New Delhi. It rained during the day at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, and in the evening, Shubman Gill, who was in Prachanda form, on the Mumbai bowlers. In Qualifier-2, Shubman scored an innings of 129 runs in just 60 balls, due to which Gujarat Titans defeated Mumbai by 62 runs. With this victory, Gujarat will play the final with Chennai on Sunday in Ahmedabad itself.
Batting first after losing the toss, Gujarat made a huge score of 233 runs in 20 overs. Shubman Gill and Saha added 50 runs while batting fast in the first powerplay. Shubman Gill completed his third IPL century off 49 balls. Gill hit 7 fours and 10 sixes during his innings. Sai Sudarshan played an inning of 43 runs. Hardik scored a quick 28 runs.
Mumbai’s bad start
Chasing the target, Mumbai got off to a bad start. Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion after scoring 8 runs and Nehal Wadhera scored 4 runs. Due to injury, Vishnu Vinod came to bat in place of Ishaan Kishan, but he too could not do much. Became the victim of Mohit Sharma after scoring five runs. However, Surya and Tilak fought for Mumbai.
Tilak and Surya fought
Playing fast, Tilak scored an inning of 43 runs off 14 balls. At the same time, Surya scored 61 runs off 38 balls. With the dismissals of Tilak and Surya, the match slipped out of Mumbai’s reach. Cameron Green made 30. After this, no batsman could touch the double figure. Mumbai got all out after scoring 171 runs in 18.3 overs. Mohit Sharma took five wickets for 10 runs. Shami and Rashid got two wickets each. Joshua Little got one wicket.
Gill got three lives
Mumbai gave life three times to Gill, who scored two consecutive centuries in two matches in IPL. Firstly, in the last over of the powerplay, Tim David dropped his catch off Chris Jordan. Then Gill was batting on 31 runs. After this, Piyush Chawla trapped Gill in his spin in the eighth over, but Ishaan Kishan missed the chance to stump. After this, Gill hit the very next ball at midwicket, but Tilak Verma could not understand the ball properly and the catch was missed by his hands.