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Updated : Apr 26, 2023, 01:31 AM IST | Edited by : Farrukh Khan
Gujarat Titans defeated Mumbai Indians by a huge margin of 55 runs on Tuesday (April 25) at the Narendra Modi Stadium. Batting first Hardik Pandya's GT put up a total of 207 runs in 20 overs as Abhinav Manohar, David Miller and Rahul Tewatia scored 57 runs in last 18 balls. After losing Wriddhiman Saha early, Shubhman Gill stayed on the crease and scored a brilliant half century (third of the season). Hardik Pandya and Vijay Shankar went a little quickely and at one moment it looked like 180-185 would be the total but Abhinav Manohar (42 off 21), David Miller (46 off 22) and Tewatia's 20 off 5 balls took Gujarat to a hug total.
Chasing a huge total Mumbai lost skipper Rohit Sharma in the second over as Mohammad Shami and Hardik Pandya bowled brilliantly and didn't let MI batters to open arem in the starting overs. Cameron Green tried hitting some runs but Noor Ahmad dismissed him ruining his plans for the night. Nehal Wadhera was the highest scorer from Mumbai Indians with his 40 off 21 but wasn't enough to take his team over the line. Chasing such a huge total Mumbai had little option other than going for big hit but they failed big time as thebatting order collapsed poorly.
MI: 112-6 (15)
Nehal Wadhera 26 (13)
Piyush Chawla 8 (5)
Last wicket: Suryakumar Yadav c and b Noor Ahmad 23(12)
MI: 58-3 (10)
Cameron Green 33 (25)
Suryakumar Yadav 3 (3)
Last wicket: Ishan Kishan c Joshua Little b Rashid Khan 13(21), Tilak Varma lbw b Rashid Khan 2(3)
MI: 53-3 (9)
Suryakumar Yadav 1 (1)
Cameron Green 30 (21)
Last wicket: Ishan Kishan c Joshua Little b Rashid Khan 13(21), Tilak Varma lbw b Rashid Khan 2(3)
MI: 45-3 (8)
Tilak Varma2(3)
Cameron Green 23 (16)
Last wicket: Ishan Kishan c Joshua Little b Rashid Khan 13(21), Tilak Varma lbw b Rashid Khan 2(3)
GT: 150-4 (17)
Abhinav Manohar 22 (14)
David Miller 19 (11)
last wicket: Shankar c Tim David b Chawla 19(16)
GT: 103-2 (13)
David Miller 7 (4)
Abhinav Manohar 1 (3)
last wicket: Shankar c Tim David b Chawla 19(16)
GT: 55-2 (7)
Shubman Gill 33 (19)
Vijay Shankar 2 (2)
last wicket: Hardik Pandya c Suryakumar Yadav b Chawla 13(14)
Piyush Chawla said, "There are a lot of teams who are already on eight points but most of the teams have played seven games and we have played six. So, one more game here and if we win we will be in the same hunt. We are not very far behind. But yes, we would like to have a couple of more wins in the next couple of games."
"Momentum is big in this competition. Coming back from a really close win in the last game, gives us a boosting for the games to come. If we look at the next 10 days, we got a few games back-to-back and it is a good time to step up" told David Miller.