Mohammed Siraj, in his first match towards former group Royal Challengers Bengaluru after not getting retained forward of the IPL 2025 public sale, breathed hearth for Gujarat Titans on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday. In a terrific spell of quick bowling, Mohammed Siraj surprised RCB as he scalped Devdutt Padikkal and Phil Salt within the Powerplay. Siraj was a part of RCB for seven years. After he was picked by GT within the IPL 2025 public sale, Siraj wrote an emotional be aware for RCB followers: “From the primary ball I bowled in RCB colors, to each wicket taken, each match performed, each second shared with you, the journey has been nothing in need of extraordinary.”
Commenting on the Salt dismissal by Siraj, GT wrote on X: “Stumps to Siraj tonight – Mujhe Kyu Toda?”
Stumps to Siraj tonight – ? pic.twitter.com/9HUb5mfohS
— Gujarat Titans (@gujarat_titans) April 2, 2025
A Phil Salt orbiter
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It is all occurring in Bengaluru
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 2, 2025
SIRAJ ON FIRE AT THE CHINNASWAMY.
– That is class bowling. pic.twitter.com/dryaCw4fyn
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) April 2, 2025
Uncapped fast-bowling all-rounder Arshad Khan is available in for quick bowler Kagiso Rabada as Gujarat Titans received the toss and elected to bowl first towards an unchanged Royal Challengers Bengaluru in match 14 of IPL 2025 on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday. Wednesday’s match can also be desk toppers, RCB’s first house sport and fourth ranked GT’s maiden away sport of the continued season. After successful the toss, GT skipper mentioned Rabada is unavailable for the conflict on account of private causes, paving the best way for Arshad to return into the taking part in eleven.
“Seems to be like wicket. We have seen the circumstances do not change a lot. We’re all about lowering our unforced errors throughout all departments. We’ll attempt to finetune the areas that want it,” he mentioned.
RCB skipper Rajat Patidar, who bought an enormous cheer from the packed crowd within the stadium, mentioned, he would’ve bowled first as nicely as a result of pitch being contemporary. “It is fairly arduous and will not change a lot. The way in which boys are chipping in provides numerous confidence as a captain. We love this crowd. The way in which they love us and the help we have at all times obtained is unbelievable,” he mentioned.
Pitch quantity six is getting used for Wednesday’s match, a floor which wasn’t used final 12 months. As per the pitch report by the broadcasters, the wicket seems to be fairly dry but agency, however can have good bounce. The sq. boundaries stand at 68m and 61m respectively, whereas the straight boundary is at 73m.
Taking part in XIs
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (captain), B Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, R Sai Kishore, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, and Ishant Sharma
Substitutes: Sherfane Rutherford, Glenn Phillips, Anuj Rawat, Mahipal Lomror, and Washington Sundar
Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (captain), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, and Yash Dayal
Substitutes: Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Dar, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, and Swapnil Singh
With IANS inputs
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