Gujarat Titans defeated Mumbai Indians by 3 wickets on the basis of Duckworth Lewis rule. In this rain affected match, Mumbai scored 155 runs while batting first, in response when Gujarat came to bat, rain interrupted the match many times. The game was halted for a long time due to rain, due to which Gujarat had to score 15 runs to win in the last over.
In this match played at Wankhede Stadium, Gujarat Titans got a target of 156 runs. In response, Gujarat did not have a good start as Sai Sudarshan was out after scoring just 5 runs. It started raining in the first 4 overs of the match, but the umpires did not stop the match. Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler made a partnership of 72 runs, but Buttler was out after scoring 30 runs.
Gujarat had scored 40 runs in 7 overs, but was trailing by 6 runs from the DLS score. In the next 7 overs, Shubman Gill and especially Sherfane Rutherford batted in a stormy manner and added a total of 67 runs. The 14th over had just ended when it started raining, due to which the game was halted for about half an hour.
Rain added excitement to the match
When the game resumed after the rain stopped, Jasprit Bumrah clean bowled Shubman Gill in the very first over. When Gill was out, Gujarat had to score 43 runs in 31 balls to win. Just 4 balls later, Trent Boult dismissed Sherfane Rutherford on a score of 28. With 2 wickets falling in just 4 balls, the match turned in MI’s favour.
At one point, Gujarat had scored 113 runs at the loss of 2 wickets, but within the next 13 runs, it lost 4 wickets. Rashid Khan and Shahrukh Khan were out after scoring 2 and 6 runs respectively. Gujarat was losing wickets at regular intervals, while MI was gaining the upper hand. At the end of 18 overs, rain again became the villain.
Gujarat’s big win through DLS
Gujarat had scored 132 runs at the loss of 6 wickets till the 18th over, but the match was halted again due to rain. Due to rain, 1 over was cut from Gujarat’s innings, so they had to score 15 runs to win in the last over.
The last over also proved to be very exciting, in which 14 runs were scored in the first 4 balls and Gujarat had to score just one run to win in 2 balls. Then Gerald Coetzee got out on the fifth ball. Arshad Khan ran one run on the last ball and gave Gujarat a thrilling victory.
