In the match played against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Gujarat Titans bowlers performed brilliantly and did not let the batsmen play freely. But Gujarat's fielders did not support their bowlers much and the team had to suffer the consequences.

Royal Challengers Bangalore fans would not have thought that their batsmen would struggle in the very first match of IPL 2025 at their home ground. Gujarat Titans bowlers performed brilliantly and stopped Bangalore from scoring big. Shubman Gill's team's fast bowlers kept Bangalore's batsmen tied down. But despite this, the team had to pay the price of one of its mistakes in the form of a 'penalty' of 45 runs. Gujarat made this mistake not once but many times and Livingstone as well as Gujarat benefited from it.

Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans clashed at Chinnaswamy Stadium on Wednesday, April 2. In this match, Bangalore batted first and Gujarat's fast bowlers devastated the team right from the beginning. Bangalore lost 4 wickets by the 7th over, while only 42 runs were scored. At such a time, all eyes were on Liam Livingstone and he played a strong innings.

Catch dropped on 9 runs

But during this innings, the players of Gujarat made such a mistake, for which the team had to pay the penalty in the form of extra runs. Actually, in the 11th over of the innings, Livingstone played a very high shot in the air on the ball of left-arm bowler R Sai Kishore. But Rahul Tewatia, who was near the boundary, dropped this catch and Livingstone got a lifeline. At that time, this batsman was playing on just 9 runs. Livingstone returned after scoring a fighting half-century.

Repeated mistakes resulted in loss of 45 runs

But Gujarat players did not make this mistake just once. Even after this, they were kind to Livingstone. In the 14th over, wicketkeeper Jos Buttler missed the opportunity of stumping. He was then on 21 runs. Then in the 18th over, Sai Kishore missed Livingstone's catch on the boundary on Rashid Khan's ball and the ball went for 6 runs. At that time he was on 35 runs. In total, Livingstone got 3 lives. Finally, he returned to the pavilion after scoring 54 runs. That means if Gujarat had caught Livingstone earlier, Livingstone would not have been able to add 45 more runs to his account and Bangalore's innings would not have reached even 169 runs.