The Mumbai Indians finally displayed a brilliant all-round performance to cap off a huge 99-run win over the Gujarat Titans in their Indian Premier League 2026 clash at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Monday, April 20. Well led by Tilak Varma's century and strong bowling displays from several bowlers, MI inflicted GT with their biggest IPL loss to return to winning ways in the Indian cash-rich league.
MI were on song in the second innings but were stumbling in the first innings until Tilak picked them up with a 45-ball century and powered them to a challenging total of 199/5. With momentum behind them, the bowlers did very well to back the batters as they bowled the hosts out for just 100 in 15.5 overs to register a Net-run-rate boosting win in Ahmedabad. This win also marks MI's first-ever win over GT at the Narendra Modi Stadium.
Tilak's masterclass sets things for MI
While the bowlers did a brilliant job, it was Tilak Varma who laid the foundation for this big win. He came in at No.5 when MI were at 44/3. He anchored the innings before MI went down to 96/4 in 12.3 overs. He saw off the challenging time and then launched an all-out attack in the final six overs. Tilak was on 19 runs from 22 balls but then put the GT bowlers to the sword as he scored 82 runs in the final six overs that period to bring up the joint-fastest century for MI off just 45 balls. His knock took MI to 199/5 and handed the team the much-needed momentum.
Jasprit, Hardik jolt GT at the start; Ashwani, Santner follow suit
After Tilak, it was the bowlers' job to restrict the top-heavy GT batting line-up and who else to bank on other than Jasprit Bumrah. The MI talisman was handed the first over in the innings, and he struck on the first ball, removing Sai Sudharsan, caught at covers. Hardik Pandya came in for the second over and removed Jos Buttler LBW to send GT 5/2. Ashwani Kumar and Mitchell Santner then took the baton as the impact sub pacer dismissed GT captain Shubman Gill before Santner came in with a double wicket over, getting Washington Sundar caught at deep mid-wicket and getting Glenn Phillips caught and bowled.
Ashwani kept the GT batters under the pump and took three more wickets, while Allah Ghazanfar struck twice too. He got Rahul Tewatia nicked behind and then removed Rashid Khan at covers. Ashwani struck for the fourth time when he got Shahrukh Khan caught at backward square leg on a slower ball before Ghazanfar took the remaining two to wrap things up.
