera hits a four off the last ball to score nine runs off Mitchell Santner.

It's even-steven in Ahmedabad at the moment.

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: OUT! Inglis falls

Massive breakthrough! Hardik Pandya strikes in his first over, dismisses 'dangerous' Josh Inglis (38 off 21 balls).

Inglis took a review but lost it as there was a visible spike in the replay. Simple catch for Jonny Bairstow behind the stump.

PBKS 72/3 in 7.5 overs | Target 204

MI vs PBKS Live Score: Powerplay highlights | PBKS 64/2 in 6 overs

* Prabhsimran opens his account with a crisp boundary.
* Boult draws first blood, dismisses Prabhsimran (6) with a sharp short ball.
* Inglis finds his rhythm early, smashes back-to-back fours off Boult.
* Priyansh takes on Topley, collects 14 runs in the over with aggressive intent.
* Inglis dismantles Bumrah’s over: 4, 0, 6, 0, 4, 6 – a stunning 20-run assault.
* Ashwani strikes with his very first ball – Priyansh mistimes to mid-off.
* Shreyas Iyer eases in with a classy boundary to get off the mark.

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: End of PP!

FOUR! Josh Inglis (33* off 13) ends the over with a four towards long-off as Ashwani Kumar conceded 9 runs in it.

Good one for MI though as they took a wicket in it too - that of in-form Priyansh Arya.

PBKS 64/2 in 6 overs | Target 204

MI vs PBKS Live Score: OUT! Arya falls

BIG WICKET! Impact player Ashwani Kumar strikes first ball to dismiss Priyansh Arya (20 off 10). Hardik Pandya completed a simple catch at mid-off.

After an expensive Bumrah over, MI struck immediately in the very next over.

PBKS 55/2 in 5.1 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: Expensive start for Bumrah!

4 0 6 0 4 6 - Wow! Josh Inglis has just smoked 20 runs off Jasprit Bumrah - two fours and two sixes. Inglis ended the over with a cut shot over the third man fielder for a maximum.

PBKS 55/1 after 5 overs | Target 204

MI vs PBKS Live Score: FOUR!

BOOM! Josh Inglis welcomes Jasprit Bumrah with a stunning four towards deep mid-wicket. What a shot.

PBKS 39/1 in 4.1 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: SIX!

Priyansh Arya smashes it over long-on for a six off Reece Topley. This after he started the over with a four.

Arya is keeping the scoreboard ticking for Punjab after early blow.

PBKS 33/1 in 3.4 overs

MI vs PBKS Live Score: OUT! Prabhsimran falls

Big Wicket! Trent Boult gives Mumbai Indians an early breakthrough, dismissing Prabhsimran Singh (6). Reece Topley takes a good running catch from short fine leg. Boult gives the thumbs up.

What a catch.

PBKS 13/1 in 2.1 overs | Target 204

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: FOUR!

Priyansh Arya hits a four off the last ball, flicking it over square leg for his first boundary. But it was a good, tidy one from Reece Topley - just seven runs off it.

PBKS 13/0 after 2 overs | Target 204

MI vs PBKS Live Score: Tidy!

Trent Boult started his spell with a tidy one - just six runs off it despite Prabhsimram hitting a four off the second delivery. The boundary was followed by three dot balls.

PBKS 6/0 after 1 over | Target 204

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: FOUR!

BOOM! Prabhsimran Singh starts with a first-ball four off Trent Boult. On the leg and Singh flicks it over square leg fielder for a boundary.

PBKS 5/0 in 0.2 overs

MI vs PBKS Live Score: Welcome Back! The chase begins ...

Trent Boult with the ball for Mumbai Indians.

Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh in the middle for Punjab Kings to start the run chase.

Target - 204

MI vs PBKS Live Score: STATS!

* Tenth instance of a team scoring 200+ runs in Ahmedabad in IPL 2025. Only once has more 200+ scores posted at a venue in a single T20 tournament - 12 in Rawalpindi in PSL 2023.

* First time a team has scored 200+ in an IPL Playoff/Knockout game without an individual 50+ score.

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: That's it! Mumbai Indians 203/6

4 0 W L1 2 3 - Good final over from Azmatullah Omarzai, just 10 runs off it and a big wicket of Naman Dhir.

In the end, a good, competitive total from MI, and they have never lost a match after putting up 200.

So, it will be a record chase for Punjab Kings, if they have to qualify for the final.

MI vs PBKS Live Score: OUT! Naman falls

BIG WICKET! Second wicket for Azmatullah Omarzai, dismisses Naman Dhir.

Dhir scored 37 off 18 balls, hitting seven fours.

MI 197/6 in 19.3 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: Good one for MI

4 1 2 1 4 1 - Naman Dhir (33*) smashed two fours off Arshdeep Singh to score 13 runs off the penultimate over of the innings.

MI 193/5 after 19 overs

MI vs PBKS Live Score: OUT! Hardik falls

Big wicket! Azmatullah Omarzai gets the better of Hardik Pandya. Timely breakthrough for Punjab as both MI batters were set and ready for final assault.

Hardik (15) top-edged it and keeper Josh Inglis took a simple catch.

MI 180/5 after 18 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: FOUR! FOUR! FOUR!

4 4 1 1 0 4 - Naman Dhir (18*) smashed three fours off Arshdeep Singh to collect 14 runs from it.

Big one for MI as they look for a big finish.

MI 170/4 in 17 overs

MI vs PBKS Live Score: Over throw runs!

1 2 1 0 0 6 - Hardik Pandya gets four extra runs as a gift from Punjab fielders.

Vijaykumar Vyshak was having a tidy over until an overthrow on the final delivery proved costly — the batters ran two, and the ball raced away for four more. What should have been a six-run over ended up costing 10.

MI 156/4 after 16 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: OUT! Tilak falls

BIG WICKET! Soon after time-out, MI lost another set batter - Tilak Varma gone for 44. Varma hit two fours and two sixes in his 29-ball knock.

Priyansh Arya takes a good running catch. Kyle Jamieson with the wicket for PBKS.

Two wickets in two overs and MI have two new batters in the middle.

Timely breakthroughs for Punjab Kings.

MI 142/4 in 14.1 overs

MI vs PBKS Live Score: OUT! Surya falls

BIG WICKET! Yuzvendra Chahal gets rid of 'dangerous' Suryakumar Yadav. Surya hits it straight to Nehal Wadhera in the deep.

Surya scored 44 off 26 balls, which included three sixes and four fours.

MI 142/3 in 13.5 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: 703* runs for Suryakumar Yadav

* 12th batters overall & first for MI

* First to do so without opening even once

* His SR of 167.78* is the highest among the 12 batters with 700+ run seasons.

MI vs PBKS Live Score: FOUR!

Suryakumar Yadav (30*) hits a four over short third man off Kyle Jamieson. It brings up 700 runs for Surya this season, second batter after Sai Sudharsan to the milestone.

MI 127/2 in 12.2 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: SIX!

Suryakumar Yadav (23*) smokes Yuzvendra Chahal for another maximum.

Runs are coming thick and fast for MI at the moment. 220 plus is on the card for sure.

MI 118/2 in 11.1 overs

MI vs PBKS Live Score: Most runs by a non-opener in an IPL season

691* - Suryakumar Yadav (2023)

687 - AB de Villiers (2016)

684 - Rishabh Pant (2018)

622 - Kane Williamson (2018)

605 - Suryakumar Yadav (2023)

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: 100 up for MI!

6 1 1 0 2 4 - Suryakumar Yadav (16*) started the over with a six and finished it off with a four to collect 14 runs from Yuzvendra Chahal.

The four off last ball also brought up 100 for Mumbai Indians. A solid foundation is set for a big total today for MI.

MI 102/2 after 10 overs

MI vs PBKS Live Score: Surya on fire!

BOOM! Suryakumar Yadav (9*) smokes it over short fine leg for a six off Yuzvendra Chahal. What a shot - classic scoop-sweep from Mr. 360.

MI 94/2 in 9.1 overs

IPL 2025 Qualifier 2 Live Score: BOOM!

SIX! Tilak Varma (31* off 19) smokes Vijaykumar Vyshak over long-off for a big six. What a shot.

4 1 1 N1 1 6 0 - Tilak had started the over with a four too. 15 runs off it, a good one for Mumbai Indians.

Time for first time-out!

MI 88/2 after 9 overs

MI vs PBKS Live Score: Tidy from Chahal!

1 0 1 1 0 0 - Yuzvendra Chahal came into the attack and started his spell with a very tidy over - just three singles off it.

MI 73/2 after 8 overs