The 39th match of IPL 2025 was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Gujarat Titans. In this match, Gujarat Titans defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by a huge margin of 39 runs and achieved their sixth win this season. Gujarat Titans had set a target of 199 runs in front of Kolkata team, in response, Kolkata team could score only 159 runs. Captain Shubman Gill played the highest innings of 90 runs in 55 balls for Gujarat Titans.

Talking about this match, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and decided to bowl first. In response, batting first, both the openers of Gujarat Titans team, Sai Sudarshan and Shubman Gill, made a partnership of 114 runs in 74 balls for the first wicket, in which Sai Sudarshan scored 52 runs in 36 balls. He hit 6 fours and a six in his innings. Captain Shubman Gill played an innings of 90 runs in 55 balls with the help of 10 fours and three sixes.

After this, Jos Buttler, who came to bat at number three, played an unbeaten innings of 41 runs with the help of 8 fours in 23 balls. Rahul Tewatia could not even open his account after facing two balls. Shahrukh Khan scored 11 runs in five balls. For the Kolkata Knight Riders team, Vaibhav Arora took one wicket for 44 runs in four overs. Apart from this, Harshit Rana took 1 wicket for 45 runs in four overs. Andre Russell also took one wicket for 13 runs.

Ajinkya Rahane played a slow innings in the run chase

Chasing the target of 199 runs given by the Gujarat Titans team, the Kolkata Knight Riders team had a very bad start and in the very first over, Rahmanullah Gurbaz was out LBW on the ball of Mohammad Siraj. After this, Sunil Narayan also returned to the pavilion after scoring 17 runs in 13 balls on Rashid Khan's ball. After two wickets fell for just 43 runs, captain Ajinkya Rahane and Venkatesh Iyer tried to handle the innings and made a partnership of 41 runs in 36 balls.

But this partnership was going very slow, so in an attempt to increase the run rate, Venkatesh Iyer got out on Sai Kishore's ball. Venkatesh Iyer scored 14 runs in 19 balls, while Ajinkya Rahane did score 50 runs but for this he faced 36 balls. And when he had to bat fast, Ajinkya Rahane returned to the pavilion after being stumped out.

Now all the hopes depended on the batting of dangerous batsman Andre Russell. But Andre Russell also became a victim of Rashid Khan's ball after scoring 21 runs in 15 balls. Ramandeep Singh, who was expected to bat well, also returned to the pavilion after scoring one run in two balls. Moeen Ali could not even open his account and was out on the ball of Prasidh Krishna. From the Gujarat Titans team, Prasidh Krishna took two wickets for 25 runs in four overs. Apart from this, Rashid Khan also spent 25 runs in four overs and took two wickets.

Twitter reactions after GT wins 39th match of IPL 2025

 

E Kkr vallaki SRH ante jai antadhi 😏#Kkrvsgt pic.twitter.com/HGqvJQpVYR

— Addicted To Memes (@Addictedtomemez) April 21, 2025

 

Tree 🌴 plantation drive by KKR 💜 #KKRvsGT pic.twitter.com/COwnmab2sY

— memer manish (@memer_manis) April 21, 2025

 

KKR fans watching #KKRvsGT after abusing the team left, right, and centre for their last performance: pic.twitter.com/3yYnuUbxGY

— αdil. (@ixadilx) April 21, 2025

 

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KKR Team with KKR fans😂🔥 pic.twitter.com/1wZ63bMiMg

— कट्टर KKR समर्थक 🦁🇮🇳 ™ (@KKRWeRule) April 11, 2025

 

#KKRvsGT
Gujrat Titans Win Matter >> 🔥😌 pic.twitter.com/ID5G77M43Z

— Prof cheems ॐ (@Prof_Cheems) April 21, 2025

 

Gareeb Ki Gareebi Ka Fayeda Utha Liya 🌝#ShubmanGill #KKRvGT #KKRvsGT pic.twitter.com/VC47xRh0SQ

— chacha (@meme_kalakar) April 21, 2025

 

GAUTAM GAMBHIR KNIGHT RIDERS IT IS!

KKR should dissolve itself when GG is not its mentor. The players should go on a 4 year break, should vibe on wavy, watch wwe & make prestige sponsors food. pic.twitter.com/RVQPX4cZSr

— abhi 🅴 (@CFCAbhii) April 21, 2025

 

#GTvsKKR

🚨Me with my family, GT again win & top of the table with 12 points of IPL 2025.....🤩🥳

E haallooo..💃🕺🤩 pic.twitter.com/Bd86PWOAJU

— काजू कसाटा / શનિ 🇮🇳 (@kaju_boy8890) April 21, 2025

 

KKR fans watching #KKRvsGT after abusing the team left, right, and centre for their last performance:

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— Dev Ruwala (@Dev_Ruwala) April 21, 2025

 

Nacho .. unbelievable win by KKR 😍 #KKRvsKXIP pic.twitter.com/3wAniMQD1n

— Funnily Serious (@notionalvieww) October 10, 2020

 

Tewatia To Catch Out Ho Gya 🤣🤣#KKRvsGT #KKRvGT pic.twitter.com/RR0dr10Wc4

— chacha (@meme_kalakar) April 21, 2025

 

Trophy 🏆 Do Or Khatam Karo
#KKRvsGT #KKRvGT pic.twitter.com/u8fXkn8IZN

— chacha (@meme_kalakar) April 21, 2025