A five-wicket haul from Hardik Pandya and a blistering fifty from Suryakumar Yadav proved insufficient as Mumbai Indians lost to Lucknow Super Giants in a high-scoring IPL 2025 match held at the Ekana Cricket Stadium on Saturday night. The defeat was MI’s third of the season and came right after a confident win over Kolkata Knight Riders earlier this week. Chasing 204, MI managed 191/5 as LSG secured a 12-run win. MI head coach Mahela Jayawardene wants the players to be more “ruthless” as he felt that they had the chase under control and it’s the finishing touch where they were found short. “I think it’s early season, so we need to be a bit more ruthless when we’re in those kinds of situations to try and finish a game off,” Jayawardene told reporters after the match. “I think halfway point, even at the 14th over mark, I think we were in it, 12 balls, 14 balls out, we were par score with them… we had the game in control most of the time even after losing those two early wickets, but it was just disappointing that we just couldn’t finish it.” Jayawardene called the result a “setback” and added they made mistakes while bowling as LSG shouldn’t have been allowed to cross the 200-run mark. “I have to be honest, it is a setback. We probably made quite a few mistakes especially with the ball as well, we should have probably restricted them maybe 15-20 runs less and at the same time batting-wise we had the momentum even after losing early wickets. I put it down to us not being smart enough in certain situations and not being able to execute what needed to be executed. So we just need to go back. We had three away games, one home game so we’d love to win away matches but now it’s up to us to really get our points on the board and then push through,” he said. Pandya became the first captain in IPL history to take a five-wicket haul as he accounted for Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant, Aiden Markram, David Miller and Akash Deep to finish with bowling figures of 5/36. Jayawardene said Pandya used his experience to focus on bowling slow and back of length deliveries after MI conceded 69/0 to LSG in the Powerplay overs. “With the experience that he has, he realised that this is what he probably needs to do because we did leak too many runs in the powerplay. We just needed to take a bit of pace off, which we should have done in the powerplay as well. I think that’s why these guys are experienced, they adapt to conditions pretty well, see what the opportunities present, and he definitely with the ball pulled the game back for us and gave us a pretty decent chance of chasing this total,” he said.