GT Vs MI, IPL 2025 Match Highlights: Rohit, Bumrah Eliminate Gujarat Titans To Keep Mumbai's Title Hopes Alive

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Last Updated:May 31, 2025, 15:12 IST

Rohit Sharma hammered 81 runs from 50 balls, and Jasprit Bumrah finished with figures of 1 for 27 to seal MI's stunning triumph by 20 runs implicit GT successful the IPL 2025 Eliminator.

Jasprit Bumrah (L) stares into Washington Sundar's psyche aft his match-changing wicket successful the IPL 2025 Eliminator. (PC: Sportzpics)

Mumbai Indians needed a large sound from Rohit Sharma successful the archetypal knockout lucifer of IPL 2025, and the 38-year-old right-handed batter lived up to the billing by scoring 81 runs from conscionable 50 balls connected Friday (May 30). Rohit’s ace amusement with the bat helped MI successfully support the people of 229 runs and get the amended of Gujarat Titans by 20 runs to support live their hopes of a sixth IPL title.

The erstwhile MI skipper made a cautious commencement successful the eliminator lucifer astatine Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium successful Mullanpur, New Chandigarh, and aft getting 2 lifelines – archetypal connected 3 by Gerald Coetzee and 2nd connected 12 by Kusal Mendis – helium made the Shubman Gill-led broadside pay.

The six-time IPL victor hammered fours and sixes for amusive and astatine volition and, successful the process, besides completed 7000 runs and 300 sixes successful the world’s richest franchise cricket league. He is the 2nd batter aft Virat Kohli to transverse the 7000-run people and the 2nd batter aft Chris Gayle to articulation the 300-sixes club.

Rohit added 84 runs from the archetypal wicket successful 44 balls with England wicketkeeper-batter Jonny Bairstow. The erstwhile SRH and PBKS batter, who joined MI arsenic a impermanent replacement for Ryan Rickelton, amassed a full of 47 runs from 22 balls successful his archetypal lucifer for the Mumbai-based franchise.

After Bairstow’s wicket, Rohit joined hands with Suryakumar Yadav, and the duo added 59 runs successful 34 balls for the 2nd wicket.

Rohit completed his 47th IPL 50 successful 28 balls by hitting a 4 connected the archetypal shot of the 10th implicit bowled by Rashid Khan. Surya was unlucky to miss retired connected a deserving fifty. He was dismissed for 33 runs from 20 balls by R Sai Kishore. During his enactment astatine the crease, Surya, who has crossed the 25-run people successful each 15 matches played truthful acold successful this year’s IPL, hammered 1 4 and 3 sixes.

Rohit was the 3rd MI batter to get out. In an effort to deed a six, helium was caught by Rashid Khan disconnected Prasidh Krishna’s bowling. After Rohit’s dismissal, MI mislaid Tilak Varma and Naman Dhir successful speedy succession, but Hardik Pandya hammered Coetzee for 3 sixes successful the past implicit to instrumentality MI’s full to 228 for 5.

For Titans, Prasidh and Sai Kishore picked up 2 wickets each, but they conceded 53 and 42 runs, respectively, successful their quota of 4 overs.

In the 229-run chase, GT needed a large commencement from Shubman Gill and B Sai Sudharsan, but GT skipper Gill was sent backmost to the pavilion for 1 disconnected 2 balls by Trent Boult connected the 4th shot of the archetypal over.

However, his wicket had nary interaction connected Sudharsan, who added 64 runs successful conscionable 34 balls for the 2nd wicket with Kusal Mendis (20 from 10 balls) and 84 runs from 44 balls for the 3rd wicket with Washington Sundar (48 from 24 balls) to support the lucifer alive.

While Kusal got hit-wicket out, Bumrah bowled a yorker to breach Sundar’s defence and shatter his stumps.

Sai completed his half-century with a bound connected the past shot of the seventh over. He crossed the 50-run people successful 28 balls (8 fours and 1 six) but was cleanable bowled by Richard Gleeson for 80 runs from 49 balls connected the 4th shot of the 16th implicit of the tally chase.

GT needed 36 runs successful the past 2 overs to triumph the match, but Boult got Sherfane Rutherford caught retired for 24 (from 15 balls) by Tilak Varma connected the archetypal shot of the penultimate implicit of the tally chase.

Mumbai Indians volition present instrumentality connected Punjab Kings successful Qualifier 2 connected Sunday, June 1, successful Ahmedabad, and the victor of that fixture volition beryllium up against RCB successful the IPL 2025 last connected Tuesday, June 3, astatine Narendra Modi Stadium.

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Chandigarh, India, India

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