{"id":13110,"date":"2026-04-20T20:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13110"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:25:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:25:41","slug":"130400832-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13110","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I don&#8217;t think we hit right areas&#8217;: Shubman Gill blames bowlers after GT bowled out for 100 vs MI in IPL 2026 | Cricket News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130400956,imgsize-37920,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/mnb-60.jpg\" alt=\"'I don't think we hit right areas': Shubman Gill blames bowlers after GT bowled out for 100 vs MI in IPL 2026\" title=\"Ashok Sharma, Shubman Gill\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Ashok Sharma, Shubman Gill\">Ashok Sharma, Shubman Gill<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gujarat Titans were bowled out for 100, but captain <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shubman-gill\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Shubman Gill<\/a> blamed bowlers after the 99-run defeat to Mumbai Indians in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/indian-premier-league\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Indian Premier League<\/a> 2026 match on Monday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Gill said his side gave away too many runs in the middle overs and failed to control the flow despite understanding the pitch conditions.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>&#8220;Honestly, I think we gave away too many runs in the middle overs. On a wicket like that, I think 160-170 was a par score. But I think there are a lot of learnings for us from this game,&#8221; Gill said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>He added that the loss should be treated as a learning phase as Gujarat prepare for their next set of away matches.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>&#8220;I mean, a small hiccup, but now we&#8217;ve got a couple of games on the road, so hopefully we will come back on the winning side again,&#8221; he added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>The defeat was Gujarat Titans\u2019 biggest margin of loss in the IPL, going past their 83-run loss to Chennai Super Kings in 2025 and 63-run defeat to the same team in 2024, according to CricViz data.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Gill pointed to execution issues, especially in the middle overs, where Gujarat failed to apply pressure.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>&#8220;I think the wicket was a little bit on the slower side. I don&#8217;t think we hit the right areas. The length ball wasn&#8217;t coming on as well, some balls were coming, some weren&#8217;t, and some were keeping low. I think we could have hit that length in the middle overs a bit more consistently, which we were not able to,&#8221; he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>On whether conditions changed in the second innings, Gill said the pitch remained similar, with some improvement due to dew.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>&#8220;I think it was pretty similar. If at all, it could have gotten a little bit better because I think there was a bit more dew when we were batting,&#8221; he added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>Mumbai Indians posted 199\/5 after batting first, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/player-profile\/tilak-varma\/70761\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Tilak Varma<\/a> scoring an unbeaten 101 off 45 balls. They recovered after early wickets and scored strongly in the final overs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/>Gujarat lost Sai Sudharsan for a golden duck and were 45\/3 inside six overs before collapsing further.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>Ashwani Kumar took 4\/24, Mitchell Santner took 2\/16, and AM Ghazanfar took 2\/17 as Gujarat were bowled out for 100.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"37\"\/>With this result, Mumbai Indians moved to seventh place with two wins and four losses from six matches, and a net run rate of +0.067.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"39\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/i-dont-think-we-hit-right-areas-shubman-gill-blames-bowlers-after-gt-bowled-out-for-100-vs-mi-in-ipl-2026\/articleshow\/130400832.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashok Sharma, Shubman Gill Gujarat Titans were bowled out for 100, but captain Shubman Gill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19885,31389,4479,4412,4955,4393,1153],"class_list":["post-13110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gujarat-titans","tag-gujarat-titans-defeat","tag-indian-premier-league","tag-ipl-2026","tag-mumbai-indians","tag-shubman-gill","tag-tilak-varma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}