WATCH: Jonny Bairstow's blistering MI debut ends up with a juggled catch against GT in eliminator

The veteran England wicketkeeper-batter Jonny Bairstow announced his IPL debut for MI in a swashbuckling style, with a blistering knock against Gujarat Titans in the ongoing Eliminator of IPL 2025. Bairstow replaced Ryan Rickelton to open the innings for MI, alongside keeping the wickets. The explosive batter came to open the innings with former skipper Rohit Sharma.

The 35-year-old smashed 47 runs off just 22 balls, with four fours and three sixes, before his knock ended up in a juggled catch involving GT’s Sai Sudharsan and Gerald Coetzee. Bairstow was dismissed on the second ball of the eighth over, when he tried to play a reverse sweep off Sai Kishore.

The ball went towards Sai Sudharsan at the backward point, where the ball deflected after touching Sudharsan’s hands, and it was safely caught by Gerald Coetzee.

The video of this moment of Jonny Bairstow’s dismissal after a blistering knock also went viral on social media as soon as it was shared by a user on X (formerly Twitter).

Here’s the video:

BAIRSTOW SMASHED 47 FROM JUST 22 BALLS IN THE ELIMINATOR ON MUMBAI INDIANS DEBUT 👊 What a crazy Knock.#RohitSharma𓃵 #IPL2025 pic.twitter.com/ROBPp5QdsN

— Dinesh Verma (@DineshVerm1047) May 30, 2025

Rohit Sharma’s heroics power MI to 200+ total

Speaking of the current action of the match between GT and MI, Hardik Pandya’s men have scored 206 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 18.4 overs, at the time of filling this. Skipper Hardik Pandya is there in the middle at the score of 3 runs, as Naman Dhir just got dismissed off Prasidh Krishna.

Earlier in the innings for MI, the opening pair of Rohit and Bairstow provided a blistering start of 84 runs in just 7.2 overs. Rohit Sharma scored 81 runs off just 50 balls, with nine fours and four sixes. Furthermore, Suryakumar Yadav also smashed 33 runs off just 20 balls, with one four and three sixes, followed by Tilak Varma’s 25 runs off just 11 balls, with three massive sixes.

Prasidh Krishna and Sai Kishore have scalped 2 wickets each for GT in the first innings, alongside a wicket picked by Mohammed Siraj.