GT vs MI, IPL 2023 Highlights: Gujarat Titans thrash Mumbai Indians by 55 runs

It wasn't really a contest today, particularly when MI batted. Gujarat Titans were just clinical, right from the time when their batters started dominating towards the last five overs of their innings and then throughout the MI innings.

Mohit bangs it in short and Tendulkar pulls it over deep square leg. Arjun moves to 11 off 6.

Well one silver lining for MI fans is that they are seeing a Tendulkar bat. Arjun Tendulkar is on two off as many, Jason Behrendorff on one off as many. In case you are wondering, MI need 69 to win off the last two overs. Slightly difficult task one might think.

Total mix up there as Chawla runs and Wadhera doesn't move from where he is standing. Mohit just knocks off the bail politely and places it back on.

Piyush Chawla also hit a six in that over and so for once, an expensive over does not end in a wicket for MI. They need 79 to win off 24.

Mohit Sharma bowling 16th and the first ball is flicked away by Wadhera. He has got to 32 in 14 and is doing exactly what MI's top order batters should have done.

Well how about that, the rare good over for MI ends in a wicket. Noor Ahmad takes his third wicket off his last ball of the day. On a length outside off, SKY hits it straight back to the bowler and Noor does well to dive to his right and take the catch.

Suryakumar Yadav c & b Noor Ahmad 23 (12), MI 90/6 in 13 overs

Tossed up full outside off by Rashid for the first ball of the 12th, SKY reverse sweeps that somehow between the wicketkeeper and first slip for four.

David goes for a huge blind swing across the line off the second ball that he faces and is caught by Abhinav Manohar. Mumbai Indians are falling like a pack of cards here.

David c Manohar b Noor Ahmad 0 (2), MI 59/5 in 10.4 overs

Noor Ahmad cleans up Cameron Green and that should be the match already. If MI chase it down from here it will go down as one of the greatest chases in the history of cricket, regardless of the format.

Mumbai Indians now need 150 runs to win off the next 60 balls, exactly 15 runs an over. They need a real miraculous partnership between these two now. 

MI batters are struggling to do anything with the bat. Tilak Varma has been brought in as  an impact sub and he ends up falling off the last ball of that over. Big appeal from GT and Saha tells Hardik to take the review after the umpire shakes his head. Hardik signals for it quite extravagantly, GT are absolutely sure of ths and they are right to be excited. MI arem tottering here. 

Tilak lbw b Rashid Khan 2 (3), MI 45/3 in 8 overs

The pressure was building and this wicket was coming. He was on 13 off 21 and had faced a ton of dot balls. Goes for a big shot and ends up skying it, Josh Little makes no mistake with the catch.

Kishan c Little b Rashid Khan 13 (21), GT 43/2 (7.3 Ov)

Cameron Green, who is taking a swing at every ball he sees, is on 10 off eight. Ishan Kishan is on nine off 14.

This is Test match bowling from Shami. He beats Ishan Kishan four times in a row off the first four balls before the batter finally manages to get something on the ball and takes a single. MI need to chase a 200-plus target and tey have scored six runs in the first three overs. Three overs of powerplay wasted away, or rather three overs of powerplay in which they have been pinned down by Shami and Pandya.

Rohit moves to the leg side, the ball straightens and it takes a leading edge. It balloons up in the air and falls nicely into the hands of Hardik Pandya. This is a terrible start for MI, no runs scored and a wicket lost.

Rohit Sharma c & b Pandya 2 (8), MI 4/1 in 2 overs

No big shots against Mohammed Shami, very watchful from Rohit and Ishan and just a single off the third ball.

Josh Little has been brought in as an Impact Sub for... Shubman Gill! That is a surprise, considering Gill is a very good fielder and their first choice in the slips. Rohit Sharma is facing up against Mohammed Shami with Ishan Kishan at the other end.

“I went in when a few wickets fell, we had the timeout. Ashu pa came in and told me to carry the game for three overs, if it's in your zone hit it, if not knock it around for singles, we can make up the runs in the end because we have the firepower to do that. That's what me and Miller spoke about and it paid off. There was an effort to actually to get more runs in the middle overs. In our meeting, Hardik made it very clear that if we go after their main bowlers, which was Piyush Chawla, then we can get more runs on the board and then the rest of the bowlers will be under pressure. That's what we tried to do and it worked. I think tonight's gonna go our way, hopefully our bowlers do the job. First six overs is very important because the new ball is going to do something. I'm sure our bowlers will do it.”

A total of 77 runs smashed in the last five overs. David Miller, Abhinav Manohar and Rahul Tewatia have taken this score to well above where GT initially looked capable of finishing and they will be very happy indeed with this effort.

No 50 for Miller. He skies an attempted big shot, the ball has gone a long way up in the air and Suryakumar Yadav does well to hold on to that. Miller falls for 46 off 22.

Fine leg is in and so Tewatia shuffles across and sends the ball soaring over the fine leg boundary for six. This is sensational hitting.