Tilak varma retired out controversy: IPL 2025 match number 16 was played between Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants. During this match, Mumbai Indians decided to retired Tilak Verma out of the remaining seven balls while chasing against Lucknow Super Giants. The special thing is that when the star batsman Tilak Verma was decided to dismiss in this strange way, Mumbai Indian captain Hardik Pandya was frozen at the other end.
Mumbai Indians decided to retire Tilak Verma in the run chase against Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL 2025 match on Friday (April 4). Tilak was scored at 25 balls at that time.
Batting at 25 off 23 in the run chase, #Tilakvarma Retired Himself out to make way for Mitchell Santner!
Only the 4th time a batter has retired out in the IPL!
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Now, if seen according to Tilak Verma, then this figure does not match at all. During his turtle speed innings, Tilak hit only 2 fours and his strike rate was 108.69. While the overall IPL’s strike rate is 143.13. In such a situation, no one could understand why the tilak was batting so slow.
Meanwhile, Shardul Thakur took command of bowling towards Lucknow’s team in the 19th over. Shardul Thakur threw the 19th important over, which made the biggest impact on the result of the match. At that time, Mumbai Indians needed 29 runs to win in the last two overs, captain Hardik Pandya and Tilak Verma were at the crease. Thakur’s over (6 balls) scored only seven runs, with a double run on the last ball.
Just before the last ball of Shardul Thakur’s over, the Tilak went out of the ground (retired out), after which Michhel Santner came to bat in his place. At that time, Mi needed 24 runs off 7 balls, but Avesh Khan successfully defended 22 runs in the final over and gave a match for LSG.
Pandya-Jaivardene explained the reason for the retired out of Tilak
After the defeat to Lucknow, captain Hardik Pandya said- it was a very closure that we were needed some hits and he was not getting it, in cricket, a day comes when you really try but it does not happen, I think this decision itself tells why we did this.
At the same time, Mumbai team coach Mahela Jayawardene also talked about Tilak Verma’s retired out. Mahela said- I waited for the last few overs, because he had spent some time there, so he should have been able to achieve that hit, but I felt that I just needed a new player, and were struggling. Jayawardene admitted that it was not good to get Verma out of the game, however, he defended it and said that it was a ‘Tactial Policy’. Suryakumar Yadav, who was sitting in the dugout after the out Honor, was also surprised by Mahela’s decision. At the same time, Harbhajan Singh, Hanuma Vihari and some other cricketers also raised questions.
Retiring tilak for santer was a mistake in my opinion. Is santner a better hitr than tilak? If it was for pollard or some other accompled to have I would have undress. But duon’t agre with this. Come on @Mipaltan
– harbhajan turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) April 4, 2025
Tilak Verma Retired out for Santner ???
Make me make sense !!!
Hardik Struggled vs GT Never was retired out! Why Tilak then?– Hanuma Vihari (@hanumavihari) April 4, 2025
IPL Retired Out Players List in IPL
Ravichandran Ashwin, vs Lucknow Super Giants, Wankhede, 2022
Atharva Taida, vs Dilli Capitals, Dharamshala, 2023
Sai Sudarshan, vs Mumbai Indians, Ahmedabad, 2023
Tilak Verma, vs Lucknow Super Giants, Lucknow, 2025*
What happened in Lucknow vs Mumbai IPL match?
In this match, Mumbai Indians were defeated by Lucknow Super Giants by 12 runs. Batting first, LSG scored 203/8 runs with the help of opener Michelle Marsh (60 off 31 balls) and Aden Markram (53 off 38 balls). At the same time, Mumbai captain Hardik Pandya (5/36) completed his first five wicket hall in T20 cricket.
After this, despite the innings of 67 runs with the help of nine fours and a six off 43 balls of Suryakumar Yadav, Mumbai team could only score 191 runs for five wickets. On behalf of the Lucknow team, Shardul Thakur, Akash Deep, Avesh Khan and Digvesh Rathi took one wicket each for LSG. At the same time, Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma got out of the match due to knee injury during practice on the net.