Hardik has a shy at the stumps, and Hardik misses! And he misses against the team that he called his own for a few years, and to a side that became synonymous with success while he was at the helm! A finish and a finale from fantasy for the Titans, and they have stunned the Wankhede! They were up against a hostile crowd, up against a star-studded Mumbai Indians, up against the elements and the weather, and they have outlasted all of them! A win that will give them two points tonight, and a tale to tell for years and years and years! Coming back to the ball now. This is a very full ball just outside off. Arshad drills it back to mid off and he has to set off for a single. Hardik collects cleanly and then has a shy at the stumps. He has all three stumps to look at and under pressure, he cracks. He fails to hit the stumps and Arshad, sprawling and scrambling and scampering, watches from a prone position as the ball flashes past, and soaks in the Titans' rise to the top of the table. Should someone else have gotten to the stumps? Could someone else have gotten there? Should Chahar have been there, like Vaibhav Arora was for KKR the other day? Could SKY have gotten there sooner from extra cover? Could have, should have, and we will probably never know, but what we will go back home is with a bagful of memories and a truly, truly dramatic game of cricket!
MI vs GT, 56th Match at Mumbai, IPL, May 06 2025 - Ball by Ball Commentary
GT won by 3 wickets (with 0 balls remaining) (DLS method)
1:01am And...breathe. After a game that began yesterday and stretched for more than five hours. But it was a game worth waiting for. Especially with what was at stake, and especially because how badly both teams wanted to win it. We hope you enjoyed our coverage and we will be back with more IPL action in about 17 hours from now. Until then, from Thilak, Sudeep and myself (Shashwat), this is goodbye!
Shubman Gill, the Gujarat Titans captain is also the Player of the Match: There was a little bit of chaos when we came in to bat after the rain. But always good to have a W (beside your name) after the match. The game plans were definitely different in the powerplay. There was wind and some rain, and it felt like a Test match for the first four or five overs, had to play normal cricket. After the powerplay was over, we tried to play our normal cricket a little more. (How challenging it was keeping an eye on the DLS target) On this wicket, pretty challenging. The wicket was a little bit slow. With rain coming in, shots were not easy to hit through the line. Wanted to rotate strike and go for it if the balls were in our zones. (On the emotions in the dugout during the final rain delay) Lot of emotions. Most of them were frustrating because at one point, we were so ahead. But then four overs of play, 20 runs for four wickets, it felt like one of those Test sessions that do not go your way. Universe gave us another chance, and everything worked out (in the end). A match where it goes till the last ball, every contribution becomes crucial. Sherfane, all the bowlers, the small, small things in the field - those are the moments that make a big difference. Even after a game like this, where it was so chaotic, it is wins like this that gets you through a tournament like the IPL. (On Rashid's bowling) It is not easy coming back from an injury. But the way he has been working hard in the nets and bowled today is a good sign for us. (On qualification) Thoughts like this can creep in but we want to play each game as it comes. We do not want to play for one (first), two (second) or three (third) positions, but about giving our best in every game we play.
Hardik Pandya, Mumbai Indians captain: Yes, definitely (tough way to go down). Fought well with the total we had. Times where we were out of the game, but we pushed as a group. It was a game of margins. It was definitely not a 150-wicket. It was a 175-wicket, we were short by 20-25-30 runs. Credit to the bowlers - they kept fighting, and we could not finish (the job). Catches did not really cost us, but the No balls, with my No balls and even in the last over, in T20s, it is a crime and more often than not, it bites you. Really happy with the boys for giving their 120 percent, ensuring we were in the game and not giving up. The ground, in the first innings, was not wet but post that, throughout, the ball kept getting wetter. Not sure if it helped us or not, it was difficult. Rain kept coming in, not ideal to have stoppages and start again. We had to play a game (in the end) and we definitely did.
Gerald Coetzee: (On his six in the final over) I was just in the see-ball, hit-ball (zone). I thought he (the bowler) was going to go yorkers. The bouncer (that got me out) surprised me. (On if he loves celebrating) Yes, I do. I love to play hard. (GT environment for him) Very good. The environment is really good and relaxed. It looks intense, but it is all planned and very good.
12:41am Oh goodness. What a game. You could search this season through and through, and you may still not find a better one than this. It was not a 200-plays-200 contest, but it was blockbuster. A twist here, a turn there, a dramatic moment here, and then some more theatre somewhere else. And in the end, it all came down to one over. One over of cricket after a rain delay.
Chahar bowled it, and he could not close it out, despite the Titans needing 15. Tewatia first took him for a boundary before Coetzee clubbed him over long off. There was a brief moment of resistance, when Coetzee fell to a short ball but that was soon overridden by the frustration and the sheer despair of a missed direct-hit, which could have taken the game into a Super Over.
Prior to all of that drama, Buttler and Gill had kept GT well in the chase, with Rutherford's cameo also quite useful. But around the rain intervals, the Titans lost the plot, losing wickets in a clump and putting themselves under all sorts of pressure. Bumrah and Boult, two champion cricketers, were protagonists in triggering that collapse. But as the game veered towards the conclusion, MI just could not get the job done. Which may sting, but given how many they had on the board, they will also feel they gave this contest a proper, proper rattle.
Arshad out to face the last ball. No pressure lad! Rickelton has taken a glove off. Everyone up apart from deep square and deep third
an agricultural swipe across the line and Coetzee perishes, just on the brink of a famous, famous win! And this game twists again, and this game threatens to turn some more! Banged in short and the batter's eyes light up. He tries to smash it into next week but shanks it completely. Dhir settles himself in the square leg region and does the rest. Coetzee admonishes himself walking back, but someone else will have to get the job done now!
scores level! Low full toss on the stumps. Tewatia gets his front leg out of the way and drags it towards deep mid wicket. GT are almost there!
Just two needed now
another excellent response. A yorker on leg stump and Coetzee cannot get under it, squeezing it out towards deep backward square leg. But the siren goes off soon after. Chahar has overstepped and this is the bowler feeling the pressure and the crunch of the situation. Oh dearie me!
4 off 3 now. Surely this is GT's game to lose from here?
Gerald Coetzee slams it into the stands, and the Gujarat Titans are roaring in the rain! Another slot ball outside off and Coetzee cannot believe what has been dished out. He sits deep in his crease and clobbers it over long off!
10 off 4. Coetzee on strike
right into the blockhole on off stump. Tewatia digs it out towards extra cover and that is just a single. Top, top delivery after the boundary off the previous ball
11 off 5, and this is very familiar territory for Tewatia now. And MI are taking their time again (of course they are)
oh, hello! Oh, hello! Right in the slot just outside off. Tewatia plants his front foot, goes through the line and boshes it over mid off's head!
12:29am We are back on. Chahar has the ball, and if this drama was not enough, MI have been handed an over-rate penalty too, which means they can only have four fielders outside the ring. 15 off 6, Tewatia on strike. Over the wicket - here we go, again!
12:24pm The umpires are chatting to the umpires now, with Rohit Sharma and Mohammed Siraj also in close attendance. Hardik then moves away and seems to be preparing for what looks like the completion of the game. But soon after, he walks over to a patch and complains to the fourth umpire that it is soft underfoot. That said, we have confirmation that this game is back on. 12:30am start. 147 is the target, and this is a 19-overs game, which means GT need 15 off 6 to seal this game.
12:21am The sheet that was covering the pitch is also off now. This could be happening, folks!
12:19am There seems to be a puddle on some part of the ground, but as I type that, the covers are being peeled off.
12:16am Okay. The umpires have now made their way out and are chatting to the ground staff. Saidharshan Kumar looks at his watch, and this is probably a chat around how quickly they can make the ground ready. Touch-and-go territory this. We can start a game at 12:30am, and it will then be a 19-over chase, which means GT will have one more over to get this game done, and the TV broadcast suggests that the target then could be 15 off 6 balls.
Aparajit: "Considering minimum 10 mins for ground staff to make the ground ready, isn't it over for GT?" -- With the amount of rain that has fallen, they might need a little more than ten minutes to get the ground ready and playable. This is, pretty much, a race against time, and at this point, rain is winning.
12:11am The rain seems to have eased up but it is still drizzling, which does not bode well for this game, which was simmering beautifully and heading towards a proper finale. The Titans, remember, are behind on the DLS Par Score, and if there is no further cricket, MI will win and go to the top of the table.
12:08am Arpit Gupta: "Is it still raining?" -- Yes, it is.
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11:53pm The cut-off time (for when a 20-over game can restart) is 12:25am local time. But at the moment, it is raining very steadily at the venue.
24 off 12. DLS Par Score is 137. This is anyone's game from here. And the rain is getting heavier, and the players are going off too. Oh, you cannot make this up - this is drama of the highest kind, and this blockbuster will have to wait for a climax!
Coetzee lands his first blow, and that sucks the life out of the crowd completely! Low full toss on middle stump. Coetzee gives himself room and does so early, bludgeoning it back past the bowler for a much-needed boundary!
GT ten runs behind the DLS Par Score at this stage
in the air, but safe! Low full toss outside off. Tewatia gives himself room and throws the kitchen sink it, slicing it just over backward point
MI hunting like a pack of wolves now, and GT are feeling the pinch. And to add to the drama, it has started raining again...
missed run out chance! Almost a yorker just outside off. Coetzee cannot get under it and clinks it towards mid off. Hardik takes aim with Coetzee hurtling across, but cannot hit bullseye
into the blockhole on middle and off. Coetzee jams down on it and digs it out towards extra cover
Coetzee, who has hardly played this season, now walks in, with GT needing 30 off 16
thunders into the back leg, and the umpire says nothing doing! Big, big call! MI go upstairs! Searing yorker that seems to finish in line with leg stump. Rashid misses its trajectory completely and plays down the wrong line. Gets pummeled on the back leg and if the impact is in line, this could be it for Rashid. Pitching in line, impact in line, and ball hitting leg stump two-thirds of the way up. Rashid has to go too, and the impossible, which became improbable a few minutes ago, now seems within reach!
thunders into the back leg, and the umpire says nothing doing! Big, big call! MI go upstairs!
darted in full on middle and leg. Tewatia presses forward and works it towards deep mid wicket
31 off 18. Bumrah and Boult have turned this game right on its head. But GT may have a chance now, with both of them being bowled out. Tewatia on strike, Ashwani to bowl
hard length, honing into middle and off. Rashid wants to drop and run to extra cover but Tewatia says no. The fielder has a shy and misses, and Bumrah soon asks himself to just keep things calm and retain composure
half-volley outside off and that is a rare loose ball by Bumrah to a new batter. Rashid rocks forward and times it sweetly past extra cover for a brace
Rashid now
knocks him over, and Bumrah just stares down Shahrukh after all of it! Back of a length, slanting into middle and leg. Shahrukh has a wild slog across the line and misses it, with the ball deflecting off the back leg onto off stump. Shahrukh perishes trying to put MI's best bowler under pressure, and he has fallen woefully short. MI keep believing, and GT sink further into trouble!
33 off 21
A bit of afters with Bumrah, it seems, with the commentators on air referring to it as well
massive lbw shout, followed by a run-out chance - it is all happening here! Fired in very full on leg stump. Shahrukh falls across and then plays all around it. The ball kisses the pad and then rolls towards the keeper, who hits the stumps at the batters end, with Shahrukh wandering down initially. Made it back just in time!
MI had 123 on the board after 16.2 overs too...
Bang! Shahrukh takes Bumrah for a boundary! Right in the slot outside off and Shahrukh does not miss out. Gives it all he has and blasts it past extra cover!
zipped in on alength on off. Tewatia gets forward and pushes it calmly towards long on
Bumrah to bowl out. Around the wicket. 38 off 24
full just outside off. Tewatia rocks forward confidently and eases it to long on. Keeps strike too
Over 19 • GT 147/7
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