Tilak Varma: The match between Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2025 was played on Friday. In this match, Mumbai Indians lost by 12 runs. But with the defeat of Mumbai in the match, the fans did not like the team's star player Tilak Verma to retire. He was called back to the pavilion at the last stop of the match. Fans have also trolled him for this decision of the franchise. But do you know that this is the fourth case to retire in IPL. Even before this, three players have fallen victim to it. Who are those players? Know ...

Not Tilak Varma, this player was the first victim of retired out

The 18th edition of the Indian Premier League is being played this year. But the first year of retiring came in 2022. In this case, while playing for Rajasthan Royals, Ravichandran Ashwin retired himself out. After which he returned to the pavilion. This was the first retired out case of the league. Actually, Ashwin was sent before Ryan Parag in the match. Then Ashwin was out after two balls of the 19th over, when the total score of the team was 135 runs for 4 wickets. After which Ryan scored 8 runs after facing four balls. That decision was questioned, but then it proved to be a masterstroke.

Two cases of retired out came in 2023 before Tilak Varma

Retired outs started in the year 2022. In the next season itself, two cases were reported. In the year 2023, Punjab Kings had withdrawn the Atharva Taida, playing against Delhi Capitals at the grounds of Dharamshala. At the same time, such a case was also reported from Gujarat Titans in this season. Gujarat also adopted the technique of retired out by player Sai Sudarshan. At that time, the captain of the team was Hardik Pandya. The batsman had dismissed himself to give a strike to Rashid Khan. So that Rashid can end the match. Rashid hit the first ball out of two balls and Gujarat Titans scored 233 against Mumbai Indians.

Questions raised on retired out of Tilak Varma

Now the case of retired out in 2024 was seen in the 16th match of the league. The match was played against Lucknow Super Giants and Mumbai Indians. Where Tilak Verma, who was scoring 25 runs in 23 balls, came to retired and returned to the pavilion. Fans are expressing displeasure over his retired out on social media. This step to win the match was taken by the franchisee. But in the last the team lost by 12 runs.