After a lowly end to the league stage with a defeat to Punjab Kings, depriving them of a Qualifier 1 spot, Mumbai Indians introduced their A-game to the IPL 2025 Eliminator contest to stave off an in-form Gujarat Titans outfit in New Chandigarh on Friday night time.
Banking on the collective firepower of a vaunted top-order, MI racked up a mammoth 228 for 5 whole batting first after profitable the toss. The rating proved to be simply above-par as GT’s chase led by Sai Sudharsan and Washington Sundar, provided a scare to MI’s unbeaten file throughout 18 matches while defending 200-plus totals within the IPL.
At a floor the place the Punjab batters flounded yesterday within the Qualifier 1 match, MI rode on a belligerent begin laid out by openers Rohit Sharma and Jonny Bairstow who seized 79 runs inside the Powerplay.
MI set distinctive IPL six-hitting file
Mumbai thereby went onto arrange a novel top-order sixes file after Rohit and Bairstow launched 4 and three maximums respectively. The onslaught didn’t cease there as MI’s main run-scorer, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, and captain Hardik Pandya additionally proceeded to hit three sixes every batting between No. 3 to five.
Consequently, Mumbai turned the primary IPL workforce to have all the high 5 batters to smash at the very least three sixes in a workforce innings. With No. 6 Naman Dhir launching one six, MI’s whole of 17 sixes was their second-best ever in an IPL match, solely behind the 20 maximums they struck in opposition to the SunRisers Hyderabad in 2024.
On the sixes depend, MI have tallied a complete of 135 sixes this version, 5 behind their finest haul of 140 sixes within the IPL 2023 season. Total, Sunrisers maintain the league file, having smashed 178 sixes final season. Regardless of being eradicated within the league stage, Lucknow Tremendous Giants tops the sixes charts this season after slamming 152 sixes in 14 matches.