Gujarat Titans (GT) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) turned out to be the winners within the two clashes that befell within the Saturday double-header of Indian Premier League (IPL 2023). Co-incidentally, each had been away wins. In the primary sport , GT beat hosts Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) a Eden Gardens by seven wickets whereas SRH made brief work of Delhi Capitals (DC) at Feroz Shah Kotla floor. GT, consequently have jumped to the highest of factors desk whereas there’s a slight enchancment for SRH within the standings as they registered their third win of the season.Â
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Titans present Ashish Nehra a win on his birthday
Gujarat Titans coach Ashish Nehra turned 44 on Saturday and his workforce gave him an ideal birthday present by going to the highest of the desk in IPL 2023. The proven fact that the win was hard-earned and located two new match winners in Vijay Shankar and David Miller should have made Nehra even happier. After limiting KKR to 179 for 7 in 20 overs, courtesy three wickets from Mohammed Shami, GT chased down the goal in 17.5 overs with 7 wickets in hand.Â
A convincing win _ An ideal present for Nehraji’s birthday! _
Our Titans capped off an outstanding day with a heartwarming celebration! _#AavaDe #KKRvGT pic.twitter.com/vMtEwDXMu5
— Gujarat Titans (@gujarat_titans) April 29, 2023
After Wriddhiman Saha (10) went again early, Shubman Gill performed a gritty knock of 49 runs to regular the ship. Hardik anchored the innings with a 20-ball 26. But when each fell, GT required a robust partnership to ge them going because the goal was nonetheless far. Shankar and Miller them acquired collectively to sew a match-winning stand for the fourth wicket and guided the workforce to a superb win.Â
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SRH beat DC in return fixture
The possibilities of Delhi Capitals qualifying for the playoffs obtained one other blow with the loss in opposition to SRH. The DC camp had a lot to consider on the finish of the season because the facet displayed one other little bit of poor cricket. Winning the toss, SRH posted 197 for six in 20 overs all because of 67 by Abhishek Sharma. The maiden IPL fifty from Heinrich Klaasen helped the trigger too.Â
DC by no means seemed comfy within the chase. They saved dropping wickets at common interval. Mitchell Marsh’s 39-ball 63 went in useless as DC fell brief by 9 runs in the long run.Â
IPL 2023 Updated Points Table
As advised earlier, Titans at the moment are on the prime of the factors desk with 6 wins from 8 video games. They have a wholesome strike price of 0.638 and Rajasthan Royals (RR) are behind them with 5 wins from similar variety of matches. Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) are third and Chennai Super Kings are fourth within the standings. Sunrisers have gained one spot after win over DC and sit at eighth spot within the desk now.Â
Orange Cap and Purple Cap leaders: RCB’s Faf du Plessis and Mohammed Siraj continued to steer the charts in Orange Cap and Purple cap lists respectively. Du Plessis 422 runs in 8 matches whereas Siraj has picked 14 wickets in similar variety of video games.
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