IPL 2023: Liam Livingstone's 82 in vain as Mumbai Indians chase 215 to beat Punjab Kings

Liam Livingstone erstwhile precocious people astatine this year's IPL was 40

Liam Livingstone's 82 not retired was successful vain arsenic Mumbai Indians chased 215 to bushed Punjab Kings by six wickets successful the Indian Premier League.

Archer finished with 0-56 - the astir costly T20 figures of his career.

But Ishan Kishan deed 75 and Suryakumar Yadav 66 connected a level transportation arsenic Mumbai raced location with 7 balls to spare.

Mumbai mislaid skipper Rohit Sharma for a three-ball duck successful the archetypal implicit and Australia all-rounder Cameron Green for 23 successful the sixth implicit earlier a dazzling basal of 116 from 55 balls betwixt India internationals Kishan and Suryakumar.

They needed 45 from 30 balls erstwhile Suryakumar was caught disconnected Nathan Ellis, and Kishan was taken astatine heavy good limb to commencement the adjacent over, but Tim David made 19 not retired and Tilak Varma an unbeaten 26.

England all-rounder Sam Curran, who took 0-41 from 3 overs, enactment down a hard accidental disconnected David successful his follow-through erstwhile 17 runs were inactive needed.

Livingstone's 82, which came from 42 balls, was his archetypal 50 since returning from wounded past period and his highest people astatine the IPL.

The all-rounder shared an unbroken basal of 119 from 53 balls with Jitesh Sharma aft the Kings slipped to 95-3 successful the 12th implicit - Jitesh ending 49 not retired from 27.

Archer bowled 1 bouncer astatine 95mph successful his spell but conceded 27 from the penultimate over, including Livingstone's 3 sixes and 5 wides connected a hard transportation for gait bowlers.

"I really had luncheon with Jofra contiguous helium said helium was coming astatine me," said Livingstone, who was sidelined for astir 5 months aft injuring his genu during England's Test circuit of Pakistan successful December.

"It was 1 of those pitches you felt you could get clasp of seam.

"It is bully personally to yet get a fewer retired of the mediate aft a spot of a rusty commencement to the tournament."

The triumph for Mumbai, their 2nd palmy pursuit of much than 210 successful a row, lifts them to sixth, level connected points with Punjab, Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore successful a congested table.

Gujarat Titans pb connected 12 points, 1 wide of Lucknow Super Giants and Chennai Super Kings.

Earlier connected Wednesday, the lucifer betwixt Lucknow and Chennai was washed out.