IPL 2025, GT vs LSG Highlights: Mitch Marsh century inspires strong 33-run LSG win, dents GT's chances of top 2 finish

GT vs LSG Live Score: O'Rourke introduced and he gets the wicket they wanted! A little too short to drive, and Sudharsan can only hit it a little uppishly. It's a good low catch by Markram at long off.

Crucial wicket with this large a target. 46-1.

GT vs LSG Live Score: 33-0 after 3, and Gill looking calm as you like but still finding the fence with ease. Three back to back boundaries, found with some simplicity and elegance from the skipper.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Sudharsan lucky there! Plays a lovely straight drive, but replays show that the ball actually struck the pad first. The LSG players must have thought it was just the bat on the pad — hawkeye shows the ball would have been smashing. Sudharsan with a bonus life.

GT vs LSG Live Score: These two will know they have to keep a solid rate of scoring going, but don't expect them to lose their shape while going for those runs. Classy from Sai Sudharsan, in as impact player.

GT vs LSG Live Score: This little cameo will make Pant fans feel much much better. First straight down the ground, and then a typical flick off his hips, in Rabada's last over.

More importantly, pushes the score to 235-2. And you think LSG might need every one of those runs against a batting unit as consistent and brilliant as GT's.

Back soon after the break.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Arshad does the trick, and with 10 deliveries left, this could be a wicket that saves them a good number of runs. Arshad bowls wide of off, and Marsh can only slice it straight up.

117(64) from the big Aussie. Take a bow.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Keep in mind, this has been the best bowler in the tournament, and he has just had the cover smashed off the ball against him. Marhs first pulls him miles over square leg, then rocks back onto his back foot and lofts him straight back over his head. That's a chastening over for the Purple Cap holder, 18 off it.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Take a bow Mitch Marsh, excellent innings from the powerful Aussie! First overseas player to score a century this IPL.

LSG really motoring now, Pooran onto 49*(22) as well. 194-1 with three overs to go.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Not everyday you will see a guy batting on 88* get strike turned down, but that's T20 cricket for you. Pooran likes the match up against Sai Kishore, so keeps the strike, and comes through as he pummels it over long on for six.

160-1 after 15.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Brutal hitting! And it's good hitting. Playing every ball on its merit, Marsh picks up three fours and two sixes off the over, and LSg suddenly onto 132-1 after 12. The kind of over that could give this pair dangerous momentum.

Marsh onto 84* off 46.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Big wicket! Kishore gets hit for six, but comes back well against Markram. He tries to make room and clear long-off, but not enough elevation even as he gets the power.

91-1 now, Markram out for 36.

GT vs LSG Live Score: These two starting to swing through the line a bit now. It's not crazy hitting, but they are picking up important boundaries against GT's better bowlers in Prasidh and Kishore.

Game very much in the balance at the moment.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Markram making merry off his Protean teammates, lofts a couple of shots over the leg-side for a pair of sixes.

Rabada comes back well, bounces him a couple of times. Hits him again, this time on his shoulder. Really enthralling start.

GT vs LSG Live Score: One painful start this has been. First Arshad, then Siraj gets hammered by Marsh hammering one back at him, then Rabada gets his fingers stung by a similar come-backer.

Next ball, he follows Markram, and it's right in the danger area as far as the batter is concerned. He kneels over in pain.

The ball after that is a chest-high full-toss that nearly cleans him up. As awkward as a non-contact sport can get out here.

GT vs LSG Live Score: On the money from Siraj, doesn't allow this pair to open their arms at all. Just three runs off it, valuable over.

GT vs LSG Live Score: 14 off that over, and Arshad slipped twice, in almost identical fashion. Sawdust applied and he looks okay, but is receiving treatment at the start of the next over nevertheless.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Arshad looking a little tentative since his slip, floats a couple wide of off. Markram first hammers it through the covers again, before Marsh comes on strike and just easily lofts it over the same area for six. Fast start here.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Eight off the first over, but trouble just off the first ball of the next. Arshad runs in, slips as he lands after his jump. Jarrs his arm against the pitch, and looks in discomfort, but he's back up again. Nearly a freak accident there, but he looks ok to go.

GT vs LSG Live Score: Siraj with the new ball, and he goes hunting full early. Easy pickings from Markram, leans into it and it's perfectly timed and placed through the covers.

Siraj immediately pulls his length back.

GT vs LSG Live Score: The two teams line up for the national anthem and to pay respects to the armed forces, and we are seconds away from the teams heading out to the pitch and getting us going. GT in their lavender kits today to raise cancer awareness.

GT vs LSG Live Updates: A handful of changes for LSG. Miller misses out again with Kiwi pacer O'Rourke opted for, and Shahbaz Ahmed comes in to replace Rathi. Akash Deep back ahead of Shardul as well.

LSG's playing XI: Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (c&wk), Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, William O’Rourke

Bench: Ravi Bishnoi, Akash Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, David Miller, Arshin Kulkarni

GT vs LSG Live Updates: Much like in Delhi a few days ago, Sai Sudharsan starts off the bench, but will come in for the batting innings. Otherwise no changes for the home team.

GT playing XI: Shubman Gill (c), Jos Buttler (wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Arshad Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Kagiso Rabada

Bench: Sai Sudharsan, Anuj Rawat, Mahipal Lomror, Washington Sundar, Dasun Shanaka

GT vs LSG Live Updates: Shubman Gill once again wins the toss, and unsurprisingly opts to chase on this pitch. No changes for the home team. Pant states he would have bowled first as well.

GT vs LSG Live Updates: Now granted hosting rights for the second qualifier and the final, acting as host for the third time in four years, this match will be the first of four at this venue in the next 11 days. Inasmuch, it should provide a good idea of what the pitch will play like for those as well. All four playoff teams watching on for that as well.

GT vs LSG Live Updates: Half an hour away from the toss in Ahmedabad, and despite the batting-first lean of results, teams might still prefer to chase as they have done throughout matches in this IPL. Will be interesting to see what option the winning captain chooses.

GT vs LSG Live Updates: Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill have just looked pristine at the top of the order, their double century opening partnership against DC showing that even time off didn't affect their flow. Sudharsan is on 617 runs, Gill not far behind on 601. While putting wins on the board remains the goal, there's no doubt that two run-scorers both will want the Orange Cap on their heads at the end of this tournament. Will the friendly competition between themselves continue to spur them on to greater heights?

GT vs LSG Live Updates: Look away if you're Rishabh Pant. 135 runs in 12 matches, averaging 12, striking at run-a-ball. There hasn't been a player of his calibre who has had this bad a season with the bat in the IPL, and if he has any intentions of rescuing it, you feel he needs a pair of half-centuries to close out the season, and cross that 200-mark for the season. GT have a dangerous bowling attack, one that isn't easy to face off against. But Pant does well in adversity. With no stakes and only pride to play for, can the real Pant show up for his fans?

GT vs LSG Live Updates: Amongst their fellows in the top 4, anybody could finish in the top spot. It's a long shot for MI, but the other two teams have considerably strong chances. Both teams will be hoping GT suffer a hiccup, which will not only take away that crucial top two but also arrest all the momentum they have generated thus far this season.

GT vs LSG Live Updates: GT lead LSG 4-2 since the two franchises were founded in 2022. The Titans set off to a hot start, dominating LSG by winning the first 4 games in a row. LSG were able to stop the rot after that, having won each of their last two games, including the one earlier this season.

GT vs LSG Live Updates: Big miss for LSG will be the sbence of spinner Digvesh Rathi, who has been their best bowler thus far this season. With 5 demerit points already racked up in his debut IPL season, it is something the team management will need to take seriously next year — but in the here and now, it means more will be demanded of the likes of Ravi Bishnoi and Avesh Khan in the bowling unit to have an impact.

GT vs LSG Live Updates: The one concern for GT will be if they can maintain the quaity of their batting with a big part of its core triumvirate set to miss the playoffs due to international duty. While he wasn't called upon in Delhi, having the banker of an elite international player's experience behind Gill and Sudharsan's obvious talent has made GT a team from hell to play against. Do they have the solutions in place to keep that methodology going when an inevitable downgrade needs to take place?

GT vs LSG Live Updates: Throughout this season, the Narendra Modi Stadium has proven to be a bat-first kind of track, with teams putting on 200+ totals and then successfully defending it in 3 out of 5 matches thus far. A fourth saw GT defend 196, while the only successful chase saw DC haul down 204 in the last over against DC.

With runs on offer, LSG will want their powerful top order to go punch for punch with GT's, and rely on a quicker scoring rate to see through the win. With a gulf in bowling quality, it will come down to LSG playing to their strengths.

GT vs LSG Live Updates: When they faced off at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow earlier this season, things looked very different in the IPL. Their win by 6 wickets in the day game saw them pull themselves to identical records with GT, at 4 wins from 6 games. Since then, GT have won 5 more times; LSG have won once.

But what it did show is that LSG have the ability and the firepower to compete with this GT unit. A repeat of that to put the cat amongst the pigeons in GT's top two aspirations?

GT vs LSG Live Updates: If you're in the GT camp, confidence is probably sky-high. They might have conceded 199 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, but that proved to be nowhere close to enough as a Sai Sudharsan century and unbeaten 93 from Shubman Gill guided them home with an over to spare. This late in the tournament, against a fairly strong team, such a strong result is a signal of intent. GT mean business, and have all the chips in place to go for a second title.

GT vs LSG Live Updates: After a pretty strong start to the season that had them in position to fight for the playoffs, it has somewhat come crumbling down for LSG. Inconsistent to start with but just unable to find wins since, LSG are only on 10 points after 12 games: despite the holes in their team, there is far too much quality for them to be struggling in such a way. They will be hoping for a positive note to end the season, with a finish on the cusp of the playoffs likely to give the a lot more confidence for next season.

GT vs LSG Live Updates: With their win in Delhi on the weekend, GT continued to stretch their dominance at the top of the IPL table. They are onto 18 points from 12 games, and with a couple of relatively straightforward fixtures ahead of them, will want that number to read 22 at the end of the campaign. A third top spot finish in four seasons in the IPL awaits. 

GT vs LSG Live: With the top four spots in the IPL table secure, it is all about trying to finish in the top two and earning two shots at reaching the final from here. Gujarat Titans are top of the table and the favourites to do so, but will need to put away a dangerous LSG team if they wish to do that. All the updates from this contest, right here.