IPL 2025 Today Eliminator Match, GT vs MI Predicted Playing 11 Live Updates: Can Mumbai Indians land knockout punch to Shubman Gill’s Gujarat Titans?

GT finished third in the points table after winning nine games in 14 league-stage matches. MI, on the other hand, were the last team to qualify for the knockouts and finished fourth with 16 points via eight wins in as many league games.

The five-time champion Mumbai will face a stern challenge when they face Gujarat, who have reached two finals since making their debut in the IPL in 2022.  The focus will be on MI’s batting mainstay Suryakumar Yadav and GT skipper Gill. In bowling, Mumbai’s duo of Trent Boult and Jasprit Bumrah will have an equal match in Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj of Gujarat.

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Suryakumar Yadav’s 73-run knock against Delhi: A throwback to pre-360 degree life

Suryakumar Yadav is imaginative on belters, and prudent in difficult climes (Sportzpics)

The first beam of light from Suryakumar Yadav’s bat to the third-man fence flashed in the penultimate ball of Mumbai Indians innings. The 42nd ball he faced against Delhi Capitals, he crouched and dabbed a wide yorker past the wicket-keeper to the sprawling real estate between third man and fine-leg where T20 batting’s greatest field-space-time manipulator, in the post AB-era, finds a bulk of his runs.

It took his most familiar boundary route to realise that he had taken the most unfamiliar path to travel this far. Then, the innings, an outlier in his album of improvised destructibility, captured his firm grounding in the pre-modern times, a throwback to the pre-360-degree life of Suryakumar.

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