Mistake weighed heavily on Gujarat Titans: learn how they lost.

The 26th match of IPL 2025 was played at the Ekana Cricket Stadium between Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants. In this match, Rishabh Pant & Company won a stunning win by 6 wickets. The Gujarat Titans scored 180 runs losing 6 wickets while batting first. In response, Lucknow chased the target of 181 runs in 19.3 overs.

Let us tell you the turning point of this match, due to which Gujarat Titans had to face defeat.

Unable to score 200 runs, he was heavy on Gujarat Titans

The Gujarat Titans made a brilliant debut batting first against the Lucknow Super Giants. Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan shared a 120 -run partnership for the first wicket. On the first ball of the 13th over, Shubman became a victim of Avesh Khan. He scored 60 runs in 38 balls. After this, Ravi Bishnoi dismissed Sai Sudarshan in the very next over. Sai Sudarshan scored 37 runs from 37 balls.

After the dismissal of Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan, there was no big partnership between any batsmen from Gujarat. The team had scored 120 runs for 12 overs, but then the team was able to score just 60 runs in the next 8 overs. Batsmen like Jose Butler (16), Washington Sundar (2), Sherfen Rutherford (22), Shah Rukh Khan (11) could not play big innings. If the team of Gujarat Titans could have been able to win more than 200 total boards on the board, then perhaps they would have won the match against Lucknow Super Giants.

Gujarat Titans bowled poorly in powerplay

The Gujarat Titans team could not take any wicket in the powerplay during Lucknow’s innings, due to which the team lost the match. Lucknow scored 61 runs without losing any wickets in the powerplay. Mohammad Siraj took two overs in the powerplay and looted 26 runs. The famous Krishna created two opportunities to dismiss Aiden Markram in the 5th over. But first Arshad Khan dropped the third man and then Sai Sudarshan dropped the catch. Markram took advantage of Jeevan Daan and scored 58 runs in 31 balls with the help of 9 fours and a six.