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IPL 2023: Gujarat Titans change into first crew to qualify for playoffs
Regardless of a late comeback by SRH’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar (5/30), GT scored 188/9 as Shubman Gill slammed 101 off simply 58 balls — his maiden IPL century. GT then restricted SRH to 154/9.
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“Very happy with the boys, two in two (making it to the play-offs twice in a row). The boys put their palms up and in difficult conditions and we rightly deserve the playoff spot,” Hardik stated on the post-match presentation.
“There can be expectations and for me it was essential to focus throughout the group. We ticked a number of good containers, we made a number of errors however we have been all the time there within the recreation and tried to remain constant,” he added.
After Gill and Sai Sudharsan (47 off 36 balls) laid the inspiration for a robust whole with their 147-run partnership for the second wicket — which was nevertheless wasted by the opposite batters — the likes of Mohammed Shami (4/21) and Mohit Sharma (4/28) shone with the ball to chop quick SRH’s marketing campaign.
Impressed with their effort, Hardik referred to as himself a bowler’s captain.
“Bowlers are very near my coronary heart. Generally batters take a number of credit score, for me I’ll all the time be a bowler’s captain and guarantee they get due credit score that they very a lot deserve,” Hardik stated.
Recalling his IPL debut towards SRH, man-of-the-match Gill stated it has come a full circle for him.
“My IPL debut was towards SRH, now I’ve my IPL hundred towards them. Fairly happy. It is come a full circle. Hopefully I will get extra a whole bunch this season,” Gill stated.
“I am not the type of one who dwells an excessive amount of on my final innings. The main focus is on what’s wanted in the mean time. Probably the most satisfying second was to hit Abhishek (Sharma) for a six as a result of he’s my childhood pal.”
Out of reckoning for a spot within the play-offs, SRH skipper Aiden Markram stated his crew will play for satisfaction in its remaining two video games.
“A number of satisfaction for us to play for. We’ll attempt to give some alternatives if we’re allowed to. It’s going to be good to complete off the event in good spirits however sadly, we have not been ok within the event this yr,” Markram stated.
“When a crew is one down within the backend, it may well go both of the 2 methods. It was essential to interrupt the partnership and Bhuvi (Bhuvneshwar) did that for us. He is been distinctive for us and Nattu (T Natarajan) as nicely.”
(With PTI inputs)
