EXPLAINED: Why Tilak Varma Walked Back To The Dressing Room Despite Being Not Out Vs LSG
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Mumbai Indians suffered their third defeat of the IPL 2025 against Lucknow Super Giants at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. As the match reached its last over, a strange occurrence happened on the field, and it involved star India batter Tilak Varma. He walked back to the dressing room in the middle of the 19th over. However, he was not dismissed by any LSG bowler.
Tilak Varma walked back to the dressing room, as he retired himself out. This is because he was not looking at all in form at the crease, having scored 25 from 23 balls. He was not able to time the ball to perfection. Since MI needed players to connect the ball for fours and sixes, they had to take back a terribly out-of-touch Tilak Varma.
Tilak himself entered as the impact player in place of Vignesh Puthur.
Tilak Varma becomes the fourth player ever to be tactically retired out by a team in IPL history. Ravichandran Ashwin was the first player to have retired out in the IPL, when he played for Rajasthan Royals against LSG in the 2022 season. IPL 2023 saw two players being retired out namely Gujarat Titans' Sai Sudharsan and Punjab Kings' Atharva Taide.
Mitchell Marsh, Digvesh Rathi Guide LSG To Big Win Vs MI
Mumbai Indians won the toss and chose to field first. LSG got off to a fantastic start, with Mitchell Marsh and Aiden Markram slamming 76 runs for thr first wicket. Marsh himself smashed 60 runs in the powerplay. In the latter half of the innings, it was Markram who continued the momentum slamming 53 runs. Ayush Badoni also chipped in with a quickfire 30, as LSG posted 203/8 in their 20 overs. Hardik Pandya starred with the ball with a five-wicket haul.
Mumbai Indians lost two early wickets before Naman Dhir got them back with a quickfire 46. Suryakumar Yadav also played brilliantly, scoring 67 runs. However the LSG bowlers, especially leg-spinner Digvesh Rathi, stemmed the run flow, as the away side could only manage to score 191/5. Rathi finished with figures of 1/21 in his 4 overs.
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