Tilak Varma scored his second half-century in a row (75 runs from 33 balls), and Ryan Rickelton hammered 48 runs from just 23 balls for the Mumbai Indians on Thursday (May 14) to help them chase down the target of 201 runs in 19.5 overs and secure their fourth win of the ongoing IPL 2026 season. For MI, apart from the two left-handed batters, pacer Shardul Thakur also impressed with his performance. The Mumbai-based cricketer picked up 4 wickets for 39 runs in his quota of four overs to help Jasprit Bumrah kick off his Mumbai Indians captaincy stint with a win.
However, despite a win in Dharamsala, Mumbai Indians remain 9th in the points table, but their tally of points has now extended to 8.
On the other hand, Punjab Kings also remained 4th in the points
table with 13 points, but they have now lost five matches in a row, and their chances of finishing in the top four are now getting harder.
IPL 2026 points table after PBKS vs MI match on May 14
| POSITION | TEAM | MATCHES | WINS | DEFEATS | NO RESULT | POINTS | NRR |
| 1. | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1.053 |
| 2. | Gujarat Titans | 12 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0.551 |
| 3. | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 0.331 |
| 4. | Punjab Kings | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 0.355 |
| 5. | Chennai Super Kings | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0.185 |
| 6. | Rajasthan Royals | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0.082 |
| 7. | Delhi Capitals | 12 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 10 | -0.993 |
| 8. | Kolkata Knight Riders | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 0.198 |
| 9. | Mumbai Indians (E) | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 8 | -0.504 |
| 10. | Lucknow Super Giants (E) | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 6 | -0.907 |
Orange Cap
Prabhsimran Singh opened the innings for Punjab Kings on Thursday and scored a brilliant half-century for Shreyas Iyer’s men. He faced 32 balls during his stay at the crease, and with the help of 6 fours and 4 sixes, scored 57 runs. The 57-run knock by the uncapped Indian wicketkeeper-batter helped him extend his tally of runs to 439, and he is now 8th in the list of batters with the most runs in IPL 2026.
For PBKS, apart from Prabh, Cooper Connolly scored 21 runs from 22 balls, and MI opener Ryan Rickelton hammered 48 runs from 23 balls. They are 9th and 10th in the Orange Cap leaderboard with 436 and 430 runs, respectively.
SRH’s middle-order batter Heinrich Klaasen is leading the Orange Cap race in IPL 2026. He has amassed a total of 508 runs in 12 matches played so far for the Orange Army. Following him is Gujarat Titans opener Sai Sudharsan. The left-handed batter from Tamil Nadu has scored 501 runs in 12 matches for the Shubman Gill-led side.
Batting superstar Virat Kohli is in third position with 484 runs from 12 matches. The right-handed batter from Delhi, who is the highest run getter in IPL history, scored an unbeaten century (105 runs from 60 balls) for RCB in the 193-run chase against KKR in Raipur on Wednesday.
Orange Cap in IPL 2026 | Top Run-scorers
| POSITION | PLAYER | TEAM | MATCHES | RUNS | STRIKE RATE |
| 1. | Heinrich Klaasen | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 12 | 508 | 153.93 |
| 2. | Sai Sudharsan | Gujarat Titans | 12 | 501 | 155.10 |
| 3. | Virat Kohli | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 12 | 484 | 165.75 |
| 4. | Abhishek Sharma | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 12 | 481 | 209.13 |
| 5. | KL Rahul | Delhi Capitals | 12 | 477 | 177.98 |
| 6. | Shubman Gill | Gujarat Titans | 11 | 467 | 158.30 |
| 7. | Vaibhav Sooryavanshi | Rajasthan Royals | 11 | 440 | 236.35 |
| 8. | Prabhsimran Singh | Punjab Kings | 12 | 439 | 170.15 |
| 9. | Cooper Connolly | Punjab Kings | 12 | 436 | 162.08 |
| 10. | Ryan Rickelton | Mumbai Indians | 10 | 430 | 190.26 |
Purple Cap
Shardul Thakur was back in MI’s playing XI on Thursday, and the out-of-favour India pacer picked up four wickets for 39 runs in his quota of four overs. The four-fer by Shardul helped him extend his tally of wickets to 10 in this year’s IPL. He is now MI’s second-highest wicket-taker in IPL 2026. Only Allah Ghazanfar, who was not included in MI’s playing XI for Thursday’s match against PBKS, has picked up more wickets.
There was no change in the list of top 10 bowlers with most wickets in IPL 2026 on Thursday. RCB’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar is leading the Purple Cap race in IPL 2026 with 22 wickets in 12 matches, and Gujarat Titans fast bowler Kagiso Rabada has accounted for the dismissal of 21 batters so far. CSK’s Anshul Kamboj is third in the Purple Cap leaderboard with 19 wickets, and four bowlers have dismissed 16 batters each.
Purple Cap in IPL 2026 | Top Wicket-takers
| POSITION | PLAYER | TEAM | MATCHES | WICKETS | ECONOMY RATE |
| 1. | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 12 | 22 | 7.55 |
| 2. | Kagiso Rabada | Gujarat Titans | 12 | 21 | 9.15 |
| 3. | Anshul Kamboj | Chennai Super Kings | 11 | 19 | 9.20 |
| 4. | Rashid Khan | Gujarat Titans | 12 | 16 | 8.17 |
| 5. | Prince Yadav | Lucknow Super Giants | 11 | 16 | 8.17 |
| 6. | Kartik Tyagi | Kolkata Knight Riders | 11 | 16 | 8.89 |
| 7. | Eshan Malinga | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 12 | 16 | 9.63 |
| 8. | Jofra Archer | Rajasthan Royals | 11 | 15 | 9.12 |
| 9. | Jamie Overton | Chennai Super Kings | 10 | 14 | 8.89 |
| 10. | Prasidh Krishna | Gujarat Titans | 8 | 14 | 10.06 |
On Friday (May 15), Lucknow Super Giants will face Chennai Super Kings for the second time this season. The match between the two teams is scheduled to take place at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.
