Based on the brilliant bowling, Gujarat Titans won the sixth match in the 18th season of the IPL. The team beat the Kolkata Knight Riders by 39 runs, with the Titans points reached the top in the table. Famous Krishna and Rashid Khan took 2-2 wickets. Captain Shubhman Gill scored 90 runs.
Kolkata chose to bowl first at Eden Gardens Stadium. Gujarat scored 198 runs after losing 3 wickets. Sai Sudarshan scored 4 and Jose Butler scored 41. In reply, KKR was able to score only 159 runs by losing 8 wickets. Captain Ajinkya Rahane scored 50 runs.
Match analysis in 5 points …
1. The Match of Player
Gujarat Titans, who were batting first after losing the toss, started a strong start of captain Shubhman Gill. He shared a century with Sai Sudarshan. After Sudarshan's wicket, Gill scored 90 and broke the team to a big score. He hit 10 fours and 3 sixes.
2. The hero of the win
- Rashid Khan: Rashid came to bowl in the powerplay and sent Sunil Narayan to the pavilion in the first over. He then took a big wicket of Andre Russell in the middle overs.
- Famous Krishna: Famous bowled brilliantly in death overs. He sent Ramandeep Singh and Moin Ali a pavilion in a single over.
- Sai Sudarshan: Sudarshan hit his fifth fifty of the season, coming to open with Shubhman. He also made a century partnership with Captain Shubhman.
3. Fighter of the Match
Kolkata Knight Riders captain Ajinkya Rahane scored a fifty while chasing a 199 -run target. He took over the team in the powerplay, but he was dismissed for 50 runs. After his wicket, the team could not recover and lost the match.
4. Turning points
Kolkata needed 85 runs in the last 5 overs. Rashid Khan came here to bowl, gave only 5 runs in the over and sent Andre Russell to the pavilion. Krishna threw the next over, he also gave only 5 runs and took 2 wickets. KKR's batting could not survive against the famous and Rashid bowling. Both took 2-2 wickets. Shubhman and Sudarshan's opening partnership also proved to be a turning point.
5. Sudarshan got an orange cap
Gujarat's Sai Sudarshan is the highest scorer of the tournament with 417 runs. Gujarat's famous Krishna is the highest wicket -taker of the tournament with 16 wickets. Winning the sixth match in the 18th season, Titans reached the top of the point table. KKR lost the fifth match, the team is still 7th. The team has only won 3 matches.
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