Rahul’s inning of 97 runs was in vain, Gujarat tasted victory, got its first defeat.

New Delhi. The end of this match played between Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals was no less than a film thriller. Delhi needed 2 runs to win on the last ball of the last over of the innings and David Miller was present on strike. Prasidh Krishna showed his cleverness in moments of pressure and bowled a slow short pitched ball. Miller tried to hit a pull shot on this but he missed it completely. The ball went into the gloves of wicketkeeper Jos Buttler, but in an effort to save the match, Miller and Kuldeep Yadav ran for runs. Butler, without making any mistake, quickly ran out Kuldeep Yadav by throwing at the strike end.

The real drama on the field started when the umpire checked the height of the ball. Had it been declared a ‘no ball’ or ‘wide’, Delhi would have had a chance to make a comeback. The third umpire watched the replays and found that when the ball passed Miller, he was standing on his toes and the ball had passed under his head. Ultimately the umpire declared it a valid ball and with this Gujarat Titans won this breath-taking match by just 1 run. Despite diving, Kuldeep Yadav remained away from the crease and his efforts could not help Delhi cross the threshold of victory.

Chasing the target of 211 runs, Delhi Capitals got a good start from the opening pair of KL Rahul and Pathum Nissanka. Both of them made a partnership of 76 runs for the first wicket. Prasidh Krishna gave the first blow to Delhi by dismissing Nissanka. Nissanka was out after scoring 41 runs. After this, Delhi lost the wickets of Nitish Rana and Sameer Rizvi in ​​two balls back to back. Rashid Khan dismissed both of them in two balls. Akshar Patel was out after scoring 2 runs. Rashid made Akshar his third victim. Siraj dismissed KL Rahul. Rahul played a brilliant inning of 92 runs.

With the help of a century partnership for the third wicket between captain Shubman Gill and Washington Sundar, Gujarat Titans scored 210 runs for four wickets. Delhi captain Axar Patel won the toss and decided to bowl in view of the rain and clouds. Gill, who returned after recovering from muscle cramps, scored 70 runs in 45 balls with the help of four fours and five sixes, while Jos Buttler scored 52 runs in 27 balls and Sundar scored 55 runs in 32 balls. For Delhi, Lungi Ngidi took one wicket for 32 runs in four overs. Fast bowler Mukesh Kumar got two wickets but he gave away 55 runs in four overs. Indian team’s spinner Kuldeep Yadav took one wicket for 42 runs in four overs.

Sai Sudarshan, a reliable opener for Gujarat, made a good start and hit a straight four to Mukesh Kumar on the very first ball. He expressed his attitude by hitting Ngidi for a four in the cover on the first ball of the next over. However, Sudarshan was bowled by Mukesh in the next over and Gujarat lost the first wicket on the score of 19. After this, Butler, giving a glimpse of his old form, continued to take Gujarat’s pace forward with his attractive strokes. He welcomed Mukesh by hitting a six in straight. Delhi captain Akshar Patel himself came to bowl in the fourth over but Butler hit a four on the first ball and sent the next ball across the long-on boundary.

Akshar scored 13 runs in his first over. Butler gave a lot of advice to Mukesh in the fifth over and scored 23 runs with three sixes and one four. With sixes in straight and long on, he completed Gujarat’s fifty runs in 4.2 overs. Gujarat’s score in six overs of powerplay was 68 runs for one wicket. Gill, who was watching Buttler’s aggressive batting from the other end, would not have regretted not getting a strike. This England batsman completed his half-century by taking one run off Axar’s ball which included three fours and five sixes. Seeing this partnership becoming dangerous, Akshar handed the ball to his most promising bowler Kuldeep Yadav and he did not disappoint the captain. Butler (52 runs in 27 balls) dodged and got bowled by the wrist spinner’s low ball. Gujarat’s batsmen could score only 33 runs between the seventh and tenth overs and also lost one wicket. After ten overs, Gujarat’s score was 101 runs for two wickets.

The 12th over also proved to be very costly for Delhi in which 23 runs were scored. First Washington Sundar hit a six to Vipraj Nigam over deep midwicket. After this, Gill sent the ball across the boundary over the bowler’s head. Gill completed his half-century by hitting Ngidi for four consecutive fours in deep square leg in the 15th over. Kuldeep again came to bowl in the 17th over, who bowled the first ball short outside the leg stump, on which Gill played a tremendous pull shot and hit a six over short fine leg and hit his fifth six of the innings on the fourth ball. Meanwhile, Gill and Sundar completed a hundred-run partnership in 56 balls for the third wicket. Angidi ended Gill’s innings when Gujarat’s score was 183 runs. He was caught by Nitish Rana in mid-off on a full length ball going outside the off stump. Sundar completed his first half-century in the IPL by hitting Natarajan for a six over square leg in the 19th over. But in the last over, he returned after catching Rana on Mukesh’s ball. He hit six fours and two sixes in his 31-ball innings.