KKR stopped Gujarat’s victory chariot, defeated by three wickets, Rashid’s hat-trick went in vain

In the match played between Gujarat Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders, Kolkata won by three wickets. With this victory, Kolkata has also stopped the Vijay Rath of Gujarat. For the first time in the league, Gujarat played without their regular captain Hardik Pandya and had to face defeat in the same match. In the end, Rinku gave victory to Kolkata by hitting five consecutive sixes.

Such was the innings of Gujarat Giants
Veteran all-rounder Vijay Shankar scored an unbeaten 24-ball 63 as Gujarat Titans scored 204 for four in the Indian Premier League (IPL) T20 match against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) here on Sunday. Gujarat scored 45 runs in the last two overs, with Shankar hitting two fours and two sixes against Lockie Ferguson in the 19th over and three consecutive sixes against Shardul Thakur in the 20th over. Shankar hit four fours and five sixes in his unbeaten innings.

For Gujarat, Sai Sudarshan scored 53 off 38 balls while Shubman Gill contributed 39 off 31 balls. Both shared a 67-run partnership for the second wicket. Sunil Narine was the most successful bowler of KKR. He took three wickets for 33 runs in four overs. Suyyash Sharma (35 runs in four overs) got a breakthrough. Rashid Khan is leading the Gujarat team due to ill-health of regular captain Hardik Pandya. After electing to bat first, Gill and Wriddhiman Saha (17 off 17 balls) once again got Gujarat off to a steady start. Saha hit three in the first four overs while Gill hit a four. In the fifth over, Saha waved Sunil Narine’s ball in the air and N Jagadishan took a brilliant catch to break the 33-run partnership for the opening wicket.

Gill hit Varun Chakravarthy for fours in two consecutive balls in the sixth over to take the team to 54 for one in the power play. He completed his 2000 runs in IPL by hitting a four against Narine in the next over. Sai Sudarshan, playing cautiously from the other end, hit the first six of the innings against Varun in the last ball of the ninth over and the second six against Narine in the 12th over. On the third ball of the same over, Gill completed the team’s hundred runs by running two runs. However, he got caught in the next ball while trying to play a big shot and returned to the pavilion by catching Umesh Yadav. Gill hit five fours in his innings.

Coming to the crease, Abhinav Manohar (14 runs in eight balls) welcomed Umesh Yadav’s new spell with a hat-trick four in the 13th over but young leg-spinner Suyash bowled him to give KKR the third success. Sudarshan completed his second consecutive half-century in 34 balls by taking a single off Ferguson’s ball in the 17th over. However, he became Narine’s third victim in an attempt to accelerate the run rate. Vijay Shankar hit a series of fours and sixes in the next two overs to take the team’s score past 200. Shankar shared an unbroken 16-ball 51-run partnership with David Miller for the fifth wicket in which the South African batsman’s contribution was just two runs (not out).