After losing their first match in IPL 2025, Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians face to face. In this match played in Ahmedabad, there was a strong competition between two former champion teams. In this match, Mumbai Indians bowled first and after a poor start, the team made a strong comeback in the last over. Even once, the team got 3 wickets on three consecutive balls, but still there was no hat -trick in anyone's account. Why did this happen? Let us tell you.
In this 9th match of IPL on Saturday 29 March, the host Gujarat Titans batting first. The Gujarat Titans started vigorously while playing at his home ground Narendra Modi Stadium. Captain Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan shared a stormy partnership for him. After Gill's dismissal, Joss Butler also carried forward the innings in the same manner. Gujarat had scored 179 runs by the 18th over, while only 4 wickets had fallen and the team looked towards 200 runs. But then suddenly there was a fall of wickets.
Mumbai Indians showed 3 batsmen of Gujarat on 3 consecutive balls to the pavilion. But still there was no hat -trick in a bowler's account. There was two reasons for this. The first reason was that these 3 wickets fell in two different overs. Second, one of these was also run out. In the 18th over, Sai Sudarshan was caught on the last ball of Trent Bolt. Then the new batsman Rahul Tewatia was run out on the first ball of the 19th over. Sherfen Rutherford also caught on the second ball of this over. Both these wickets came in the over of Deepak Chahar. In this way, Gujarat lost 3 wickets in 3 consecutive balls on the score of just 179 runs.
As far as Gujarat's innings is concerned, despite these 3 wickets, the team scored 196 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. In the second consecutive match for this team, young opener Sai Sudarshan played the biggest innings. The left -handed batsman, who scored 74 runs in the first match, scored 63 runs in 41 balls this time. At the same time, Captain Gill contributed 38 runs in 27 balls and Jose Butler contributed 39 runs in 24 balls. Captain Hardik Pandya was the most successful bowler for Mumbai, who took 2 wickets for just 29 runs in 4 overs.
