The Gujarat Titans registered a five-wicket win over the Sunrisers Hyderabad in Match 40 of IPL 2022 on the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on April 27. The last-ball thriller helped GT in retaining their prime spot within the factors desk with seven victories from eight matches together with 14 factors and an NRR of 0.371.
GT skipper Hardik Pandya gained the toss and elected to bowl first. SRH have been lowered to 44/2 within the powerplay earlier than Abhishek Sharma and Aiden Markram carried out the rescue act with a 96-run stand for the third wicket. Sharma scored 65 runs off 42 deliveries earlier than his dismissal. The Orange Military then suffered a batting collapse, however Markram single-handedly anchored the innings and propelled his aspect to a stiff complete of 195/6. He scored a 40-ball 56.
Umran Malik’s fifer goes in useless
In reply, openers Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill laid a strong basis with a 69-run opening stand earlier than the previous was castled by a beautiful supply from speedster Umran Malik. The teen wreaked havoc by accounting for captain Pandya and a well-set Saha for a quickfire 38-ball 68.
The rising pacer confirmed no indicators of slowing down and acquired the higher of David Miller and Abhinav Manohar to finish his maiden five-wicket haul. Thus, he utterly broke Gujarat’s spine and ensured that Hyderabad have been properly on the right track for a sixth consecutive win.
SRH have been nonetheless within the driver’s seat because the match went all the way down to the wire with GT needing 22 runs from the ultimate over. The ball was given to Marco Jansen who was spectacular within the final recreation towards the southern rivals Royal Challengers Bangalore. Sadly each for him and Hyderabad, he acquired all of it fallacious as he was put below strain straight away by hard-hitters Rashid Khan and Rahul Tewatia. The duo clobbered Jansen for 4 sixes in an over and this time, for a change, it was Rashid who acquired the job finished for his workforce by taking part in the finisher’s position to perfection.
Right here’s the up to date factors desk after GT vs SRH:
| TEAM | MATCHES | WON | LOST | PTS | NRR |
| Gujarat Titans | 8 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 0.371 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 8 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 0.561 |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 8 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 0.600 |
| Lucknow Tremendous Giants | 8 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 0.334 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 9 | 5 | 4 | 10 | -0.572 |
| Punjab Kings | 8 | 4 | 4 | 8 | -0.419 |
| Delhi Capitals | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0.715 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 8 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0.080 |
| Chennai Tremendous Kings | 8 | 2 | 6 | 4 | -0.538 |
| Mumbai Indians | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | -1.000 |
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