IPL 2023, MI vs GT, 57th Match: Mumbai Indians beat Gujarat Titans by 27 runs, Rashid looted the party with explosive innings
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The 57th match of IPL 2023 is between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans today. The match is taking place at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Both the teams currently remain in the top four of the points table. Both will try to win this match and strengthen their claim in the playoffs. Although, it is almost certain that Gujarat will play the playoffs, but for Mumbai, there may be difficulties if they lose this match. Gujarat Titans won the toss and decided to bowl first. Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl first. Chasing is easy at Wankhede ground. For this reason, Hardik has taken this decision. There is no change in both the teams.
Gujarat Titans have won eight out of their 11 matches and are at the top of the points table with 16 points. This team is almost certain to play the playoffs, but it is yet to be officially stamped. On winning this match, Gujarat will become the first team to qualify for the playoffs. Like last season, Gujarat has shown a great game this year as well. The Gujarat team, which won three out of the first five matches, has won five out of the next six matches. This team also won the last two matches and would like to seal a place in the playoffs with a hat-trick of wins.
This season has been full of ups and downs for Mumbai Indians. With six wins and five losses in 11 matches, Mumbai has 12 points and is fourth in the team points table. After losing the first two matches, Mumbai won the next three matches, but then lost two more matches. After this, Mumbai has made a comeback by winning three out of four matches. Now Mumbai will try to win this match and get 14 points. In this situation, Mumbai will come in third place and will further strengthen their claim for the playoffs.
Mumbai Indians beat Gujarat Titans by 27 runs. Batting first, Mumbai Indians scored 218 for five thanks to Suryakumar Yadav’s 103 runs. In response, the Gujarat team could only score 191 runs for eight wickets and lost the match. Rashid Khan scored an unbeaten 79 for Gujarat, but he did not get any support at the other end and could not win his team. Apart from Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma scored 29, Ishaan Kishan 31 and Vishnu Vinod scored 30 runs for Mumbai in the first innings of the match. At the same time, Rashid Khan took four wickets and Mohit Sharma took one wicket for Gujarat.
Playing XI of Mumbai Indians: Ishan Kishan (wk), Rohit Sharma (c), Cameron Green, Suryakumar Yadav, Nehal Wadhera, Tim David, Chris Jordan, Vishnu Vinod, Piyush Chawla, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya
Playing XI of Gujarat Titans: Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Vijay Shankar, Hardik Pandya (c), David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Abhinav Manohar, Mohit Sharma, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Noor Ahmed
MI 218/5 (20) Mumbai Indians won by 27 runs
GT 191/8 (20)
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