Gujarat Titans and mumbai indians, who were ranked third and fourth in the points table of the 2025 IPL, faced each other in the eliminator match. The winner of this match would advance to the second qualifying round match; the losing team would be eliminated from the series. In this situation, mumbai indians, who batted first, scored 228 runs. Then gujarat Titans chased. The team's opener Sai sudarshan stood aside and played aggressively. washington sundar, who came in the fourth row, scored runs at a strike rate of 200. He played aggressively and hit five boundaries and three sixes.
At that time, gujarat Titans had scored 148 runs for the loss of two wickets in 13 overs. While the team was scoring runs aggressively, mumbai indians were in a difficult position to break the partnership of washington sundar and Sai Sudarshan. At that time, the team's captain hardik pandya called bumrah to bowl the 14th over. At that time, bumrah had only two overs left. bumrah always bowls his last two overs when he has the last 4 overs. But this time, with mumbai indians unable to recover if gujarat Titans scored for two more overs, bumrah was called upon to bowl.As expected, bumrah conceded just four runs in that over and also took the wicket of Washington Sundar. washington sundar could not even touch the yorker he bowled. Sundar, who had been scoring two runs per ball until then, lost his stumps. The gujarat Titans, who had lost only three wickets at that time, gradually came under pressure. ashwini Kumar also bowled well in the 15th over. gujarat Titans scored nine runs in that over. There was a situation where they needed to score 12 more runs per over.
Then in the 16th over, Sai sudarshan was dismissed by richard Gleeson. And the hopes of the gujarat Titans were also ended. After his dismissal, the other batsmen could not play aggressively; That attempt did not bear fruit. There was a situation where 24 runs were needed in the last over. At that time, rahul Dewatiya and shahrukh khan were on the field. They could only score three runs in the last over. After this, the mumbai indians team won by 20 runs.
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