In a spin it to win it 2024 Indian Premier League contest on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Worldwide Cricket Stadium, Gujarat Titans survived a scare to beat the Punjab Kings by seven wickets, in Chandigarh on Sunday.
Requested to subject first, the Shubman Gill led Titans managed to bowl out the Kings for a modest 142 of their alloted quota of 20 overs.
It was their spin troika of Rashid Khan (1-15), Noor Ahmad (2-22) and Sai Kishore (4-33), who not solely dried up the run stream but additionally struck at common intervals to maintain the Punjab Kings batters in verify.
Later within the day, the Gujarat Titans appeared to be cruising in direction of a snug win earlier than Liam Livingstone (2-19) pulled the Kings again into the match.
Rahul Tewatia (36*), nevertheless, did what he does the most effective to pocket two factors for the Titans with 5 balls to spare.
Turning level of the match
On the finish of the sixteenth over within the chase, the Gujarat Titans required 38 to win off 24 deliveries. Tewatia had by then confronted 5 balls for 5 runs, whereas Shahrukh Khan had simply entered the crease.
Punjab Kings skipper Sam Curran determined it was time to gamble and threw the ball to left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar with the soutpaw Tewatia on strike.
A loud leg earlier than wicket attraction from the Kings was turned down by each the onfield umpire in addition to the third umpire Brar’s first supply. Tewatia was fortunate to outlive as a result of the ball pitched outdoors the leg stump, however it was all he wanted within the night.
He pocketed two boundaries off the over – first a wonderfully performed reversweep to the backward squareleg boundary after which a standard sweep to the positive leg area. He blended it up with a few twos as Brar leaked 13 off the over. The momentum swung decisively in favour of Gujarat Titans at this second.
Kagiso Rabada, who had till then had an excellent outing on this season, was not spared both within the subsequent over. Tewatia discovered three boundaries, whereas Shahrukh (8) hit a six because the South African pacer leaked 20 runs from the over – his most costly over of the season.
On the finish of the 18th over, the Titans required simply 5 extra to win.
The Discipline’s participant of the match
There have been a number of noteworthy performances within the match, however it’s arduous to look previous R Sai Kishore as The Discipline’s participant of the match, due to his splendid spell within the first innings.
The left-arm spinner was the ultimate of the three tweakers to be launched into the assault by Gill, however he, by far, did essentially the most harm.
Sai Kishore’s first sufferer was Jitesh Sharma. The wicketkeeper had simply hit him for a six down the bottom, earlier than he tried to do it once more solely to overlook it by a protracted margin and have his stumps disturbed.
The in-form Ashutosh Sharma was the subsequent to fall, caught at deep cowl whereas on the lookout for a giant shot. Sai Kishore accounted for Shashank Sharma subsequent, taking a catch off his personal bowling. He thus eliminated two of Punjab Kings’ finest batters this season inside a span of two overs.
The 27-year-old from Tamil Nadu then noticed David Miller drop Brar off his bowling the batter smashed him for a six and a 4, however finally emerged outfoxed him to complete with 4 wickets.
‘Making an attempt to present 120%’
Sai Kishore was additionally named the official Participant of the Match for his spell within the contest. Regardless of having lacked recreation time and spending a serious portion of the season to this point on the bench, the spinner gave a great account of himself, posing a cheerful drawback for the Titans administration after they take the sphere subsequent.
“I used to be enjoying after 20-25 days, so simply wished to go there, take pleasure in myself and provides my every part. I used to be simply making an attempt to present my 120% for the group. My intuition informed me that I ought to sluggish it down [on bowling slow], I felt sluggish and into the wicket was the way in which to go on this floor.”
— R Sai Kishore
Factors Desk
| Place | Group | Performed | Gained | Misplaced | NRR | Factors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RR | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0.677 | 12 |
| 2 | KKR | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1.206 | 10 |
| 3 | SRH | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0.914 | 10 |
| 4 | CSK | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0.529 | 8 |
| 5 | LSG | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0.123 | 8 |
| 6 | GT | 8 | 4 | 4 | -1.055 | 8 |
| 7 | MI | 7 | 3 | 4 | -0.133 | 6 |
| 8 | DC | 8 | 3 | 5 | -0.477 | 6 |
| 9 | PBKS | 8 | 2 | 6 | -0.292 | 4 |
| 10 | RCB | 8 | 1 | 7 | -1.046 | 2 |