How Can Gujarat Titans Finish In Top Two After Defeat Against Lucknow Super Giants?

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Last Updated:May 23, 2025, 00:56 IST

GT volition warrant themselves a top-placed decorativeness successful IPL 2025 if they bushed CSK connected Sunday and PBKS and RCB suffer 1 of their adjacent 2 league matches.

How tin Gujarat Titans decorativeness successful top-two aft 33-run decision against LSG. (Picture Credit: Sportzpics)

Table-toppers Gujarat Titans faced Lucknow Super Giants successful the 64th league lucifer of IPL 2025 connected Thursday (May 22), but they suffered a shocking decision by 33 runs successful beforehand of location fans astatine Narendra Modi Stadium. Captain Shubman Gill’s determination to vessel archetypal backfired arsenic the visitors rode connected Mitchell Marsh’s maiden IPL period to station a full of 235 runs connected the committee for the nonaccomplishment of 2 wickets, which, contempt Shahrukh Khan’s 57-run sound from conscionable 29 balls, GT failed to pursuit down.

The decision astatine Narendra Modi Stadium was GT’s 4th nonaccomplishment of the ongoing season, but with 18 points from 13 matches, they stay astatine the No. 1 presumption successful the IPL 2025 points table.

Gujarat Titans would similar to support the No. 1 presumption successful the coming days arsenic good to unafraid a spot successful the archetypal qualifier, which is scheduled to instrumentality spot astatine Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium successful Mullanpur adjacent Thursday (May 29).

Titans volition decorativeness arsenic array toppers if they bushed Chennai Super Kings successful their past league lucifer connected May 25 and Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Punjab Kings suffer astatine slightest 1 of their remaining 2 league matches.

If that happens, past GT volition apical the array with 20 points, and RCB and PBKS can’t decorativeness with much than 19 points.

But if GT suffer against CSK, past they volition surely not decorativeness arsenic array toppers. However, they tin decorativeness 2nd, but for that, Shubman Gill’s men person to anticipation that RCB suffer their adjacent 2 league matches (against Sunrisers Hyderabad May 23 and against Lucknow Super Giants connected May 27) and PBKS triumph against Mumbai Indians connected May 26 successful Jaipur.

Gujarat Titans volition decorativeness 3rd if Punjab Kings and RCB triumph astatine slightest 1 of their remaining 2 league matches and they suffer against Chennai Super Kings.

If RCB triumph astatine slightest 1 of their upcoming 2 matches, PBKS bushed GT, MI bushed PBKS and CSK bushed GT, past Shubman Gill’s men volition extremity the league signifier run successful 4th presumption and look the third-placed squad successful the eliminator lucifer successful Mullanpur connected May 30.

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