Gujarat Titans have made a strong comeback after losing 2 consecutive matches. Gujarat Titans, captained by Shubman Gill, defeated Chennai Super Kings by 8 wickets in a one-sided match in their own home. With this, Titans registered their fourth win this season. The star of this victory was the team's fast bowler Kagiso Rabada, whose deadly spell restricted Chennai to just 158 runs. After this, on the basis of Sai Sudarshan's strong half-century innings, GT achieved the target in just 17 overs.
This match was played completely in MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. Gujarat Named after. Where just a day before, in the matches played in Delhi and Jaipur, the bowlers were badly beaten and big scores were made. But Gujarat's fast bowlers wreaked havoc on Chennai's spin-friendly pitch. It was started by Kagiso Rabada (3/25), who dismissed Sanju Samson and Urvil Patel in the fourth over itself.
Along with Rabada, Mohammed Siraj (1/23), Jason Holder and Manav Suthar (1/22) also kept the pressure on the Chennai bowlers. The result was that the team lost 4 wickets for just 37 runs and 50 runs of CSK's innings were completed in the 12th over. However, despite this, Chennai made a strong comeback by scoring 158 runs and adding 107 runs in the next 8 overs. The reason for this was captain Ruturaj Gaikwad, who scored an inning of 74 runs in 60 balls, which was his first half-century this season. Apart from him, Jamie Overton gave momentum to the team by scoring 18 runs in 6 balls.
After the bowlers, it was the turn of Gujarat's batsmen and once again the opening pair of captain Shubman Gill-Sai Sudarshan made the task easy for them. Both of them gave a strong start to Gujarat by making a quick partnership of 58 runs in just 6.2 overs. After this, the magic of Sudarshan was seen, who crossed the 50 mark for the second consecutive match. Along with Jos Buttler, he brought the team closer to victory. However, he missed his second consecutive century and was out after scoring 87 runs. But Butler (39 not out) led the team to victory in 16.4 overs.
