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Mumbai Indians showed the way out of Gujarat Titans, now in qualifier-2, Punjab will now face

Samira Vishwas | May 31, 2025 3:24 AM CST

Mi vs gt eliminator highlights: Mumbai Indians have defeated Gujarat Titans by 20 runs in the eliminator match to make it to another qualifier. Mumbai, batting first, scored a strong score of 228 runs. At the same time, Gujarat’s team could only manage 208 runs after struggling till the last over. The brilliant innings of Rohit Sharma and Johnny Bairstow played a key role in this victory.

Mumbai Indians have confirmed their place in qualifier-2 with victory in eliminator. Now on June 1, he will face Punjab Kings. Gujarat Titans had a challenging target of 228 runs in the eliminator match played at Narendra Modi Stadium. However, Gujarat started very poorly. Captain Shubman Gill was dismissed early after scoring just 1 run. After this, Sai Sudarshan and Kusal Mendis shared a 64 -run partnership, but Mendis returned to the pavilion after scoring 20 runs.

Sudarshan and Sundar’s tremendous partnership

Sai Sudarshan, along with Washington Sundar, shared 84 runs in a rampage, but it could not even win the Gujarat Titans. Sundar played a stormy innings of 48 runs in just 24 balls. After his dismissal, the Gujarat team continued to lose wickets. Sherfa Rutherford scored 24 runs and Shah Rukh Khan scored 13 runs, while Rahul Tewatia was able to score only 16 runs despite being set.

Sai Sudarshan kept Gujarat’s hopes of victory by scoring 80 off 49 balls in the eliminator match. He hit 10 fours and a six in his innings. This time his innings could not stand in front of Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma. Rohit scored 81 runs off 50 balls, including 9 fours and 4 sixes, due to which Mumbai team moved towards victory.

Mumbai’s other batsmen also took command

Apart from Rohit Sharma, Johnny Bairstow played 47, Suryakumar Yadav 33, Tilak Verma 25 and captain Hardik Pandya played a brilliant innings of 22 not out. Famous Krishna and Sai Kishore for Gujarat took 2-2 wickets while bowling well, but it could not stop the team’s defeat.

Trent Bolt took 2 wickets playing an important role. Jasprit Bumrah, Richard Glison, Mitchell Santner and Ashwini Kumar also took one wicket each. In batting, Sai Sudarshan played a half -century innings of 80 runs.