IPL scores (Wankhede Stadium)
Rising Pune beat Mumbai by 3 runs
Mumbai: 157-8 (Sharma 58, Patel 33; Stokes 2-21, Unadkat 2-40)
Rising Pune: 160-6 (Tripathi 45, Rahane 38; Bumrah 2-29, Sharma 2-39)
Ben Stokes got the better of his England team-mate Jos Buttler again as Rising Pune Supergiant beat Mumbai Indians by three runs in a thrilling finish at the Wankhede Stadium.
It is only Mumbai's second defeat of IPL 10, both of them coming to Pune, and while Stokes was on the winning side in that first encounter, Buttler won the personal duel by blasting him for two sixes.
In their second meeting, Stokes (2-21) picked up Buttler (17 off 13 balls) with his second ball of a wicket-maiden opening over, later bowled Karn Sharma, crucially conceded just seven runs from a pressured penultimate over and then took a terrific diving catch to dismiss Hardik Pandya off the first ball of the last.
Rohit Sharma (58 off 39) struck a sublime half century for Mumbai but with 11 runs needed from the final four balls, he perished to a top-edged pull when looking to clear the boundary.
Earlier, Harbhajan Singh (1-20) took his 200th T20 wicket as Mumbai restricted Pune to 160-6 batting first.
It was a rather disappointing Supergiant score, considering opening pair Ajinkya Rahane (38 off 32) and Rahul Tripathi (45 off 31) had played superbly in a 76-run opening stand.
But the visiting side lost their way following Rahane's wicket - caught and bowled by Karn Sharma (2-29) - in the 10th over, with multiple batsmen guilty of not capitalising on starts.
Among them was skipper Steve Smith (17 off 12), who was Harbhajan's milestone wicket, and Stokes (17 off 12), who lost a personal Ashes battle when bowled by Mitchell Johnson (1-34).
MS Dhoni (7) couldn't repeat his big-hitting heroics from their last win over Sunrisers Hyderabad - dragging Jasprit Bumrah (2-29) onto his stumps - but Manoj Tiwary (22 off 13) did at least fire four late fours to lift the Supergiant score.
Mumbai got off to a perfect start in pursuit of their target, with Buttler firing back-to-back boundaries in the second over, while Parthiv Patel (33 off 27) hit three in the third.
Stokes came into the attack in the fifth and celebrated wildly when swiftly dismissing Buttler, caught at long-on.
Dan Christian picked up the wicket of in-form Nitish Rana (3) in his solitary over, while Washington Sundar (1-26) had Patel bowled in the ninth to have Pune on top at the midway point of the run-chase.
Rohit Sharma finally found some form with the bat though and seemed to be guiding his side to a seventh-straight IPL win as he brought up his fifty in the 18th over - Mumbai needing 24 runs to win from the final two.
But Stokes' economical effort in the penultimate over, plus his fine work in the field to dismiss Pandya in the last, helped ensure Pune held on for a slim win.
