Former India player turned veteran commentator  Aakash Chopra has picked death bowling as one of the Gujarat Titans’ (GT) potential challenges in IPL 2025 as well. He also added that Kagiso Rabada is not a renowned death bowler as well. However, GT bought Rabada for ₹10.75 crore at the IPL 2025 auction. Mohammed Siraj (₹12.25 crore), Prasidh Krishna (₹9.50 crore), Gerald Coetzee (₹2.40 crore),
Mohd Arshad Khan (₹1.30 crore), Gurnoor Singh Brar (₹1.30 crore), Ishant Sharma (₹75 lakh), and Kulwant Khejroliya (₹30 lakh) were their other prominent seam-bowling options as well.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “Do they have established death bowlers? We don’t consider Kagiso Rabada an established death bowler. We feel he becomes slightly expensive there. Gerald Coetzee is the same story. He proves expensive at the death. Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj – all of them can be expensive at the death. So they have many good options with the new ball. The new ball will move as well and they will pick up wickets, they will be very impressive, but you might find a potential weakness at the death in their team. There isn’t a specialist death bowler. It could be a slight challenge.”

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However, Aakash Chopra also chose middle-order batting as the Gujarat Titans’ other probable challenge in IPL 2025 as well.

“If the top is so good, they have a slightly inexperienced and untested middle order, where you will find Mahipal Lomror, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Glenn Phillips/Sherfane Rutherford, and you start thinking that they are not that explosive. When we were talking about LSG yesterday, they have (Rishabh) Pant, (Nicholas) Pooran and (David) Miller – wow. We spoke about Mumbai before that, and there we saw Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya and Naman Dhir – very, very good. The middle order here doesn’t give you that kind of confidence,” Aakash Chopra concluded.