Captain Shubman Gill cracked a blistering century whereas B Sai Sudharsan hit his maiden IPL ton as Gujarat Titans stored themselves within the play-offs race with a 35-run win over Chennai Tremendous Kings right here on Friday.
Sudharsan (103 off 51 balls) matched skipper Gill (104 off 55 deliveries) stroke for stroke as the 2 openers notched up harmful centuries to propel GT to 231/3.
The house workforce’s bowlers then stopped the defending champions for 196/8 regardless of preventing fifties from Daryl Mitchell (63) and Moeen Ali (56).
Despatched into bat, Gill and Sudharsan put up a six-hitting exhibition as they notched up a 210-run stand, the very best partnership for any wicket within the IPL this season.
The 2 additionally equalled Quinton de Kock and KL Rahul’s highest-ever IPL opening partnership.
Whereas Gill’s exceptional innings was punctuated by 9 fours and 6 maximums, Sudharsan’s maiden IPL hundred was peppered with 5 boundaries and 7 sixes.
In distinction, the CSK openers have been again within the hut with simply two runs on the board. Their finest batter this season, skipper Rituraj Gaikwad (0) was additionally despatched packing with Rashid Khan finishing a superb catch on the boundary with the defending champions reeling at 10/3.
Mitchell and Moeen steadied the ship with some counter attacking play, stitching a 109-run partnership. The 2 focused the Afghan spin duo of Rashid and Noor Ahmad.
Whereas Moeen clobbered three sixes on the trot off Noor within the eleventh over, Mitchel hit a boundary and a six within the subsequent over off Rashid to carry down the equation to 113 runs off the final 48 balls.
However veteran Mohit Sharma (3/31) struck off his very first ball, dismissing Mitchell after which got here again to take the scalps of Moeen and Shivam Dube (21).
| Gujarat Titans Inning | ||||||
| 231-3 (20 ov) CRR:11.55 | ||||||
| Batter | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |
| Sai Sudharsan | c S Dube b TU Deshpande | 103 | 51 | 5 | 7 | 201.96 |
| Shubman Gill (C) | c R Jadeja b TU Deshpande | 104 | 55 | 9 | 6 | 189.09 |
| David Miller | Not out | 15 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 150 |
| Shahrukh Khan | Not out | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.67 |
| Extras | 6 (b 0, Ib 1, w 5, nb 0, p 0) | |||||
| Whole | 231 (3 wkts, 20 Ov) | |||||
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | WD | ECO |
| Mitchell Santner | 2 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 15.5 |
| Tushar Deshpande | 4 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 2 | 8.25 |
| Shardul Thakur | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 6.25 |
| Simarjeet Singh | 3.5 | 0 | 59 | 0 | 2 | 15.39 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 2 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 14.5 |
| Daryl Mitchell | 4 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 1 |
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But, the way by which CSK defended a complete of 167 in Dharamsala towards Gujarat Titans will give their followers hope of upping the ante towards Titans, who’ve already misplaced seven within the event to date.
A win will take them to 3rd place within the standings, forward of Sunrisers Hyderbad by advantage of higher internet run-rate. Among the many three groups caught on 12 factors, solely CSK (+0.700) enjoys a constructive internet run-rate.
IPL 2024: GT vs CSK Enjoying 11
GT Enjoying 11: Shubman Gill(c), Sai Sudharsan, Shahrukh Khan, David Miller, Matthew Wade(w), Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma, Kartik Tyagi
Affect Subs: Abhinav Manohar, Sandeep Warrier, BR Sharath, Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav
CSK Enjoying 11: Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Shivam Dube, Moeen Ali, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni(w), Mitchell Santner, Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Simarjeet Singh.
Affect Subs: Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Aravelly Avanish, Sameer Rizvi, Mukesh Choudhary