By Admin 
Under the pressure of IPL final, Gujarat Titans’ batting flopped badly. In front of the powerful bowling attack of RCB, international players like Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler failed to score big. In the final match being played in Ahmedabad, Gujarat team could score only 155 runs.
There have not been many occasions when a team has scored 200 or more runs in the IPL final. If we look at the present instead of history, the difficulty for Gujarat team has increased in the final, because it has to defend the score of 155 runs against the strong batting line-up of RCB equipped with star batsmen like Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar. What is possible, has a lower score than this ever been defended in an IPL final?
129 runs defended in IPL final
If you have the will to win, then what difficulty cannot be overcome? Mumbai Indians team lived up to this saying in the final of IPL 2017. MI team had scored 129 runs while batting first and Rising Pune Super Giants had to achieve a small target to become the champion.
In that match, Mitchell Johnson and Jasprit Bumrah wreaked havoc and destroyed the batting of Pune Super Giants. Mumbai won that match by one run on the last ball. Mumbai had defended a small score of 129. Gujarat still scored 155 runs in the final of IPL 2026.
Lowest score to be defended in IPL final
- 129 runs – Mumbai Indians vs Rising Pune Super Giants (2017)
- 143 runs – Deccan Chargers vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (2009)
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