The right-handed batter, who made some gestures towards the PBKS dugout after completing his fifty, said the celebrations were meant for his team management.

“That celebration was for our Sanjay (Bangar) sir, I have been working a lot with him and I keep asking him questions,” Ashutosh said.

“He gave me a chance, and also the entire Punjab team which showed belief in me. Our head coach Trevor Bayliss, Ashish (Tuli) paaji, Shikhar (Dhawan) paaji, everyone believed in me, so it was for all of them,” he added.

Punjab slumped to their fifth defeat in seven matches as well as to the ninth spot in the points table, but Ashutosh said his side has been playing well.

“Winning and losing are part of the game. How you are playing is something that matters and we are playing well as a team. If we will play well, we will win,” he said.

Mumbai Indians’ pacer Gerald Coetzee conceded his side was tense after Ashutosh’s stunning onslaught.

“He really brought it to us. We just wanted to be really clear tactically what we wanted to do. We executed really well to him in the back end to shut it down and win the game,” the South African bowler said.

“But it was tense, as I think everyone saw. But it was just all tactical discussions,” he added.

Coetzee conceded Mumbai Indians could’ve been better with their slower balls, something that PBKS used perfectly in the first half.

“We just really learned from their innings. We adapted our plans and I think it worked,” Coetzee added.