Gujarat Titans bowler Sai Kishore celebrates after taking a wicket through the Indian Premier League 2024 match towards Punjab Kings in Mullanpur on April 21, 2024.
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Gujarat Titans spinners, led by R Sai Kishore, foxed an ill-equipped Punjab Kings batting line-up to dismiss the hosts for 142 within the Indian Premier League in Mullanpur on April 21.
Punjab Kings, who’ve been among the many worst performing batting groups within the powerplay this season, made brisk begin to attain 45 for no loss in 5 overs.
However, their innings went downhill thereafter because the spin trio of Sai Kishore (4/33), Rashid Khan (1/15) and Noor Ahmed (2/20) uncovered the opposition with their guile.
Struggling up until now, Prabhsimran Singh (35 off 21) discovered some a lot wanted rhythm earlier than he fell within the sixth over, triggering a dramatic collapse.
Soon after guiding Mohit Sharma (2/32) for a six over third man, Prabhsimran charged down the wicket solely to be caught behind.
The spin trio then broke the spine of Punjab batting. Left-arm spinner Sai Kishore, who led Tamil Nadu to the Ranji Trophy semi-final this season, diverse his tempo successfully to hassle the opposition batters.
Pressure was maintained from different finish as properly through Noor and Rashid.
Noor’s first sufferer was Rilee Rossouw (9 off 7), who was trapped lbw whereas making an attempt a sweep shot. Skipper Sam Curran (20 off 19) departed within the following over from Rashid and the DRS name that dominated him lbw left him and his opponents shocked.
His English teammate Liam Livingstone (6 off 9) tried to work a Noor googly in the direction of mid-wicket however vanguard went to Rahul Tewatia stationed on the first slip.
Sai Kishore additionally removed an out of types Jitesh Sharma (13 off 12) to make it 86 for 5 in twelfth over.
As typically has been the case this season, the uncapped duo of Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma had been required to do the heavy lifting however they fell cheaply this time to make issues worse for Punjab.
Thanks to Harpreet Brar (29 off 12), the hosts acquired previous the 140-run mark.
