Wriddhiman Saha’s unbeaten 67 and bowlers’ top-class effort powered Gujarat Titans (GT) to a compre⛄hensive seven-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in Mumbai on Sunday. With this victory, the Hardik Pandya-led side has secured a top-two 🃏finish in the team standings, providing them with two opportunities to reach the IPL 2022 final.
Asked to bowl first, GT seamers and spinners together put up a clinical show to restrict CSK to a below-par total of 133-5 despite a fine half-century from Ruturaj Gaikwad.
In reply, opening batter Saha hit eight fours and a six during his 57-ball knock, anchoring the chase to get Gujarat over the finish line in 19.1ౠ overs.
Brief scores: Chennai Supers Kings 133-5 in 20 overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 53; Mohammed Shami 2/19) lost to Gujarat Titans 137-3 in 19.1 ov🌠ers💦 (Wriddhiman Saha 67 not out) by seven wickets.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Another good win for ! Top bowling as a unit and made sureꦺ the win was ne🌟ver out of reach!
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
Well done Saha 👏
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Experienced Saha showed his class again. Congratulations and on reaching ♓top in the table.
— Vinay Kumar R (@Vinay_Kumar_R)
👏🏏 CLASS APART🧜! Wriddhi✱man Saha brings up his 1️⃣1️⃣th fifty in the IPL with a fine knock. This is his third fifty of the season!
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— The Bharat Army (@thebharatarmy)
Near-perfect win against mighty CSK 🙌👏
Well done boys 💪
— Gujarat Titans (@gujarat_titans)
Matheesha Pathirana gets his maiden IPL w✤icket i♏n the first ball of his IPL career.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Matheesha Pathirana might have gone for a few runs after that wicket, but he can take heart from history. Another pace bowler, young and with an unorthodox action, began his IPL ca🏅reer with 1 for 12 in his first over, way back in 2013. His name was Jasprit Bumrah.
— Saurabh Somani (@saurabh_42)
2⃣/2⃣4⃣ -Slinging it right from the very first ball! ꦗ 🦁💛
— Chennai Super Kings (@ChennaiIPL)
1⃣0⃣th win of the 2022 for ! 👏 👏
The -l𝄹ed unit beat by 7 wickets to ﷽pocket two more points. 👌 👌
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)