Prasidh Krishna’s middle-over mastery with the ball and a workman-like fifty from Sai Sudharsan arrange Gujarat Titans’ 36-run win towards Mumbai Indians on the Narendra Modi Stadium right here on Saturday.
Prasidh different his tempo and size adeptly on an up-and-down floor to finish with figures of two/18 to strangle MI’s chase of Titans’ 197-run goal. His efforts had been preceded by an incisive opening spell from Mohammed Siraj, who helped the Titans acquire momentum early within the chase.
Siraj rattled the stumps twice within the PowerPlay, breaching Rohit Sharma’s and Ryan Rickelton’s defence with scrambled-seam deliveries.
Tilak Varma and Suryakumar Yadav stored MI’s chase afloat with a sprinkling of boundaries. The duo persistently targetted the leg-side fence as they pulled, flicked and swept to reign within the required charge.
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However the ploy ultimately triggered Tilak’s downfall as he sliced an outside-off slower ball from Prasidh to lengthy on. Suryakumar too was snaffled by a Prasidh off-cutter because the Titans roared forward within the recreation witnessed by a near-capacity crowd.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya’s dismissal by Kagiso Rabada within the seventeenth over successfully killed the competition because the Titans quickly stitched up their fourth consecutive dwelling win over its opponent.
Earlier, after being inserted, Shubman Gill and Sudharsan had been watchful to start out off, with the Titans openers scampering in simply 31 runs within the first 4 overs.
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The introduction of spin, within the type of Mujeeb Ur Rahman, marked a change in method from the house batters. The Afghanistan tweaker conceded three boundaries in his first over, which included a thumping straight six by Sudharsan. Gill adopted it up by taking down Deepak Chahar, to elevate his staff to its third-highest PowerPlay rating (66).
However, the away aspect crept again into the sport via a canny spell from Hardik, who utilised his array of slower balls to use the breaks on Titans’ innings.
Sudharsan, although, pushed Titans ahead as Jos Buttler chipped in with a useful knock. The house aspect was additionally aided by a wasteful MI aspect, which gave away a few boundaries via misfields whereas additionally conceding 14 wides.
Just a few useful boundaries from the decrease center order allowed Titans to land near the 200-run mark, which proved adequate ultimately.