Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Gujarat Titans Score: Batting first, Gujarat Titans have scored 205 runs. Sai Sudarshan played a record-breaking century of 100 runs, this was the third century of his IPL career. RCB also counterattacked in the death overs, but Jason Holder’s innings played at a strike rate of 230 took Gujarat’s score beyond 200.
In this match being played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, RCB had invited Gujarat to bat first after winning the toss. Sai Sudarshan and Shubman Gill gave a great start to Gujarat by making an opening partnership of 128 runs. This was the highest partnership for any wicket by Gujarat Titans batsmen against RCB.
Sai Sudarshan scored 100 runs in 58 balls. During this time, he also made the record of completing 2000 runs fastest. He broke Chris Gayle’s record by completing 2 thousand runs in 47 innings. At one time Gujarat had scored 170 runs in 16 overs. It seemed that Gujarat would score at least 220-225 runs. Meanwhile, Shubman Gill contributed 32 runs and Jos Buttler contributed 24 runs.
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Jason Holder created havoc
By the 19th over, Gujarat team had scored 187 runs. Since only 17 runs were scored in the last 3 overs, it seemed difficult for Gujarat to cross 200 in the last over. But Jason Holder scored 18 runs including 2 sixes and a four in the last over and took his team beyond 200. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood and Suyyash Sharma took one wicket each for Royal Challengers Bangalore.
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