Rashid Khan took 4-33 and Shubman Gill scored 84 runs to steer the Gujarat Titans to a convincing 77-run win towards the Rajasthan Royals on Saturday.
Rashid Khan took 4-33 and Shubman Gill scored 84 runs to steer the Gujarat Titans to a convincing 77-run win towards the Rajasthan Royals on Saturday.
Kagiso Rabada additionally took two wickets and Jason Holder polished off the tail with three as Gujarat dismissed Rajasthan for 152 runs, after wonder-kid Vaibhav Sooryavanshi scored 36 off 16 balls.
Earlier, skipper Shubman Gill hit 84 off 44 deliveries and Sai Sudharsan made 55 as Gujarat notched up 229-4 batting first.
Easy sixes 🤩
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Rajasthan’s reply began in a quickfire method as Sooryavanshi hit three fours and three sixes. After his dismissal, the hosts folded towards Khan’s guile.
Gujarat climbed to second within the factors’ desk with their sixth win in 11 video games. Rajasthan slipped to fifth after their fifth loss and their web run-rate took an enormous hit.
Gill’s fourth half-century of the season got here off 30 balls, and he placed on 118 runs with Sudharsan for the primary wicket.
That opening stand laid the bottom for a tall whole. Gujarat scored 82-0 within the powerplay, with Gill and Sudharsan hitting 5 sixes between them.
It was a fourth half-century of the season for Sudharsan. He had additionally made a century towards Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Gujarat’s 19-year-old wrist spinner Yash Raj Punja bought the breakthrough as Sudharan was caught within the eleventh over.
Gill added 32 with Jos Buttler (13) and one other 35 off 18 balls with Washington Sundar, earlier than he was caught within the seventeenth over.
Sundar’s cameo – 37 not out off 20 balls – together with three sixes, pushed Gujarat previous 200. Rahul Tewatia (14 not out) utilized the ending touches with two sixes in 4 balls.
“They batted very well,” mentioned Rajasthan captain Yashasvi Jaiswal. “There are days once you can’t bowl the way you need to.”
In reply, Sooryavanshi put Rajasthan on the right track initially with 38 runs off solely 17 balls.
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The turning level got here within the third over when the 15-year-old holed out off Mohammed Siraj.
Rabada then struck twice in successive overs. He had stand-in skipper Yashasvi Jaiswal caught for 3, after which eliminated Shimron Hetmyer for six.
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Dhurv Jurel responded with 24 off 10 balls, hitting three sixes in Siraj’s third over. However Khan bowled him within the eighth over to start out Rajasthan’s collapse. Two balls later, Khan bowled Donovan Ferreira for 4.
The Afghanistan veteran spinner was almost unplayable, operating via the center order, as Rajasthan slipped to 136-7 in 13.5 overs.
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4⃣th consecutive win for @gujarat_titans as they transfer to no.2⃣ within the Factors Desk 🔢
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Khan broke a 24-run partnership between Ravindra Jadeja (38) and Shubham Dubey (15), dismissing each batters in successive overs.
“I attempted to hit the proper lengths on this sport. Modern-day cricket requires many variations,” mentioned Khan.
He has 15 wickets thus far this season after taking solely 9 in 15 matches final season and 10 the 12 months earlier than.
“The final couple seasons have been uncommon for me,” he mentioned. “I had solely two months to get again to the sphere after my harm. I have been extra constant this season.”
Holder completed the job with a fast three wickets for 12 runs throughout 15 deliveries. It was Gujarat’s largest win (by runs) within the IPL.
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