Who won yesterday's IPL Match? Top highlights of last night’s GT vs RR match
Riyan Parag and Sanju Samson collaborated in a dynamic partnership, accumulating 130 runs for RR, propelling their team to a total of 196/3 against the Gujarat Titans. Parag scored the highest for RR with his terrific 76 off 48 balls while captain Samson scored an unbeaten 68 in 38 balls. GT's Vijay Shankar, however, took a brilliant catch at the boundary to dismiss Parag for 76 runs off Mohit Sharma's delivery.
Speaking of Gujarat Titans batting, skipper Shubman Gill completed 3,000 runs in the IPL match. During the run-chase of 197 runs, Gill scored 72 in 44 balls, with six fours and two sixes. In 97 IPL matches and 94 innings, Gill scored 3,045 runs at an average of 39.04 and a strike rate of over 135.
Kuldeep Sen from RR took three wickets - Sai Sudarshan, Mathew Wade, Abhinav Manohar. Coming back to the GT game, apart from Shubman Gill, the brilliant finishing by Rahul Tewatia and Rashid Khan helped GT secure a thrilling three-wicket win over RR. This is the first time the unbeaten RR lost the match this ongoing IPL season.
Though the team lost its match, they are still at the top of the points table with 8 points and have a net run rate of 0.871. After yesterday's match, the GT has now jumped from the seventh position to the sixth. The GT has so far won 3 matches out of the six matches played so far.
They now have 6 points and a net run rate of -0.637. During the post-match presentation, the GT skipper said, "We were targeting 45 in three overs and that is very much gettable, and that was the mindset. Mathematically, it is like both batters need to score 9-ball 22 runs or so and if one of the batters goes berserk, it will get over two-three balls prior." (With inputs from agencies)Milestone Alert!
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