In an amazing movement during their IPL 2025 clash against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), the Mumbai Indians (MI) made a strategic decision to withdraw their Tilak Varma batter, despite the fact that the team needed 24 races of the last 7 balls. Suryakumar Yadav was not satisfied with the decision as images of the game were revealed.

Tilak, who had scored 25 races of 23 balls, was replaced by Mitchell Santner, a left arm spinner, hoping to send a new batter that could reach some rapid limits.

Tilak’s fight to obtain limits in his entries caused the call to withdraw. The chief coach of me, Mahela Jayawardne, and Captain Hardik Pandya explained that, despite Tilak’s efforts, she could not accelerate the persecution. “We needed some successes, and could not get them,” Pandya said in the presentation after the party, referring to the decision as obvious.

“He (Tilak) just wanted to start, but he couldn’t,” Jayawardene said later. “(We) we wait until the last overs, hoping that, because it had been there for some time, I should have been able to get that blow, but in the end I only needed someone fresh, and I was fighting.”

Suryakumar discontent with the call to withdraw tilak varm for mitchell Santner

While Hardik declared that it was a call “obvious”, the movement seemed to confuse the star batter of me, Suryakumar Yadav, who seemed bewildered to see the decision. The footage shows a bewildered interrogation of suryakumar with gestures with his hands on why Tilak was removed. Jayawardene then proceeded to explain things as shown in the video.

However, team leadership intervened to clarify its reasoning, and Jayawardne said the decision was made after Tilak fought to get a limit, and the team hoped that a new batter could have better luck.

Look at Mahela Jayawardne explains the decision to withdraw tilak varma to Sky