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Riding on Mohammad Shami’s brilliant pace bowling, Gujarat Titans (GT) started their IPL 2022 campaign on a winning note, beating Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by five wickets at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday, March 2🃏8.
Put in to bat first, LSG managed to post a competitive after some early hiccups. The KL Rahul-led side was reduced to 29/4 inside the powerplay, but Deepak Hooda and Ayush Badoni scored half-centuries to take their team’s total above the 150-run mark.
In reply, Gujarat too kept on losing wickets at regular intervals, however in the end, Rahul Tewatia held his nerves to take his side over the finish line. Abhinav Manohar also played a crucial knock of unbeaten 15 runs off 7 balls for Hardik Pandya’s team.
Brief Scores: Lucknow Super Giants 158/6 (Deepak Hooda 55, Ayush 𒊎Badoni 54; Mohammed Shami 3-25) lost to Gujarat Titans 161/5 in 19.4 overs (Rahul Tewatia 40 not out; Dushmantha Chameera 2-22) by ಞ5 wickets.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Gujarat titans welcome to the league. Solid win💛! But♕ Lucknow super Giants kept fighting. Don’t take this team lightly even though they lost tonight.
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
A t🔯hriller was called and a thriller it is 🤷♂️! Well played could have been easier but I really think this team with a couple of tweaks could be a real threat to the others! just need momentum going and sure they will come back strong!
— Kris Srikkanth (@KrisSrikkanth)
Tewatia Ek kranti hai, saamne waali team mein ashaanti hai.
All hail Lord Tewatia.Fantastic win for Gujarat.
Great to see the debutant Indians from both teams Ay❀ush Badoni and Abhinav Mano💟har showing their skills.— Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag)
Super game of cricket! proved his class again, did well in his captaincy 𝓡debut in & showed his prowess in . Congrats to for their first ever victory in the tournament.
— MANOJ TIWARY (@tiwarymanoj)
If you lose more than 3 wickets in power pl𝓰ay, game is ওover. But credit to for fighting till the end. Good start by the captain and his team.
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
What a way to kick-off the tournament, �꧟� Great performances by the captain and the man 🙌 and a brilliant cameo by Abhinav Manohar. Mubarak ho Nehra ji 🎉
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
Absolutely wonderful performance by 😍👏
— Kendra Lust™ (@KendraLust)
Congratulations on winning your first game . Great performance by and our youngsters Ayush & Abhinav. It was a tough game, IPL promised nail b🐻iting games & that’s what is exactly happening
— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina)
Mohammad Shami is easily the world's most underrated pacer. Bhai ko halke mein maat lena..
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
Sensational Shami 🥳🥳
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Top knock under pressure from the debutant Ayush Badoni! This is going to bring a lot of youn🐻g stars into the limelight for sure, this is just the beginning 👌🏽
— Abhinav Mukund (@mukundabhinav)
Player of the Match: Mohammed Shami
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
