Punjab Kings XI registered their third consecutive win, by defending a meagre total of 120 and emerging, as one of the potential contenders for title. Match went down, to the wire, where either team had shot, at a win, till the final ball was bowled.

Earlier Yuvraj Singh won toss and opted to bat, but only to witness his batsmen falling apart like nine pins. Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar asserted the fact that, he has one of best brains around, by bringing in Harbhajan singh well before six over and the move accounted for stumping of Karan Goel.

What appeared a tactical sedate start, by Ravi Bopara turned into a horrendous one, when he edged a drive through half side to Sachin. Punjab batsmen never appeared to have measure of Mumbai Indians bowling attack and catastrophe was evident when Yuvraj singh got out to a part time bowler like J .P duminy.

Kumar Sangakkara appeared to be the batsmen out from Mars, when other batsmen were struggling at other end, he made a solid fort five runs of fort three balls, which helped them, to post a total of one hundred and nineteen runs. Lasith Malinga was once again impressive, by finishing his spell of four overs for mere twelve runs and two wickets.

Chasing a paltry target of 120, Mumbai Indians made a worst possible start, by losing Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya, within first two over. Irfan Pathan showed ominous signs of his return, to his honey moon days with his new ball bowling and he claimed two crucial wickets in his four over spell.

Yusuf Abdullah, who was deliberately, denied a hand on the new ball returned to remove Shikar Dhawan with a great Yorker length delivery. It came up to J.P duminy and Dwayne Bravo foreign recruits of Mumbai Indians, to guide them home, but things went awry, once they lost Dwayne Bravo of bowling of Ramesh Powar.

Mumbai Indians batsmen did not look settled for a chase, at any point of time, losing their bastmen regularly where Duminy was lone exception. Piyush Chawla bowled a beautiful penultimate over, accounting for wicket of Harbhajan Singh and handed over a ordeal situation for Mumbai Indians, where they have to get 12 runs for victory.

With Duminy and Saurabh Tiwary in the middle, Yusuf Abdullah came on to bowl the final over. A first ball dot, two in second ball and a wide followed by it led to a nail biting setting of needing nine runs out of four balls to clinch the victory.

Yusuf Abdullah held the nerve in battle of South Africans as he conquered Duminy with a slower ball for fifty nine runs and led Punjab Kings to a great victory.