Foreign player lapse Gujarat expensive, MI won the match

IPL 2025: Gujarat Titans lost by 20 runs in the Indian Premier League 2025 eliminator match. With this defeat, the team was ruled out of the final race. The eliminator had a Gujarat’s big villain Kusal Mendis and fast bowler Garald Koetzi. The Mumbai batsmen scored the most runs in the over of Garald Koetzi. The situation became such that captain Shubman Gill bowled with him only 3 overs, in which he gave 51 runs and could not take a single wicket.

Kusal Mendis became the biggest villain of the match

While Sri Lanka’s Kusal Mendis made his IPL debut for Gujarat, which was not very special. He was included in the Gujarat team in place of Jose Butler. The Sri Lankan wicketkeeper-batsman’s performance against Mumbai Indians was very poor. Mendis, who was making his debut for Gujarat in the eliminator match, left two important catches while wicketkeeping, which made the team in trouble.

The first catch was taken by Rohit Sharma and the second was taken by Suryakumar Yadav. Rohit took full advantage of the opportunity and scored 81 runs, causing Mumbai to reach a big score. On the other hand, Kusal Mendis could not do anything special with the bat, he was dismissed at a very important time. That is, when he went to the backfoot to play short in Mitchell Santner’s over, his leg touched with stumps. Kushal was dismissed for 20 runs off 10 balls.

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For Mumbai, Rohit Sharma played a brilliant innings of 81 runs off 50 balls, due to which the five -time IPL champion team Mumbai managed to score 228/5. Suryakumar Yadav scored 33 and Johnny Bairstow scored 47 runs. Famous Krishna and R.K. Sai Kishore took two wickets each. Gujarat Titans also fought well. Sai Sudarshan scored 80 runs in 49 balls (10 fours, 1 six) and Washington Sundar scored 48 runs in 24 balls. At one time the Gujarat Titans was struggling in the match, but as they gradually lost wickets and the pressure to maintain the run rate increased, the Gujarat team finally surrendered to the Mumbai Indians’ big score. Now Hardik Pandya-led Mumbai team will play a qualifier-2 against Punjab Kings in Ahmedabad on 1 June.