The 2025 season was the 4th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise Gujarat Titans. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 IPL. The team was captained by Shubman Gill and coached by Ashish Nehra.
Gujarat Titans finished in third place in the league stage, and advanced to Eliminator in the playoffs. However, they lost to Mumbai Indians in Eliminator. Sai Sudharsan scored the most runs (759) while Prasidh Krishna took the most wickets (25) for Gujarat in the 2025 season; which were also the most in the 2025 IPL by any team.
Pre-season
The 2025 Indian Premier League was the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Gujarat Titans had previously won the title once in their debut season of 2022. The team finished in eighth place in the previous season. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 3 June 2025. Gujarat played all their home matches at Narendra Modi Stadium.
Player retention Franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of six players from their squad, including a maximum of five recent international players. Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 31 October 2024. Gujarat retained five players, including captain Shubman Gill.
+ Retained players No. Player Salary 1 Rashid Khan 2 Shubman Gill 3 Sai Sudharsan 4 Rahul Tewatia 5 Shahrukh Khan
+ Released players Batters Wicket-keepers All-rounders Fast bowlers Spin bowlers Kane Williamson David Miller Abhinav Manohar Wriddhiman Saha Matthew Wade Robin Minz BR Sharath Azmatullah Omarzai Vijay Shankar Mohammed Shami Darshan Nalkande Josh Little Mohit Sharma Kartik Tyagi Umesh Yadav Sushant Mishra Spencer Johnson Sandeep Warrier Gurnoor Brar Sai Kishore Jayant Yadav Manav Suthar Noor Ahmad
Auction The season's auction took place on 24 and 25 November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction purse for each franchise was set at , with the franchises being deducted an amount from the purse for each retained player. Gujarat had a purse remaining of . Franchises that did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match (RTM) cards at the auction for each player not retained. Gujarat had one card available. Gujarat bought twenty players in the auction, including twelve capped players and six overseas players. Gujarat used their RTM card to buy back Sai Kishore for .
Squad Players with international caps as of start of 2025 IPL are listed in bold. Ages are as of . Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol () and placed at the bottom of the table.
+ Gujarat Titans squad for the 2025 Indian Premier League S/N Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Salary Notes 3 Manav Suthar Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 4 Kulwant Khejroliya Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast 5 Washington Sundar Left-handed Right-arm off break 7 Shubman Gill Right-handed Right-arm off break Captain 16 Jayant Yadav Right-handed Right-arm off break 19 Rashid Khan Right-handed Right-arm leg break Overseas 20 Arshad Khan Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast 23 Sai Sudharsan Left-handed Right-arm leg break 25 Kagiso Rabada Left-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas 29 Ishant Sharma Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 35 Shahrukh Khan Right-handed Right-arm off break 43 Prasidh Krishna Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 46 Rahul Tewatia Left-handed Right-arm leg break 60 Sai Kishore Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 62 Gerald Coetzee Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas 68 Sherfane Rutherford Left-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas 73 Mohammed Siraj Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Gurnoor Brar Left-handed Right-arm medium-fast Karim Janat Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas Kumar Kushagra Right-handed Mahipal Lomror Left-handed Left-arm orthodox Kusal Mendis Right-handed Right-arm leg break Overseas; temporary replacement Anuj Rawat Left-handed Dasun Shanaka Right-handed Right-arm medium Overseas; replacement Nishant Sindhu Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 63 Jos Buttler Right-handed Overseas; withdrawn Glenn Phillips Right-handed Right-arm off break Overseas; withdrawn
Support staff Matthew Wade replaced Mithun Manhas as assistant coach while, Parthiv Patel replaced Gary Kirsten as batting coach.
Position Name Head coach Ashish Nehra Assistant coach Matthew Wade Batting coach and mentor Parthiv Patel Source:
League stage Gujarat Titans began their season with a loss against Punjab Kings. They won their next four matches against Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals; lost to Lucknow Super Giants; won against Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders; lost to Rajasthan; and won their next three matches against Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi. Gujarat lost their last two matches of the stage to Lucknow and Chennai Super Kings to finish the league stage in third place with nine wins from 14 matches, and advanced to Eliminator in the playoffs.
Points table
League progression
Fixtures
Playoffs Bracket
Eliminator
Statistics At the IPL end of season awards, Sai Sudharsan was awarded for scoring most runs and most fours in the season and as the Fantasy player and the Emerging player of the season; while Prasidh Krishna was awarded for most wickets and Mohammed Siraj was awarded for most dot balls.
+ Most runs Runs Player 759 Sai Sudharsan 650 Shubman Gill 538 Jos Buttler 291 Sherfane Rutherford 179 Shahrukh Khan + Most wickets Wickets Player 25 Prasidh Krishna 19 Sai Kishore 16 Mohammed Siraj 9 Rashid Khan 6 Arshad Khan
References Original 2025 IPL Schedule vs Revised 2025 IPL Schedule
General references
External links
Gujarat Titans at IPLT20.com