Mumbai Indians' six-match winning streak came to a dramatic halt as Gujarat Titans pulled off a last-ball win in a rain-interrupted game on Tuesday. With 15 runs needed off the final six balls, MI had to decide between Hardik Pandya, Deepak Chahar, Karn Sharma or Will Jacks. However, the team went ahead with Deepak Chahar, but the pacer failed to defend the target as MI lost the game by three wickets. While many questioned MI's decision to throw the ball to Chahar, Head Coach Mahela Jayawardene backed the decision to trust the pacer. “Deepak did that job for us when Booms [Jasprit Bumrah] was not there [for the first few games of the season]. He was good, our main bowler,” Jayawardene explained. Also READ: “No-balls are a crime”: Hardik Pandya rues errors after last-ball loss to GT MI had apparently made their choice even before stepping back onto the field after the rain delay. With Chahar taking the responsibility, the final over unfolded with a mix of tension and mistakes. Chahar bowled a no-ball, conceded a four, and then a six, as Gujarat Titans pulled off a last-ball victory. Despite the drama, Jayawardene didn’t think the decision itself was wrong. “It's easier for you to ask me that question now and for me to say, ‘yeah, maybe Hardik’. But had Hardik gone for three sixes, you might have asked me why we didn’t bowl Deepak. I don't like to go to that,” Jayawardene said. "It wasn’t the decision, it was the execution": Jayawardene reflects on final-over defeat Jayawardene pointed out that the loss wasn’t about the choice of bowler but rather how the over was executed. While MI had control of the game at various stages, the lapses in execution cost them dearly in the final moments. “Throughout the game, we made some good decisions with the ball when we had to attack. Deepak's execution – a couple of balls he missed, they hit some good shots, we bowled a no-ball as well – and we still came down to the last ball," he said. For the MI head coach, the disappointment wasn’t in the strategy but in the failure to execute under pressure. “It was not the decision; it was the execution. That’s where we lost the game. My thinking is we lost the game when we had control of it, and that was disappointing.” Also READ: Operation Sindoor: Indian cricketers react after terror camps struck in Pakistan Meanwhile, the Mumbai Indians are currently in the fourth spot with two more matches to go. The team must win both of them to guarantee a direct qualification. They can still qualify if they win one of them, but will have to depend on other results.