Live Updates: Mumbai win a last-ball thriller

Mumbai Indian innings:

20th over: Mumbai 158 for 7. Ben Hilfenhaus bowls the last over and cleans Malinga up. Smith hits the fourth ball for a six to make it 8 from 2 to win and then smashes the fifth for four and then smacks the last ball for another boundary to win it for Mumbai Indians.

19th over: Mumbai 158 for 7. This is suicidal by Mumbai Indians they are losing wickets like pack of cards. Peterson is run out. du Plessis hits the stumps directly. Meanwhile, Harbhajan Singh also falls trying to go for the maximum.

IPL 5: Rajasthan thump Punjab to stay alive

Rajasthan Royals produced an all-round show as they thumped Kings XI Punjab by 43 runs to end their four-match losing streak in the Indian Premier League here on Saturday. Chasing 178 for a win, KXIP were in the game only for a brief while when opener Shaun Marsh (34) was going great guns with some lusty hits but once he was out in the ninth over it was all over for the home side as they lost wickets at regular intervals.

IPL 5: Kolkata hold nerve to beat Ganguly's Pune

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Marchant de lange picked up three wickets to help Kolkata Knight Riders beat Pune Warriors India by seven runs in their Indian Premier League match at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Saturday. Chasing a competitive target of 151 runs to win, Pune managed only 143 for 8 to hand KKR their seventh win this year's IPL.

Pune made a disastrous start losing opener Michael Clarke in the second over, who fell to the de Lange for just one. de Lange struck in his very next over to send backs Robin Uthappa for 17, which put the KKR on top. And then Sunil Narine accounted for the in-form Steven Smith when he had the Australian controversially adjudged lbw.

IPL 5: It was like playing an away game, says Gambhir

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Kolkata: With a packed Eden Gardens cheering their favourite son Sourav Ganguly, Kolkata Knight Riders' skipper Gautam Gambhir on Saturday said that it was like playing an away match. "He is a legend of the game. The contribution he has made to the sport both internationally and domestically is immense and it is natural for him to command the respect he gets. It was like playing an away game for us," Gambhir said at the post-match press conference.

Spinners having a ball in IPL 5

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From Delhi's Shahbaz Nadeem to Rajasthan's Brad Hogg, Kolkata's Sunil Narine to Punjab's Piyush Chawla, spinners have influenced the outcome of topsy-turvy Twenty20 matches that have invariably gone into the last over without an assured victor.

IPL 5 has been a paradise for left-arm spinners, who have won five Man-of-the-Match awards. Pawan Negi of the Delhi Daredevils has been the latest to impress after taking a four-wicket haul against the Rajasthan Royals last Tuesday. Negi joins the list of left-armers, starting with Ravindra Jadeja of Chennai Super Kings, who picked up a fifer against the Deccan Chargers early in the season.