Gujarat Titans in run-chase: On Sunday (May 21), the last league match of IPL 2023 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans. For Faf du Plessis’s team, this match was no less than do or die. Actually, if RCB had won this match, it would have directly reached the playoffs, but Gujarat defeated Bangalore by 6 wickets in this match. Along with this, the dream of winning the RCB title for the 16th consecutive year was also shattered.
After playing first in this match, RCB had scored 197 runs in 20 overs thanks to Virat Kohli’s strong century. In response, Shubman Gill scored a century for Gujarat Titans and won his team five balls before the match. Even though Gill gave victory to Gujarat by hitting the first ball of the 20th over for a six, but do you know that even before the start of the match, RCB’s defeat was decided.
In fact, in this do or die match, Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis lost the toss. Gujarat captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl first. With this, writing of RCB’s defeat had started. We are saying this because Gujarat Titans have no match in the run chase.
from IPL 2022 Indian Premier League The record of Gujarat Titans, who made their debut in the run chase, has been excellent. The team has won 13 out of 17 matches while chasing runs since last year. These figures testify that RCB’s defeat was also decided as soon as they lost the toss.
The condition of the match was like this
RCB had scored 197 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs after playing first. Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 101 runs in 61 balls for Bangalore. During this, 13 fours and a six came out of his bat. At the same time, Faf scored 28 runs in 19 balls. Apart from this, Glenn Maxwell 11, Dinesh Karthik 00 and Mahipal Lomror were dismissed after scoring one run. After this, Shubman Gill played a brilliant match-winning inning of 104 runs in 52 balls for Gujarat to chase the target of 198 runs. During this, Gill hit 5 fours and 8 sixes. Apart from this, Vijay Shankar played an important inning of 53 runs in 35 balls. Shankar hit seven fours and 2 sixes.
