Hitting 13 exquisitely-timed boundaries, together with two elegant straight drives, and a six in his 101 off 58 balls, Gill guided the defending champions to 188/9 regardless of a wobble within the dying overs.
The dominance offered by Gill was sustained by new-ball bowlers Mohammed Shami (4/21) and Yash Dayal when the Titans bowled. Collectively they took 4 wickets within the powerplay to cut back SRH to 45/Four earlier than Mohit Sharma (4/28) bought into the act and took three wickets in his first spell.
Solely a 68-run partnership between Heinrich Klaasen and Bhuvneshwar staved off an excellent greater defeat. SRH had been restricted to 154/9, shedding by 43 runs.
The defeat ended their probability of qualifying for the playoffs whereas Titans turned the primary group to qualify this season and make sure a top-two slot, with 18 factors from 13 matches.
Shami dismissed Anmolpreet Singh, Rahul Tripathi and captain Aiden Markram whereas Dayal, taking part in his first match after the hiding he bought in opposition to Rinku Singh, had Abhishek Sharma caught behind.
Sharma then bought into the act together with his good-length deliveries to cut back the guests to 59/7. He then returned to have Klaasen, who made 64 (44b; 4x4m 3×6) caught at lengthy off by David Miller.
Earlier, after Markram gained the toss and inserted Titans in, Bhuvneshwar (5/30) had Wriddhiman Saha caught with out scoring at second slip by Abhishek Sharma. From there on, Gill and Sai Sudharsan, changing the injured Vijay Shankar, placed on an exhibition of boundary hitting.
Sudharsan started the onslaught with a punched cowl drive off left-arm pacer Jansen’s bowling. Bhuvneshwar’s subsequent over was greeted by Gill with a elegant straight drive, whereas, on the different finish, Sudharsan helped himself to 2 boundaries.
The Afghan left-arm pacer was smashed for 18 runs, which included 4 boundaries, in his first over because the Titans raced to 65 within the powerplay. The southpaw’s scoop over high quality leg off Jansen’s bowling within the 11th over was the primary six of the match whereas Gill pulled a protracted hop from Sharma over deep midwicket within the subsequent over for his solely most.
The 147-run partnership was damaged by Jansen.
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