Gujarat Titans finally opened their account in IPL 2025. In the match played in Ahmedabad, Gujarat Titans easily defeated Mumbai Indians by 36 runs. In this way, Gujarat got its first win in 2 matches of the season. At the same time, the return of captain Hardik Pandya could not give Mumbai a win and the team had to face its second consecutive defeat. Based on Sai Sudarshan's excellent innings and then Mohammad Siraj's blows in the powerplay, Shubman Gill's team defeated the 5-time champion team.

This was the fourth match between the two teams at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Mumbai had lost in all three matches before this. In such a situation, Hardik Pandya's team had the challenge of changing history. But this time too the story could not change and Gujarat made a strong comeback after losing the first match at home. Shubman Gill's team truly gave an all-round performance in this match.

Gujarat's top order's attacking style

Gujarat batted first after losing the toss. Captain Shubman Gill (38) and Sai Sudarshan (63) together scored 66 runs in the powerplay itself. Mumbai got the first wicket in the 10th over when Hardik Pandya dismissed Gill on a score of 78 runs. After this, Sudarshan and Jos Buttler also quickly made a partnership of 51 runs. After Buttler (39) was out, Sudarshan made small partnerships with Shahrukh Khan and Sherfane Rutherford. Although Mumbai made a comeback by taking 3 consecutive wickets in the 18th and 19th overs, Gujarat still put up a strong score of 196 runs. Captain Hardik proved to be the most successful and effective bowler for Mumbai.

Siraj's havoc in the powerplay

After an excellent powerplay in batting, Gujarat also took the lead in the first 6 overs in bowling. After conceding 2 consecutive fours in the first over, star fast bowler Mohammad Siraj made a strong comeback and bowled Rohit Sharma (8). Then in the fifth over too, Siraj wreaked havoc and bowled Ryan Rickelton. The Mumbai team could score only 48 runs in the powerplay. From here, there was a 62-run partnership between Tilak and Suryakumar Yadav, but Tilak (39) started slowing down here. Eventually, under the pressure of increasing the run rate, he became the victim of Prasidh Krishna.

Prasidh Krishna's spell overshadowed Suryakumar.

Suryakumar Yadav (48), who has been struggling with poor form for the last several months, showed his old form in this match and hit some excellent shots but he did not get support from the other side. Prasidh (2/18), who proved to be very expensive in the last match, this time pushed Mumbai on the backfoot by bowling very economical in the middle overs and then sealed Mumbai's defeat by dismissing Suryakumar in the 16th over. Captain Hardik failed miserably with the bat and could score only 11 runs in 17 balls. In the end, Naman Dheer and Mitchell Santner added 36 runs to reduce the margin of defeat. Mumbai scored 160 runs in 20 overs by losing 6 wickets. Siraj and Prasidh took 2-2 wickets for Gujarat.

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