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Mumbai lost the first match of the season for the 11th consecutive time
Published - 24-MAR-2024 19:27 IST | Updated - 15-APR-2024 4:57 IST

Mumbai lost the first match of the season for the 11th consecutive time: Lost the last 5 wickets for 18 runs, Gujarat defeated by 6 runs.
Gujarat Titans (GT) defeated Mumbai Indians (MI) by 6 runs in the 5th match of the Indian Premier League-2024. Mumbai has lost its first match of the season for the 11th consecutive time. The team's last win in the opening match was in the 2012 season. Then the team had defeated CSK.
While chasing the target of 168 runs in Ahmedabad on Sunday night, Mumbai could score only 162 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. Earlier, Gujarat, batting first, scored 168 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Sai Sudarshan contributed 45 runs and captain Shubhman Gill contributed 31 runs. Jasprit Bumrah took 3 wickets. Gerald Cooties got 2 wickets. One wicket came in the account of Piyush Chawla.
For Mumbai, Dewald Brevis scored 46 runs and Rohit Sharma scored 43 runs, but could not give his team the first win of the season. In the last two overs, Spencer Johnson and Umesh Yadav bowled brilliantly and took 2-2 wickets. Before these two, Mohit Sharma and Azmatullah Omarzai also took 2-2 wickets.
In the first match of the day in Jaipur, Rajasthan Royals defeated Lucknow Supergiants by 20 runs.Sai Sudarshan was the player of the match. He played an inning of 45 runs on 39 balls.
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Mumbai has lost its first match for the 11th consecutive season. Gujarat won this thrilling match by 6 runs. Umesh Yadav made a brilliant comeback after spending 10 runs on the first two balls of the last over and won the match for his team by taking 2 consecutive wickets.
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On the second ball of the 19th over of Spencer Johnson, Tilak Verma played a flick at deep backward square and Abhinav Manohar caught it. Verma was out after scoring 25 runs.
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Mohit Sharma bowled a slower ball on the last ball of the 18th over. Tim David mistimed it and was caught by David Miller at mid-wicket. David was out after scoring 11 runs.
After Rohit Sharma, Brevis also missed his fifty, Mohit got out.
Mumbai got its fourth blow on the 5th ball of the 16th over. Here Mohit Sharma caught and bowled Dewald Brevis. Brewis was out after scoring 46 runs on 38 balls.
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