With Sai Sudharsan’s impressive knock and Prasidh Krishna’s outstanding bowling performance, Gujarat Titans defeated Mumbai Indians by 36 runs and registered their maiden victory of the season.
In the GT vs MI clash at Ahmedabad, Mumbai Indians have won the toss and have opted to field first. Speaking of the game, Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan opened the batting attack for the Gujarat Titans while Trent Boult opened the bowling attack.
The duo made an impressive start and scored consistently throughout the powerplay and pushed GT’s score to 66 runs without losing a wicket at the end of the first powerplay. Hardik Pandya in the ninth over, dismissed Shubman Gill for 38 runs and broke the well-settled partnership.
Buttler continued the momentum and pushed Gujarat’s score to 121 runs for a wicket loss at the end of 13 overs. Mujeeb Ur Rahman in the 14th over, dismissed Buttler and sent the dangerous batter to the pavilion after scoring 39 runs.
Sai Sudharsan, on the other hand, continued the momentum and pushed the team’s score to 140 runs for two wicket losses at the end of 15 overs. Boult in the final delivery of the 18th over dismissed Sai for 63 runs and put a speedbreaker to the runflow.
Without much contribution from the lower-order batters, the Gujarat Titans scored 196 runs for 8 wickets at the end of 20 overs.
While chasing, Mumbai Indians made a terrible start as their opening batters failed to lay a strong foundation. MI’s star batter Rohit Sharma lost his wicket in the first over after hitting back-to-back fours.
Siraj clean bowled Rohit Sharma in the fourth delivery of the first over and drew the first blood for the Mumbai Indians. While Ryan Rickelton and Tilak Varma started to build a partnership, Siraj in the fifth over struck again and dismissed Rickelton for 6 runs.
After losing a couple of wickets inside the powerplay, Mumbai managed to score only 48 runs. Tilak and SKY started to build a partnership and pushed Mumbai’s to score 86 runs at the end of 10 overs.
But Prasidh in the 12th over dismissed Varma for 39 runs and turned things upside down for Mumbai Indians. Soon in the next over, Sai Kishore dismissed Robin Minz for three runs and loaded pressure over the Mumbai batting lineup.
Prasidh went on to dismiss Suryakumar Yadav in the 16th over for 48 runs and made a massive turn in the game. In the very next over, Rabada dismissed Hardik Pandya for 11 runs and scattered Mumbai’s dream of chasing the total.
At the end of 20 overs, Mumbai Indians scored 160 runs for 6 wickets loss and lost the game by 36 runs.
