Gujarat Titans captain and opening batter Shubman Gill cut an unhappy figure as the umpires did not stop play despite a light drizzle and heavy winds hitting the Wankhede Stadium in the second innings of the Mumbai Indians versus Gujarat Titans game in the Indian Premier League on Tuesday. With a strong wind blowing across the Wankhede Stadium, which sits next to the Arabian Sea on Marine Drive in Mumbai, there was a brief spell of rain around the third over of Gujarat Titans’ chase of 156.
With steaming in in the third over, with Gujarat at 11/1, Gill moved away from the third ball and then exchanged words with the umpire while gesticulating at his face. The umpires did not ask teams to retreat to the dugouts. The rain stopped shortly and the game was good to go on.
The rains made an appearance once more with Gujarat batting on 27/1 after 5.2 overs. Since minimum five overs constitutes a game, the DLS par score was 36/1.
“One can totally understand what the umpires are doing. They are doing the right thing,” cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar said in the JioHotstar commentary during the sixth over as the light rains returned but the umpires still refused to ask both sets of players to get off of the ground. Gavaskar explained that the rains were not heavy enough in his assessment to stop play.
To make matters worse for Gujarat, right after the sixth over ended, the took their time out.
For the second day in a row, unseasonal rain interrupted an Indian Premier League game. This comes a day after the 2025 game between and at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad was called off on Monday without a ball being bowled in the second innings.
