{"id":619948,"date":"2026-04-20T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619948\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:05:09","slug":"tilak-varmas-swashbuckling-century-leads-mumbai-indians-to-crushing-win-over-gujarat-titans-jasprit-bumrah-takes-first-wicket-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/619948\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilak Varma\u2019s swashbuckling century leads Mumbai Indians to crushing win over Gujarat Titans, Jasprit Bumrah takes first wicket of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swashbuckling batter Tilak Varma hit his maiden IPL century to lead Mumbai Indians to just their second win of the campaign as they hammered Gujarat Titans by 99 runs on Monday.<\/p>\n

Varma\u2019s unbeaten 101 off 45 balls steered five-time champions Mumbai to 199-5 after the heavyweights had slipped to 96-4 at Gujarat\u2019s home in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n

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The bowlers then took over as pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah claimed his first wicket of the season on the first ball of Gujarat\u2019s chase to help bundle out the opposition for 100 in 15.5 overs.<\/p>\n

Mumbai, who last won the IPL title in 2020, began this season with a win but four defeats in their next four outings dented their ambitions.<\/p>\n

Mumbai Indians’ Tilak Varma celebrates after scoring a century.Source: AFP<\/p>\n

Their second win in six matches lifted the team from the bottom of the 10-team table to seventh place.<\/p>\n

Skipper Hardik Pandya was an animated figure throughout the course of the match as his side got back to winning ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always challenging to go away and win,\u201d said Pandya. \u201cAnd yeah, we just played good cricket. And it feels very special because it was much needed.\u201d <\/p>\n

Bumrah\u2019s wicket of Sai Sudharsan for a golden duck fired up Pandya, who hugged his lead bowler, and then a later stunning catch in the deep by Naman Dhir further pleased the captain.<\/p>\n

Pandya trapped Jos Buttler lbw for five in the second over and as impact substitute Ashwani Kumar dismissed opposition skipper Shubman Gill, Mumbai were on the front foot.<\/p>\n

Mumbai\u2019s New Zealand spinner Mitchell Santner struck twice in three balls in the eighth over to send back Washington Sundar, courtesy of Dhir\u2019s catch, and Glenn Phillips to further dent the chase.<\/p>\n

Medium pace bowler Ashwani was the stand-out with figures of 4-24. But it was Varma\u2019s fireworks with the bat that stole the show for Mumbai as the middle-order batter struck eight fours and seven sixes in his blitz.<\/p>\n

Mumbai Indians’ Jasprit Bumrah reacts after taking the wicket of Gujarat Titans’ Sai Sudharsan.Source: AFP<\/p>\n

Varma punished the Gujarat pace bowlers to all parts of the ground and finally reached his hundred with a six and four on the last two balls of the innings.<\/p>\n

He started slowly and was on 19 off 22 balls at one stage, but in his next 23 balls he smashed 82 runs to make it an evening to remember for himself and Mumbai.<\/p>\n

Gujarat have three wins and three defeats from six outings this season and Gill called the latest loss \u201ca small hiccup\u201d, adding the team will soon get back to winning ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swashbuckling batter Tilak Varma hit his maiden IPL century to lead Mumbai Indians to just their second win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[2620,23316,192355,64,63,689,26808,740,1950,192330,42163,300600,13849,53630,300603,137509,48290,1736,677,300604,139072,163884,129292,10536,85,300599,300605,300601,300602],"class_list":{"0":"post-619948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-ahmedabad","10":"tag-ashwani-kumar","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","14":"tag-cooper-connolly","15":"tag-cricket","16":"tag-cricket-news","17":"tag-glenn-phillips","18":"tag-hardik-pandya","19":"tag-indian-cricket-player","20":"tag-indian-premier-league","21":"tag-jos-buttler","22":"tag-medium-pace-bowler","23":"tag-mitchell-santner","24":"tag-mumbai-indians","25":"tag-new-zealand","26":"tag-oceania","27":"tag-opposition-skipper","28":"tag-pace-bowlers","29":"tag-pace-spearhead","30":"tag-shammi-mehra","31":"tag-shubman-gill","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-star-outscores-opposition","34":"tag-swashbuckling-batter","35":"tag-swashbuckling-century","36":"tag-swashbuckling-century-leads"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}