Mumbai looked to be winning as the Gujarat attack bowled some tight overs in the last overs.
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Nobody would have foreseen the storyline when the Mumbai Indians needed to win by 48 runs from 36 balls and had seven wickets left. In addition to becoming the first club in Indian Premier League (IPL) history to defeat the Betway Login India Gujarat Titans, the visitors were also on track to become the first side to win a season’s opening game since 2012.
Even though the GT bowlers produced a magnificent show in the last overs to starve out the run-scoring, Hardik Pandya made a heroic attempt to keep Mumbai in the match. Even still, Teen Patti Joy indifference prevented Gujarat from winning the exciting game at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, preventing Yadav from making a memorable return to his old squad.
Mumbai Dafabet looked to be winning as the Gujarat attack bowled some tight overs in the last overs. Rashid Khan conceded just three singles in the 17th over. Mohit Sharma conceded nine runs and a wicket in the eighteenth over. Debutant Spencer Johnson conceded just eight runs and two wickets in the match’s penultimate over. In the last over, Mumbai had 19 runs to chase following a valiant effort by the bowlers.
The visitors had some hope in the opening ball of the last over when Hardik, who stirred up some controversy by starting the match at No. 7 for Mumbai instead of his top-order role at GT the previous two seasons, slammed a six over extra cover and then a boundary as an enthusiastic Ashish Nehra went back to his seat as Sachin Tendulkar, ecstatic, commended the effort. MI required nine runs from the last four balls.
When Hardik failed to clear the boundary with the third delivery of the over, Umesh supported his short- and quick-bowling style by giving Rahul Tewatia an easy catching opportunity at long-on.
Piyush Chawla, an experienced Indian fast bowler, produced a short ball that was straight and flat and fell into Rashid Khan’s hands at deep mid-wicket on his subsequent delivery.
After taking two wickets in a row, GT was suddenly back in the game and Nehra was back on the sidelines as Sachin stayed quiet and uneasy in the dugout.
Gujarat easily won by six runs at home as MI could not summon any opposition in the final two deliveries, taking just one wicket each with the bottom order exposed.