Gujarat Titans (GT) and Mumbai Indians (MI) will face each other at the Mullanpur Stadium on Friday, May 30, in the Eliminator of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. Both teams have been former champions and know how to make their way to the podium, but they will have a tall task ahead of them. Only once has a team that finishes outside the top two won the championship since the playoffs format was introduced in 2011, when Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore to win in 2016.
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GT will walk into the match as the more confident side, given their 5-2 win-loss record against MI, including a 2-0 record in IPL 2025. On the other hand, Hardik Pandya, who is currently captaining MI and led GT to their first title, will try to become the first captain to win the trophy for multiple franchises.
Mullanpur Stadium: Pitch report for GT vs MI IPL 2025 Eliminator
The Mullanpur Stadium presents a fair battle between bat and ball. The pitch plays true and encourages fluent stroke-making during the initial stages, aided by a fast outfield that rewards well-timed shots. As the game wears on, spinners tend to come into play, especially in the latter half of the innings. Even though the ground saw the lowest successful IPL total of the season, just 111 runs, it tends to favor batters more than bowlers, giving them more chances to score runs.
New PCA Stadium, Mullanpur (in T20s since 2023)
- Matches: 17
- Bat 1st Won: 10
- Bat 2nd Won: 7
- Average 1st Innings Score: 173/6 (Run Rate – 8.65)
- Lowest Total Defended: 111
- Highest Target Chased: 175
- 200+ Totals (excluding shortened matches): 2 times in 15 matches
1st Innings score 170 or above:
- Matches – 10
- Bat 1st Won – 9
- Bat 2nd Won – 1
- Matches – 6
- Bat 1st Won – 0
- Bat 2nd Won – 6
Recent match at Mullanpur Stadium
Other key stats at Mullanpur Stadium
A total of ten matches have been played at this venue, with teams batting first winning five times and teams chasing emerging victorious on five occasions. There have been no matches with no result. Interestingly, the toss has not played a decisive role, as teams have won five matches each after winning or losing the toss. At the stadium, the average first-innings score is 167. The highest team total recorded here is 219/6 by Punjab Kings (PBKS) against Chennai Super Kings (CSK), while the lowest is 111 all out, also by PBKS, against Gujarat Titans (GT).