Kusal Mendis made his debut in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the crucia 2025 eliminator match for Gujarat Titans (GT) against Mumbai Indians (MI). However, he had quite an unfortunate day on the field. While fielding, he dropped a pretty important cach of Rohit Sharma, who went on to score 83 to get MI to 228. He came out to bat at no.3, and got out in an unfortunate way despite looking good. He was unfortunately dismissed hit-wicket.

Kusal Mendis created an unfortunate record, as he became the first player ever to be hit-wicket in an IPL playoff game. Overall, he became the 17th player to be hit-wicket, and the second this season after Krunal Pandya vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). In fact, a previous GT vs MI game also saw a hit-wicket in 2022, with Sai Sudharsan falling prey.

Here is how Kusal Mendis got out:

Jos Buttler is currently not in the squad for the Gujarat Titans. He played all 14 games of the IPL 2025 group stage, but then left for England before the IPL 2025 playoffs. This is because he is part of the England squad that is currently taking on West Indies in three ODIs and three T20Is.

In his place, Kusal Mendis has joined the squad and replaced Jos Buttler in the playing XI.

Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to bat first, as they had a fantastic start courtesy a brilliant opening partnership by Jonny Bairstow and Rohit Sharma. Playing his first match Bairstow slammed 47 runs, an stiche an 84-run opening stand with Sharma.

Rohit stayed in the crease and went on to slam 81 from 50 balls in an innings studded with 9 fours and 4 sixes. Suryakumar Yadav also played a crucial knock of 33, while Tilak Varma also shined with 25 runs from 11 balls. Hardik Pandya gave MI some late momentum as h slammed 22 from 9 balls, as the side raced to 228/5 after the end of their 20 overs.

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