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GT vs MI IPL 2025 Live Score, Gujarat Titans Vs Mumbai Indians IPL Eliminator Match Today: Hello and a very warm welcome to News18 CricketNext's live coverage of the IPL 2025 Eliminator between Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians.
Mumbai skipper Hardik Pandya won the coin toss ahead of the game and opted to bat first against Gujarat and enjoyed early joy on his decision as Rohit Sharma and Jonny Bairstow got the five-time champions off to a blistering start in the must-win game.
Rohit was the recipient of a charmed life as he as dropped not once, but twice early on in the game as Gerald Coetzee and Kusal Mendis made a fluff of the chances offered up by the former MI skipper, before Bairstow cut loose with 24-run over off Prasidh Krishna to take Mumbai to the fifty-run landmark before the end of the fourth over.
Bairstow fell just shy of his half-century as Sai Sudharsan and Coetzee combined to take the catch of the Englishman off R Sai Kishore for GT's first breakthrough of the game.
Suryakumar Yadav walked out to replace the Englishman, while Rohit brought up his half-century to take MI into triple-figures before the midway point in the innings.
Sai Kishore doubled his tally for the day with the scalp of Yadav for 33 off 20, before Rohit fell to Prasidh Krishna after adding 81 runs off50 deliveries.
Naman Dhir and Tilak Varma fell for 9 and 25 runs respectively to Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj, before Hardik Pandya's unbeaten 22 off just 9 deliveries took Mumbai to a total of 228 runs in 20 overs.
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