Gujarat Titans (GT) captain Shubman Gill blamed poor fielding for his team’s defeat in the Eliminator match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. He admitted that his team conceded too many runs in the match against Mumbai Indians (MI) at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur.
GT, chasing a huge target of 229 runs, tried their best to achieve the target. For Mumbai, Rohit Sharma played a brilliant innings of 81 runs in 50 balls, while Jonny Bairstow hit 47 runs in just 22 balls in his IPL 2025 debut. In response, Sai Sudarshan played a brilliant innings of 80 runs in 49 balls for GT and kept the hopes alive till the last overs. But due to a lack of support from the rest of the batsmen, the former champion had to face defeat.
Apart from Washington Sundar (48 off 24 balls), no other batsman could play an impressive innings. The team also missed Jos Buttler. Also, GT had to pay the price for dropping three easy catches in the first innings, due to which Mumbai scored 228/5 and GT fell behind by 20 runs.
Shubman Gill raised questions on GT’s fielding and bowling
Gill praised Sai Sudharsan and Washington Sundar, who batted brilliantly under pressure to keep the chase exciting. However, the Indian Test captain admitted that his team gave away at least 18 runs more on the Mullanpur pitch as three crucial catches were dropped.
Gill said,
“𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔, 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆-𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒈𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉. 𝑫𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒔, 𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕. 𝑴𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒂𝒊 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 – 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒘. 210 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒓 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉.”
Gill further said,
“𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒘𝒐-𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑺𝒂𝒊 – 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏.”
Gujarat Titans are now out of IPL 2025. On the other hand, Mumbai Indians will now play Qualifier 2 against Punjab Kings (PBKS) at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
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