MI vs KXIP, IPL 2018: Mumbai Indians beat Kings XI Punjab by three runs

A Tye to H Pandya, Short of a length ball, angling in, Hardik closes the face of the bat too early as he looks to work that on the leg side but gets a leading edge to covers.

Tye comes on to bowl.

R Ashwin to Ben Cutting, Flatter ball on the middle and off stump line, Cutting ends up defending it down the track.

R Ashwin to H Pandya, Driven towards the mid on region. They pick up a single.

R Ashwin to Ben Cutting, Quicker ball from Ashwin on the middle and leg stump line, Cutting paddles it away to fine leg for a single.

Ben Cutting walks out to bat.

R Ashwin to K Pollard, OUT! Taken in the deep by Finch! So, the gamble of bringing himself into the attack has worked for Ashwin. The big-hitting West Indian departs straight after reaching the milestone. A loopy delivery wide outside off from the off spinner, he makes Pollard reach out for it who toe ends the big shot to wide long off. Finch near the rope rushes to his left and stretches a little to hold on to a sharp chance.

R Ashwin to H Pandya, Flipper from Ashwin well outside off, Hardik reaches out for it and mistimes the square cut on the off side. Single taken.

R Ashwin to H Pandya, Floated delivery, a carrom ball from Ashwin on middle, Hardik defends it on the leg side.

Ashwin to bowl.

Strategic break.

M Stoinis to K Pollard, SIX! Biggie! Fifty to Pollard, his 13th in the Indian T20 League! Fuller length ball right in the slot for the big man who smokes it hard and flat over the long off boundary. 17 runs from the over and Mumbai have reached the 150-mark.

M Stoinis to K Pollard, FOUR! Pollard slices it with the opened face and carves it over point. Yuvraj in the deep puts in the dive after covering good ground to his left but fails to stop it.

M Stoinis to K Pollard, FOUR! Stoinis spears in a good yorker outside off, Pollard jams his bat down in time and gets a thick edge right between the keeper and short third man. It goes all the way to the fence.

M Stoinis to H Pandya, High full toss from Stoinis and Hardik powers it to long on for a single.

Hardik Pandya walks out to bat.

M Stoinis to K Pandya, OUT! Stoinis strikes! So, it's the slower ball again that does the trick. That ends the 65-run partnership. Bumper from Stoinis and it is an off pace delivery, Krunal has to delay his shot and ends up mistiming it to short fine leg. Ankit Rajpoot inside the circle takes a dolly. Punjab desperately needed this breakthrough to stem the flow of runs. Mumbai have lost half their side and there are still 34 balls to go.