Gujarat Titans performed brilliantly against Kolkata Knight Riders on their home ground and easily won the match. Batting first, KKR team scored 180 runs losing 10 wickets in 20 overs, but Gujarat easily achieved this target on the basis of excellent batting. Captain Shubhman Gill played an important role in the team’s victory, who played a brilliant inning of 86 runs in an aggressive manner.
Gujarat’s bright start
Gujarat had a very fast start to chase the target. Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan added 57 runs for the first wicket and gave a strong base to the team. Sudarshan scored 22 runs in 16 balls, which included two sixes and a four. After this, Jos Buttler also scored quickly and strengthened the team’s position by adding 25 runs in 15 balls. However, Washington Sundar could not contribute much and was out after scoring 13 runs.
Shubhman Gill faced 50 balls and hit 4 sixes and 8 fours in his innings. He was looking in great form, but got out in the 17th over while trying to play a big shot. After this, Glenn Phillips took charge of the innings and scored 19 runs and led the team towards victory.
KKR’s start was very bad
Before this, KKR had a very bad start. Captain Ajinkya Rahane was out without opening the account. The team lost wickets continuously in the initial overs and came under pressure. Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Tim Seifert also returned to the pavilion early. In such a situation, Cameron Green and Rovman Powell tried to handle the innings and added 55 runs for the fourth wicket. Powell scored 27 runs, while Green batted brilliantly and scored an inning of 79 runs, which included seven fours and four sixes.
However, the performance of the rest of the batsmen was disappointing. Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy and other players could not play big innings, due to which the team was limited to 180 runs. Kagiso Rabada performed brilliantly in bowling for Gujarat and took 3 wickets. Mohammad Siraj also took two wickets while bowling economically. Prasidh Krishna took one wicket, while Rashid Khan and Ashok Sharma proved to be a bit expensive, but they also took important wickets.
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