Punjab beats Mumbai to set up showdown with Bengaluru in IPL final

AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Shreyas Iyer hit a 41-ball 87 not out as Punjab Kings beat Mumbai Indians by five wickets on Sunday in a rain-delayed Qualifier 2 to reach the final of the Indian Premier League.

Skipper Iyer led from the front as he smashed eight sixes and five fours to lead Punjab to only its second IPL final.

Punjab set up a title clash with Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Tuesday – also in Ahmedabad. Neither team has ever won the IPL.

Punjab scored 207-5 to chase down Mumbai’s 203-6 (20 overs) with an over to spare.

This was after the game was delayed by more than two hours because of rain. No overs were lost and the match started at 9:40 p.m. local time.

After losing the toss, Mumbai started quickly with Jonny Bairstow scoring 38 off 24 balls, including two sixes, after Rohit Sharma was out cheaply for eight.

Bairstow and Tilak Varma (44) added 51 for the second wicket.

Varma then put on 72 runs off seven overs with Suryakumar Yadav, whose 26-ball 44 included three sixes. Their partnership saw Mumbai heading for a 200-plus total.

But wrist spinner Yuzvendra Chahal provided the breakthrough in the 14th over and then Afghanistan all-rounder Azmatullah Omarzai struck twice in the death overs as Mumbai lost steam.

Naman Dhir scored 37 off 18 but Mumbai was short by about 20 runs on a fine batting surface.

Left-arm pacer Trent Boult provided the early wicket for Mumbai when in-form opener Prabhsimran Singh was out for six. Co-opener Priyansh Arya was also out for 20.

Josh Inglis helped provide the momentum with 38 off 21 balls. But Iyer took over thereafter, helped by Nehal Wadhera's 48 off 29.

Even star pacer Jasprit Bumrah couldn’t unleash his magic – he went for 0-40 in four overs.

Iyer hit 50 off 27 balls – his sixth half-century of the season – and then accelerated further, scoring the next 37 off only 14 balls.

He hit four sixes either side of his 50-mark, signaling the end of Mumbai’s campaign.

Punjab featured in the 2014 IPL final, losing to Kolkata Knight Riders.

Bengaluru has previously finished runners-up in 2009, 2011 and 2016.

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Mumbai Indians' captain Hardik Pandya reacts after losing the Indian Premier League cricket match against Punjab Kings at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Punjab Kings' captain Shreyas Iyer celebrates after scoring fifty runs during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Punjab Kings' captain Shreyas Iyer, left, and teammate Marcus Stoinis leave after winning the Indian Premier League cricket match against Mumbai Indians at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Mumbai Indians' captain Hardik Pandya, left, congratulates Punjab Kings' captain Shreyas Iyer on winning the Indian Premier League cricket match at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Punjab Kings' captain Shreyas Iyer plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Punjab Kings and Mumbai Indians at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.

A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday, regional Gov. Alexander Gusev said on Telegram.

Three other people were wounded and more than 10 apartment buildings, private houses and a high school were damaged, he said, adding that air defenses shot down 17 drones over Voronezh. The city is home to just over 1 million people and lies some 250 kilometers (155 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

The attack came the day after Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles overnight into Friday, killing at least four people in the capital Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

For only the second time in the nearly four-year war, Russia used a powerful new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv and NATO.

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile followed reports of major progress in talks between Ukraine and its allies on how to defend the country from further aggression by Moscow if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday in his nightly address that Ukrainian negotiators “continue to communicate with the American side.”

Chief negotiator Rustem Umerov was in contact with U.S. partners Saturday, he said.

Separately, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia targeted Ukraine with 154 drones overnight into Sunday and 125 were shot down.

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This photo provided by the Ukrainian Security Service on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, shows a fragment believed to be a part of a Russian Oreshnik intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missile that hit the Lviv region. (Ukrainian Security Service via AP)

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)