Mumbai got huge advantage on the points table due to the explosive win over Gujarat.
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After suffering 4 consecutive defeats in the Indian Premier League 2026, Mumbai Indians team registered a resounding victory. The 99-run win against Gujarat Titans gave the team the advantage in the points table. Tilak Verma played a brilliant century and played an important role in the team’s victory.
New Delhi. Mumbai Indians broke their four-match losing streak with a spectacular win against Gujarat Titans on Monday, April 20. In this match of IPL 2026 played in Ahmedabad, Mumbai scored 199 runs for 5 wickets, thanks to Tilak Verma’s first IPL century (101 runs in 45 balls). Gujarat won by bowling out Titans for 110 runs in 15.5 overs. The team got the advantage of victory on the points table.
After the win over Gujarat in Ahmedabad, Mumbai Indians jumped three places in the points table. Now she has reached number seven. Mumbai has 4 points in six matches. After that there are Chennai Super Kings, Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders. KKR has scored 3 points in 7 matches so far, while CSK and LSG also have 4 points each, but Mumbai is ahead of them due to better Net Run Rate (NRR). Gujarat Titans remains at sixth position in the points table. This team of Ahmedabad has collected 6 points in six matches.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad batsman Heinrich Klaasen is the frontrunner in the race for the Orange Cap in IPL 2026. After him is the name of Gujarat captain Shubhman Gill. Gill scored 14 runs in 13 balls against Mumbai Indians and now he has a total of 265 runs in five matches. He is 18 runs behind Klaasen, who has scored 283 runs in six matches. RCB’s Virat Kohli is in third place with 247 runs. After him is Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Suryavanshi (246) and RCB captain Rajat Patidar (230).
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CSK fast bowler Anshul Kamboj is the leader in the race for Purple Cap in IPL 2026. He has taken 13 wickets in six matches. Prasidh Krishna has reached second position by taking one wicket in Mumbai Indians’ match against Gujarat. He has 12 wickets in his name in six matches this season. Apart from the famous Kagiso Rabada for Gujarat, he took three wickets and now his total is 10 wickets, which makes him sixth in the Purple Cap leaderboard. For Mumbai Indians, Ashwani Kumar took four wickets in his first match of IPL 2026, while Allah Ghazanfar dismissed two Gujarat batsmen for 17 runs in 2.5 overs.
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