In a high-stakes IPL 2025 encounter, Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya came out on top in the battle of captains as he dismissed his opposite number, Rishabh Pant, in a crucial moment for MI. Bowling a clever slower ball in the 11th over, Pandya induced a leading edge off Pant, who tried to work it to the leg side.<\/p>\n
The moment, however, belonged equally to substitute fielder Corbin Bosch. Sprinting in from mid-off, Bosch put in a brilliant one-handed diving effort to complete a sensational catch and send Pant back for just 2 off 6 deliveries. The dismissal marked Pandya\u2019s second wicket and further derailed LSG\u2019s innings after the fall of Mitchell Marsh earlier.<\/p>\n
Pant\u2019s recent form in IPL 2025 hasn\u2019t been promising either, with scores of 0(6), 15(15), 2(5), and now 2(6) in the season so far. With LSG in a tricky position, Pandya\u2019s breakthrough has given MI a strong upper hand as the match moves into the middle overs.<\/p>\n
At the end of 13 overs, Lucknow Super Giants are 123\/3<\/strong>, with Aiden Markram anchoring the innings on 39 (26)<\/em>* and Ayush Badoni batting on *6<\/em> (9)**. The top scorer so far has been Mitchell Marsh, who blasted 60 off 31 balls<\/strong>, including 9 fours and 2 sixes, before falling to Vignesh Puthur.<\/p>\n Nicholas Pooran contributed a quickfire 12 off 6 but was dismissed by Hardik Pandya, who now has figures of 2-0-12-2<\/strong>, leading MI\u2019s bowling effort from the front. Vignesh Puthur has also impressed, taking 1 for 22 in his 3 overs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n MI will now look to tighten the screws in the death overs and restrict LSG to a manageable total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a high-stakes IPL 2025 encounter, Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya came out on top in the battle of captains\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":42377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}