Gujarat Titans 233 for 3 (Gill 129, Sudharsan 43, Chawla 1-45) beat Mumbai Indians 171 (Suryakumar 61, Varma 43, Mohit 5-10) by 62 runs
Shubman Gill’s majestic 129 off 60 balls powered Gujarat Titans into the ultimate of IPL 2023 with a 62-run win over Mumbai Indians in Ahmedabad. Titans will face Chennai Tremendous Kings at this very floor on Sunday in a bid to defend their title.Earlier, rain delayed the match by half-hour. With the climate round, Rohit Sharma opted to chase after profitable the toss. Titans did not have a fantastic begin, however Gill’s knock lifted them to a mammoth 233 for 3. This was Gill’s third hundred in 4 matches; solely Virat Kohli and Jos Buttler (4 every) have scored extra in a single version of the IPL. The knock took Gill’s run tally to 851. As soon as once more, solely Kohli (973 in 2016) and Buttler (863 in 2022) have had extra productive seasons.No group had chased down this many within the IPL. After which Mumbai misplaced two early wickets. However they did not go down with out a combat. Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Varma took them to 72 in six overs earlier than Rashid Khan castled the latter. From there on, Suryakumar saved them within the contest nearly singlehandedly together with his 61 off 38. However Mohit Sharma uprooted his leg stump when the batter missed a scoop. Within the subsequent over, Rashid trapped Tim David lbw to finish Mumbai’s hopes.
Mohit, who hadn’t bowled until the 14th over, used his slower balls to good impact and completed with figures of two.2-0-10-5.
Unstoppable Gill
Regardless of scoring no less than one 4 in each over from the second to fifth, Titans reached solely 38 for no loss after 5. Gill then latched onto Chris Jordan within the final over of the powerplay. The second authorized supply of the over was too quick and sat up on this sticky pitch. Gill waited for it and pulled it with disdain over deep sq. leg. The subsequent one was barely quick exterior off. Gill as soon as once more confirmed no mercy and reduce it ferociously to the duvet boundary.
Luck too was on Gill’s facet. In the identical Jordan over, he punched one uppishly to the precise of mid-on the place Tim David dived, received each fingers to the ball however could not maintain on to it. He was on 30 at that time.
Titans completed the powerplay on 50 for no loss however…
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