Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans will face each other on Saturday in IPL 2025. This is the second match of both teams in IPL 2025. Both teams have lost their first match. Both need a win to open their account in the IPL points table, but only one will get it. After all, which team can have the upper hand in this match? The name of Mumbai Indians comes in answer to this. The figures are already excellent. The return of captain Hardik Pandya has strengthened Mumbai further. Let us know why Mumbai Indians can have an upper hand over Gujarat Titans.

Mumbai's strength will increase with Pandya's return.
The Mumbai Indians vs Gujarat Titans match will be played at the Narendra Singh Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. This is Hardik Pandya's first match in the tournament. This is not just a matter of the captain's return. Pandya's return will make the Mumbai Indians' balance even better. Last time slogans were raised against Hardik Pandya on this ground. This time the situation is different. His aggressive batting and pace bowling strengthen Mumbai. His strategy and experience can prove to be a game-changer for Mumbai against Gujarat Titans.

The batting lineup no less than a national team

Mumbai Indians' batting looks no less than a national team. MI's batting has names like Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma and Hardik Pandya. The power game of Ryan Rickelton and Will Jacks makes Mumbai more dangerous. Rohit may not have been able to score big in the first match, but his experience cannot be ignored. Mumbai's batsmen can score big on the batting pitch of Ahmedabad, which will put pressure on Gujarat's bowlers.

The excellent pace attack of Bolt-Chahar-Pandya

Mumbai has world-class bowlers like Trent Bolt and Deepak Chahar. Hardik's return will give the team another pace option. Spinner Mitchell Santner's web is too much for even big batsmen. Mumbai seems to have the upper hand given Gujarat's weak bowling in the first match.

Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (captain), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Ryan Rickelton (wicketkeeper), Tilak Verma, Naman Dheer, Will Jacks, Mitchell Santner, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Satyanarayan Raju, Karn Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Sreejith Krishnan (wicketkeeper), Bevon Jacobs, Robin Minj, Vignesh Puthur, Corbin Bosch, Ashwini Kumar, Reece Topley, VS Penmetsa, Arjun Tendulkar, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Jaspreet Bumrah.

Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (captain), Jos Buttler, Sai Sudarshan, Sherfane Rutherford, Glenn Phillips, Shahrukh Khan, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, R. Sai Kishore, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Mahipal Lomror, Karim Janat, Kulwant Khejroliya, Anuj Rawat, Gerald Coetzee, Manav Suthar, Kumar Kushagra, Arshad Khan, Gurnoor Brar, Nishant Sindhu.

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