IPL: Mumbai Indians defeated Gujarat Titans by 20 runs in the Eliminator of IPL 2025. With this, Gujarat’s team is out of IPL 2025 and its dream of winning the title is shattered. Now Mumbai Indians will face Punjab Kings in Qualifier-2. Mumbai batted first and scored 228 runs, in response to which Gujarat (Gujarat’s) ‘s team could score only 208 runs.
Sai Sudarshan played a strong innings
Gujarat Titans had a very bad start when Shubman Gill returned to the pavilion after getting out in the very first over. After this, Kusal Mendis also could not stay at the crease for long and was out after scoring 20 runs. He got hit wicket while playing a shot off Mitchell Santner’s ball. After two wickets fell, Sai Sudarshan and Washington Sundar shared an 84-run partnership for the third wicket. Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Sundar with a yorker ball and broke the partnership. But Sai Sudarshan stood firm at one end of the crease and scored 80 runs in 49 balls, which included 10 fours and a six. Gujarat’s innings fell apart as soon as he was out. Sherfane Rutherford scored 24 runs in 15 balls, hitting four fours.
Gujarat Titans needed 36 runs to win in the last two overs, but the team could score only 15 runs. Rahul Tewatia scored 16 runs and Shahrukh Khan scored 13 runs. Jasprit Bumrah bowled brilliantly for Mumbai. He took one wicket for 27 runs in four overs. At the same time, Trent Boult took two wickets.
Rohit Sharma hit a half-century
For Mumbai Indians, the batsmen batted aggressively from the beginning of the innings. Rohit Sharma (81 runs) and Jonny Bairstow (47 runs) displayed strong batting. These players shared 84 runs for the first wicket and gave Mumbai a strong start. Suryakumar Yadav played an innings of 33 runs. In the end, Hardik Pandya played a quick innings of 22 runs in 9 balls, which included three sixes. It was because of these players that Mumbai’s team was able to score 228 runs. Gujarat Titans’ bowlers could not perform well and proved to be a complete flop. Prasidh Krishna and Sai Kishore took two wickets each for the team, but both these bowlers also conceded a lot of runs.