Gujarat Titans train in Ahmedabad as IPL 2025 waits for resumption

Despite the uncertainty around the resumption of IPL 2025, Gujarat Titans (GT) are one team that have carried on normal business. ESPNcricinfo has learned that the table-toppers of the ongoing season have continued training despite the tournament being suspended for a week on May 9 following the escalation in cross-border tensions between India and Pakistan.

After the league was suspended, several overseas players and coaching staff left India in the following 24 hours. GT was the only team that did not disband completely, with only the overseas pair of Jos Buttler and Gerald Coetzee returning home to England and South Africa, respectively. Most of their players and support staff members stayed back in Ahmedabad, the home city of the franchise, to train at the Narendra Modi Stadium.

The ceasefire was announced on Saturday evening and BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia said on Sunday that the board would "duly announce the date of IPL restart" once it had consulted "all stakeholders and the concerned government authorities."

GT are currently leading the points table. They have eight wins from 11 games, just like Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) but with a better net run rate. Two of their remaining three games were to be played at home - against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) - and the other against Delhi Capitals (DC) in Delhi.

GT's openers B Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill are second and third, respectively, in the Orange Cap race. Both have over 500 runs and are behind only Mumbai Indians' (MI) Suryakumar Yadav. GT's fast bowler Prasidh Krishna is leading the Purple Cap race with 20 wickets.