GT vs MI: As soon as this player was out, the entire Mumbai Indians team moved closer to defeat.
The fifth match of IPL 2024 was played between Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians. Mumbai Indians won the toss and decided to bowl first. Mumbai’s bowling had a very bad start. Despite Bumrah in the team, Mumbai’s new captain Hardik Pandya bowled the first over himself and Saha bowled him well. Even in his second over, Gujarat batsmen troubled him a lot.
After this, Bumrah took the first wicket by clean bowling Saha on 19 runs. Gill scored 31 runs for Gujarat while Sai missed his half-century by being caught out by Sudarshan Bumrah. Before getting out, he scored 45 runs in 39 balls with the help of 3 fours and a six. Umarzai played a short but effective innings of 17 runs. Miller also could not play a big innings and was out on Bumrah’s ball. But Rahul Tewatia scored 19 runs in the 18th over and took the team to 168 runs. Before getting out, he scored 22 runs in 15 balls with the help of 2 fours and a six.
IPL 2024: GT vs MI: Mumbai Indians’ steady innings faltered in the end
GT vs MI: Chasing the target of 169 runs given by Gujarat, Mumbai started on one wicket. Mumbai did not even open their account and Ishan Kishan was dismissed by Azmatullah Umarzai. Naman Dheer, who came after this, scored 19 runs in a single over but was out in the same over. Then Dewald Brevis and Rohit Sharma took over the Mumbai innings and took the team beyond 100 runs.
GT vs MI: Rohit and Dewald missed century
Before getting out, Rohit scored 43 runs in 29 balls with the help of 7 fours and one six. He missed his half-century after being bowled by Sai Kishore. Explosive batsman Dewald Brevis also missed his half-century. He scored 46 runs in 38 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 2 fours and was caught out by Mohit Sharma.
At this juncture also the match was in the hands of Mumbai, but then Tim David and Tilak Verma lost their wickets. Tim David played an inning of 11 runs in 10 balls. At the same time, Tilak Verma had played 19 balls and was hitting shots in between.
GT vs MI: Tilak Verma’s wicket was the turning point of the match
GT vs MI: In the 19th over, Tilak Verma hit a six on Spencer’s first ball and went to play a big shot again on the next ball. But he lost his wicket on that ball. Everyone knows that Tilak Verma is a good finisher and he has led Mumbai to victory on many such occasions. But as soon as he was out, the entire Mumbai Indians team moved closer to defeat. This was the turning point of the match, if Tilak Verma had not been out, he could have won the match comfortably.
Gujarat team registered a spectacular victory over Mumbai Indians by 8 runs in the last over. When Mumbai needed 19 runs in 6 balls, Umesh Yadav was given the responsibility of bowling. Pandya hit a six on the first ball and a four on the second ball. But as soon as Pandya and Chawla were out on the next two balls, Gujarat registered a spectacular victory.
