MI beat PBKS by 6 wickets in Dharamshala, chasing 201 in 19.5 overs. PBKS: 200/8 → 5th straight loss after starting 7-0. Now 13 points from 12 games, playoff hopes "severely dented". MI: Already eliminated, but played spoilers with 8 points from 12 games. Punjab Kings' (PBKS) playoff chances took a serious beating after they lost their fifth game in a row, this time going down to Mumbai Indians (MI) by six wickets in Dharamsala. They remain fourth on the table with 13 points from 12 games, while the two teams just below them, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, have 12 points each with a game in hand. PBKS flew to 107/1 in 12 overs via Prabhsimran Singh 57 off 32 and Priyansh Arya 27. Shardul’s burst: Took 4/39, removing Prabhsimran and Shreyas Iyer 4 in 3 balls to trigger collapse. PBKS lost 6 wickets for 33 runs in 5 overs, crashing from 107/1 to 140/7. Late recovery: Azmatullah Omarzai 38 off 17 + Xavier Bartlett 18_ off 7 + Vishnu Vinod 15 off 8 lifted PBKS to 200/8. Ryan Rickelton set up the chase for MI with his 23-ball 48. But it was Tilak Varma who played the pivotal role with his unbeaten 75 off 33. With 50 needed from three overs, he, with the help of Will Jacks, took MI over the line on the penultimate ball of the match. A six-less powerplay Priyansh Arya opened his account with a second-ball four off Deepak Chahar and Prabhsimran picked up two fours off Bumrah in the following over. In all, the two combined to hit ten fours in the powerplay but there were plenty of dot balls and not a single six. To make things worse for PBKS, Chahar bowled Arya with a knuckleball in the final over of the powerplay, after which PBKS were 55 for 1. Chase start: Ryan Rickelton 48 off 23 blazed to 59/0 in powerplay despite Rohit Sharma’s scratchy 25. Middle wobble: PBKS took 3/57 between overs 7-13, reducing MI to 116/4. Tilak takeover: Unbeaten 75_ off 33 balls, 6 fours, 6 sixes, SR 227.2761-run stand off 42 balls with Sherfane Rutherford 20Finished with Will Jacks 25_ off 10: 56-run unbroken 5th wicket standLast over: MI needed 15, Jacks hit 6 first ball, Tilak finished with 6 over cover with 1 ball left. Shardul turned the tide in the 12th over. Bowling cross-seam into the pitch, he had Prabhsimran miscue an aerial hit to deep third. Two balls later, he got another cross-seam delivery to straighten and ping Shreyas Iyer's off stump. From the other end, Raj Bawa bowled Cooper Connolly for 21 off 22 in the next over. A little later, Shardul removed Suryansh Shedge and Marco Jansen, leaving PBKS on 140 for 7 in 16.2 overs. Bottom line: Shardul’s 4-for wrecked PBKS middle overs, then Tilak’s “masterclass” 75* punished a faltering PBKS attack to extend their losing streak to 5 and all but kill their playoff dream. Jacks and Tilak hit Jansen for two sixes and two fours in the 18th over. Arshdeep left Bartlett with 14 to defend in the final over but he started with a full toss, which Jacks hit over long-off for a six. A single and a dot brought it down to eight required from three. Tilak showed no nerves and smashed the next two balls for sixes to seal the win.