Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan pulled off a record-laden partnership for the opening wicket to spice up Gujarat to an enormous whole of 231 in opposition to Chennai Super Kings in a vital IPL 2024 on Friday. Both Gill and Sudharsan registered centuries at Narendra Modi Stadium in a must-win recreation for the Titans.
Gill registered his first of the season which emerged because the 100th century in IPL historical past as nicely. Sudharsan additionally made an affect with his first-ever century in IPL and have become the quickest Indian cricketer to achieve 1,000 runs within the event’s historical past in simply 25 innings.
Sudharsan and Gill pulled off a 210-run stand for the opening wicket, the joint-highest partnership record for the opening wicket and general third-highest in IPL historical past. Sudharsan grew to become solely the second Gujarat Titans’ participant after Gill to register a century.
Highest partnership in IPL for any wicket
- 229 – AB de Villiers & Virat Kohli vs GL, Bengaluru, 2016 (2nd wicket)
- 215* – AB de Villiers & Virat Kohli vs MI, Wankhede, 2015 (2nd wicket)
- 210* – Quinton de Kock & KL Rahul vs KKR, Dy Patil, 2022 (1st wicket)
- 210 – Shubman Gill & Sai Sudharsan vs CSK, Ahmedabad, 2024 (1st wicket)
- 206 – Adam Gilchrist & Shaun Marsh vs RCB, Dharamsala, 2011 (2nd wicket)
- 204* – Chris Gayle & Virat Kohli vs DC, Delhi, 2012 (2nd wicket)
Meanwhile, in-form Sudharsan was promoted to open an innings with the veteran wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha being dominated out as a consequence of an damage. Sudharsan and Gill shortly tailored to situations in powerplay and survived a few dropped catches. Gill and Sudharsan additionally broke their very own partnership record of 147 for any wicket for Gujarat.
Chennai bowlers made a wonderful comeback in dying overs with well timed wickets and conceded simply 22 runs within the final 18 balls. Tushar Deshpande dismissed each Gill and Sudharsan within the 18th over after which Sahrdul Thakur bowled a formidable grasping spell to limit Gujarat to 231/3 in 20 overs.