When Rishab Pant, the Lucknow Super Giants captain won the toss at his home venue and asked Gujarat Titans to bat first in an afternoon game, the noisy com box was critical of the decision taken by the home captain to bowl first, and the first wicket partnership of 120 runs in 12.5 overs between Sai Sudharshan along with his captainw Shubman Gill, made us think this com box seems prophetic in their analysis.
The tide just turned upside down. Shubman Gill with a well compiled 60 lofted Shadul Thakur and was caught brilliantly by Aiden Markram at long off, thereby the much needed breakthrough came LSG’s way with the score on 120.
Some state one gets two, and we have seen this happen many times. Wonder if it’s a superstitious statement, but Sai Sudharshan batting on 56 without a flaw departs soon after for 56 with LSG breathing a sigh of relief to see the back of this prolific run.machine when he mistimed ae lofted drive to give the smiling Ravi Bishnoy his first scalp with Nicholas Pooran catching a high ball at short extra cover to facilitate Lucknow Super Giants with their second wicket with the score on 127 thus opening the gate for their bowlers to control the flashy run rate Gujrat Titans were building..
Washington Sundar, batting ahead Shefane Rutherford, departs soon after , bowled by Ravi Bishnoy, and Gujarat Titans suddenly blew it up from 120 for no loss to 127 for 3 wickets.
Rutherford made a quickfire 22 , but the rest of the batters struggled to get to a score of 180 for 6 wickets in their alloted 20 overs.
Shadul Thakur 2 for 24 , and Bishnoy 2 for 36 made Gujarat Titans toil for runs.
181 was definitely a target well within the home team’s reach as Aiden Markram and Nicholas Pooran thumped the Gujaratd Titans bowling with Markram making 56 and Nicholas Pooran stamping his authority with 61 off 34 deliveries with 1 boundary and 7 massive sixes.
Ravisrinivasan Sai leaked 35 runs in 1.3 overs. Washington Sundar economical 1 for 28 , Rashid Khan struggling yet again with 1 for 35 by his standards, whilst Prasad Krishna was most impressive with 2 for 26.
Lucknow Super Giants enjoyed a 6 wicket win with 3 balls to spare.
LSG is now 3rd in the points table whilst Gujarat Titans are ahead of them in second place.
