Mohammed Siraj picked four wickets during the SRH vs GT game in IPL 2025.
Gujarat Titans (GT) pacer Mohammed Siraj has explained how the lifting of saliva ban from the Indian Premier League (IPL) has helped bowlers. Ahead of the IPL 2025 season, the organisers had confirmed that the use of saliva, which was banned during the COVID-19 pandemic, would be permitted once again.
“Even if the ball tails a bit (due to the use of saliva), it becomes easier to get wickets (especially bowled and lbw) dismissals. The wicket is on the slower side. Just tried to attack the stumps as much as I can,” Siraj said during the mid-innings break of the game against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Hyderabad.
Against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Mohammed Siraj finished with impressive figures of 4/17, a performance which helped Gujarat Titans helped restrict the hosts to 152/8. The former Sunrisers Hyderabad pacer removed Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma and Simarjeet Singh during the SRH vs GT match on Sunday. Those figures were his career-best figures in the IPL. Siraj also became the 12th Indian pacer to clinch 100 wickets in the tournament. The speedster has taken nine wickets from four games so far this season.
Gujarat Titans had won the toss and opted to field first against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The Pat Cummins-led side only managed to post a total of 45/2 in the powerplay phase. Middle-order batters Nitish Kumar Reddy (31) and Heinrich Klaasen (27) looked to stabilise their innings. Pat Cummins (22*) also did his bit with the bat, but the hosts were eventually restricted to 152/8 from 20 overs.
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At the time of writing this report, Gujarat Titans were 90/2 in 11 overs, with Shubman Gill (43*) and Washington Sundar (41*) the unbeaten batters.
Sunrisers Hyderabad currently lie rock-bottom of the points table with two from four matches, whereas Gujarat Titans are in third place with four points from three matches.
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