In the match against Lucknow Super Giants, Mumbai Indians needed a target of 204 runs to win but Tilak Verma, who came to the crease after the fall of 3 wickets, had to struggle for every run and finally he was forced to leave the crease.

Young Indian batsman Tilak Verma, who stole the show by thrashing the bowlers in South Africa a few months ago, would not have even thought that he would yearn to score every run and become the reason for the team's defeat. Something similar happened with Tilak in IPL 2025, where all his attempts to hit fours and sixes failed and he had to face embarrassment. In the match against Lucknow Super Giants, Tilak had to retire out in the 19th over due to his poor batting. With this, he became only the second batsman to be out in this manner in the IPL.

Made an impact for Lucknow instead of Mumbai

In this match played at Ekana Stadium, Mumbai Indians had to achieve a target of 204 runs to win. After a bad start, Mumbai scored 86 runs in 8 overs with the help of explosive partnership of Naman Dheer and Suryakumar Yadav. This is where Tilak Verma came in after Naman was out in the 9th over. Tilak was brought into this match as an impact substitute but the impact he was supposed to make for Mumbai, he unknowingly made for Lucknow.

On one hand, Suryakumar Yadav was speeding up Mumbai's run chase by hitting fours and sixes, while on the other hand, Tilak Verma was craving for every run. Boundaries stopped coming from his bat and he was seen struggling badly for big shots. When Suryakumar Yadav was out in the 17th over, Tilak Verma could score only 17 runs in 18 balls, while Mumbai needed 52 runs at that time. Even Hardik Pandya scored a boundary as soon as he came but Tilak could not succeed in it.

Second batsman to retire out

Mumbai needed 29 runs in the last 2 overs but when Tilak Verma could not score any boundary in this over too, the team decided to retire him out after the fifth ball. Tilak, who came with the hope of winning the team, retired out after scoring just 25 runs in 23 balls. In this way, he became only the second batsman to retire out in IPL history. Before him, in 2022, Ravichandran Ashwin also retired out in the match against Lucknow while playing for Rajasthan.

Mumbai team finally lost this match by 12 runs. For the second time this season, Tilak Verma's slow innings during run chase proved costly for Mumbai. Earlier, while chasing the target of 197 runs against Gujarat Titans, Tilak scored only 39 runs in 36 balls. Mumbai had to face defeat in that match too.

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