The Punjab Kings (PBKS) Shashank Singh prediction came true on Monday after his team defeated the Mumbai Indians (MI) to seal a place in the first two in the Playoffs of IPL 2025.

Before the tournament, Shank had predicted that Punjab Kings would describe for the IPL 2025 playoffs as one of the two best teams. Even the kings of Punjab predicted to overcome the IPL 2025 classification.

Punjab Kings jumped ahead of Gujarat’s Titans to take the number one place in the IPL 2025 classification for now. The team led by Shreyas Iyer has finished the league stage with 19 points of 14 games.

“Punjab Kings Number 1. Top 2 Pe Bol Raha Hu, Punjab Kings Number 1 Peish Karega Points Table Pe (I’m saying Top 2. The kings of Punjab will end up in the first place in the points table),” said Shashank Singh on the Shubhankar Mishra YouTube channel in March.

How PBK beat me

Punjab Kings had won the raffle and chose to sign against the Mumbai Indians. The openers of the Indians of Mumbai, Ryan Rickelton (27) and Rohit Sharma (24) began, but before the duo could steal the impulse of the kings of Punjab, Marco Jansen attacked in the sixth place to remove his South African teammate Rickelton.

The Mumbai Indians finished the power game with a total of 52/1, but continued to lose regular wicks with Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma and Will Jacks following the same. However, Suryakumar Yadav stood up with a 57 -ball races and took the five -time champions to 184/7 of 20 overs.

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In his persecution, Punjab Kings lost Prabhsimran Singh (13) in fifth place, but Priyansh Arya (62) and Josh Inglis (73) forged 109 races for the second Wickt to put the platform for a victory to Punjab Kings. Towards the end of the game, Punjab Kings lost Arya and English in a three overs gap. The kings of Punjab were 171/3 in 18 when they lost English, but the victory was in sight. Shreyas Iyer (26*) and Nehal Wadhera (2*) made sure that the kings of Punjab cure home with seven wickts and nine outbound balls.

Punjab Kings will play in qualifier 1 on May 29 at his home in Mullanpur, while Mumbai’s Indians will play as a eliminator in the same place a day later.

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