Gujarat Titans (GT) to e book their place within the Indian Premier League (IPL) playoffs with a 34-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in match quantity 62 of 2023 season on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Monday.
IPL 2023: Gujarat Titans vs Sunrisers Hyderabad – HIGHLIGHTS
Mohammed Shami appeared ominous with the brand new ball as he eliminated the likes of Anmolpreet Singh, Abhishek Sharma and Aiden Markram as Yash Dayal, enjoying his first match since being pulverised by Rinku Singh, obtained the wicket of Rahul Tripathi.
Mohit Sharma too pitched in with the scalps of Sanvir Singh, Abdul Samad and Marco Jansen.
Heinrich Klaasen was the one star with the bat for SRH, scoring 64 runs from 44 balls, together with 4 fours and three sixes, earlier than being dismissed by Shami with David Miller finishing the catch.
Mohit too took his fourth wicket to finish Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s keep, 26-ball 27, on the crease.
Earlier, Shubman Gill’s scored his maiden IPL century as GT posted 188/9 towards SRH, regardless of Bhuvneshwar producing figures of 5/30.
After struggling an early blow within the opening over, Shubman Gill (101 off 58) and Sai Sudharsan (47 off 36) set the inspiration for an enormous whole with their 147-run stand, which Marco Jansen broke within the fifteenth over and turned introduced SRH again within the sport.
GT’s three large hitters fell within the subsequent three overs earlier than Bhuvneshwar (5-30) bowled an excellent ultimate over the place the Titans misplaced 4 wickets and managed so as to add simply 2 runs to the overall of 188/9.
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Bhuvneshwar struck on the third ball of the innings and dismissed the opener Wriddhiman Saha for a duck. The opener went for the lower shot however edged it to the second slip the place Abhishek Sharma took a very good catch going to his left.
After shedding the primary wicket early, Shubman Gill and B. Sai Sudharsan collectively collected 10 boundaries, taking the Power-Play rating to 65 for the lack of one wicket.
The duo continued punishing SRH bowlers with their boundary hits and crossed the 100-run partnership midway by means of the innings. In the method, Gill accomplished his fifth fifty.
The Titans batters have been placing strain on Sunrisers as Marco Jansen overstepped and conceded a no-ball, adopted by a large on the free hit. A misfield on mid-wicket from Bhuvneshwar gifted a boundary to the batter.
GT continued to motor alongside will Gill’s strokeplay and Sudharsan being fortunate on three events, when might have been run out. Markram has tried seven bowlers however nothing has labored as SRH have been struggling in each division.
But Sunrisers made a breakthrough within the slog overs because the Titans suffered a sudden collapse with simply 41 runs coming for the lack of seven wickets.
Jansen made a breakthrough within the fifteenth over as he broke a 147-run stand with the wicket of Sudharsan.
Captain Hardik Pandya got here and pulled it onerous towards the deep square-leg area, to start with a 4, however Bhuvneshwar didn’t let him keep for lengthy and eliminated him the following over.
Hardik slashed onerous and lower it straight to Rahul Tripathi on the backward level area. He took a positive catch and the GT skipper departed for 8.
Natarajan, then, eliminated David Miller, who smashed it away however hit it flat and the ball rapidly went towards long-on the place Markram took a pointy catch round his face.
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The subsequent over Rahul Tewatia stepped out and elevate it over lengthy off however the ball sliced up excessive towards mid-off, the place Jansen got here in from the deep to take a strong catch and GT misplaced one other wicket.
Meanwhile, Gill introduced up his maiden IPL century with a single within the nineteenth over. But, Bhuvneshwar despatched him again quickly after his hundred within the ultimate over. On the following supply, he dismissed Rashid Khan.
Rahul Tewatia stepped out once more and appeared to elevate it over long-off however it’s manner too early within the shot. The ball obtained sliced up excessive towards mid-off and Marco Jansen is available in from the deep to take a strong catch.
Noor Ahmad walked out to bat, Bhuvneshwar didn’t get the hat-trick to his identify but it surely was a crew hat-trick for SRH as Noor tried to sneak a single through bye. Klaasen’s underarm throw went to Bhuvneshwar on the bounce and he hit the bullseye on the bowler’s finish to catch Noor wanting his floor.
On the following supply, the seasoned pacer claimed his fifer, sending Shami again on the penultimate ball as Titans posted 188/9 in 20 overs.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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