Gujarat Titans defeat Lucknow Super Giants by 62 runs. (Photo by Vipin Pawar / Sportzpics for IPL)IPL 2022, LSG vs GT Highlights: Gujarat Titans beat Lucknow Super Giants by 62 runs in a low-scoring Indian Premier League match to enter the play-offs on Tuesday. Opting to bat, GT posted 144 for 4 with opener Shubman Gill top-scoring with a 63 not out off 49 balls while David Miller chipped in with 26. For LSG, Avesh Khan took two wickets for 26 runs while Mohsin Khan and Jason Holder got one each. Chasing the target, LSG were all out for 82 in 13.5 overs. Deepak Hooda top-scored for LSG with 27. For GT, Rashid Khan took four wickets for 24 runs while Yash Dayal and Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore got two apiece.
Brief Scores:
Gujarat Titans: 144 for 4 in 20 overs (Shubman Gill 63 not out; Avesh Khan 2/26).
Lucknow Super Giants: 82 all out in 13.5 overs (Deepak Hooda 27; Rashid Khan 4/24).
Follow highlights of GT vs LSG from Pune below.
Lucknow Super Giants
82 (13.5)Gujarat Titans
144/4 (20.0)Gujarat Titans beat Lucknow Super Giants by 62 runs
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the last six wickets went down in the blink of an eye and it was a thumping win for Gujarat who have hammered Lucknow Super Giants by 62 runs in a one-sided counter. LSG bundled out for 82 | Rashid Khan stars with 4/24. Gujarat Titans into playoffs. Remember- 450 T20 wickets for Rashid Khan and he's just 23 years old!
Deepak Hooda plays this unusual back-foot punch wherein he rides the bounce on shortish deliveries, arches further inside the line and slams the ball flat in the air through point or backward point. He doesn’t even need width, and sometimes has both feet airborne when bat meets ball. Usually batsmen tend to go in front of square, even if only slightly, when playing the back-foot punch. Ajinkya Rahane does that, so does Aiden Markram, a predominant back-foot batsman.
Some teams have tried to prevent Hooda from playing that stroke this IPL with a short point on the square, about halfway in from the regulation point position. Delhi Capitals did that, and successfully shut off that route, but Hooda was good enough to force another scoring zone through extra cover in that game.
Gujarat Titans did not have the close fielder in place when Alzarri Joseph came on just after the powerplay. On a Pune pitch where most found it hard to time the ball, Hooda rose even as Joseph’s first delivery reared up outside off, and punched his square-hit horizontal for a much-needed boundary for Lucknow Super Giants.
- Abhishek Purohit
OUT! What a great running catch by Rashid Khan! Gujarat continues to roar! Mohsin Khan takes the wicket. LSG: 70/8 after 13 overs
Rashid Khan mixes his variations superbly. He lets out a traditional leggie. Lands it a bit short and around leg, Jason Holder goes on the back foot to work it around but misses. LSG: 67/7 after 12 overs
A body blow to Lucknow's chances of making any comeback. Deepak Hooda sweeps it in front of square on the leg side and takes the first run quickly. He wants the second and Stoinis responds but he fails to realise that Hooda has stopped after taking off.
OUT! STUMPED! Wriddhiman Saha and his swift hands are in action again. Sai Kishore tosses this one up, lands it full and around off, Ayush Badoni steps down the track for a big shot but it spins past his bat. Saha does the rest in no time. Lucknow have lost their fifth wicket and are staring down the barrel. LSG: 62/5 after 11 overs
DRS has been taken! Rashid Khan wants it to be checked, whether it's off the pads or bat. Hardik obliges and Gujarat end up taking one of the poorest reviews ever. Flights it towards leg, full in length, Ayush Badoni walks forward and eases it down to long on. A review wasted. LSG: 58/4 after 10 overs
Rashid Khan the magician strikes and Wriddhiman Saha is lightning quick. The leggie from Afghanistan bamboozles the batter with yet another well-cooked googly. He puts it around off, Krunal Pandya gets forward with a big stretch to play at it but it spins past his defensive blade. Lucknow are in tatters! LSG: 47/4 after 8 overs
The best part about Mohammad Shami’s dismissal of KL Rahul was that there was no surprise. Everyone was on it, including the broadcasters who showed him working over Rahul for a couple of overs. Across languages, the Hot Star commentators were on it too. Shami has been hot this IPL. Yet again, he showed why he has the most number of wickets in the Powerplay (13) when he took out Rahul. Ball after ball, he banged it around the 8 metre mark. Couple cut in, couple shaped away, the straighter ones hit the bat rather than the other way around. The pressure was cooking. Just two balls left in Shami’s third over; and Rahul must have wondered whether he should play it out or go for it. Shami pitched this ball a tad shorter, no major difference to the general 8m-cluster but it was shorter by a ball’s width, say. Rahul swivelled into his pull but this was Shami’s heavy ball. It thudded into Rahul’s bat and spooned right up for Wriddhiman Saha, the keeper, to take a dolly. Rahul kept shaking his head as he walked away, perhaps aghast that he had fallen for it, but no shame really for such has been Shami’s bowling this season.
- Sriram Veera
Karan Sharma gets a boundary of Yash Dayal and then falls on the next ball. The debutant walks back after a timid score. Yash Dayal grabs his second wicket and Lucknow are 3 down! Krunal Pandya is the new man in. He gets a boundary off the first ball and Lucknow are 37 for 3 at the end of the Powerplay!
Mohammad Shami strikes and sends back KL Rahul for the second time in this campaign. Gujarat have started this game just like they had envisioned. LSG: 24/2 after 5 overs
SIX and a Wicket! Quinton de Kock breaks his shackles with this maximum! But Dayal has the last laugh here. Sai Kishore takes a stunning catch on his debut to send Quinton de Kock back on 11. LSG: 24/1 after 4 overs
Shami is off to an excellent start. A length ball, outside off. Quinton de Kock drives it towards mid off but there is no run out there. Rahul and QDK being watchful at the start. LSG: 12/0 after 3 overs
FOUR! Off the outside edge. This boundary spoils a good start for Hardik Pandya. Back of a length, outside off. KL Rahul slashes hard at it. The ball flies to third man off the outside edge for four. LSG: 10/0 after 2 overs
We are back for the chase! The players are out in the middle. Quinton de Kock and KL Rahul will open the batting for Lucknow. Mohammad Shami will begin proceedings with the ball. Let's go!
1 4 Wd 4 0 Wd 4 L1 = 16 in the last over. Tewatia and Gill get the much-needed hits to the fence as GUJARAT FINISH ON 144/4! | The last 5 overs went for 52 but it's 144 on the board. The GT batting innings was a struggle from the start as LSG's seamers bowled it into the pitch either on a hard length or by taking the pace off with cutters.
The penultimate over of the innings. The 18th over went for just 5 runs as Mohsin finishes his spell. Avesh to bowl the 19th. Excellent bowling. Just 2 runs from the first 2 balls. Oh no!!! Misfield. It just spun over him. That's a four. Three dots thereafter. GT: 134/4 after 19 overs
That's 50 for Gill, He has played an excellent knock. A great four by Gill to Chameera to follow. Is that another?? Yes!! Lucky shot for four more. Fielder almost got his hands on it. GT 117/4 after 17 overs.
Holder in to bowl the first of the slog overs. Finally a six by Miller. You bowl that to Miller and you'll get punished. That's 100 up for Gujarat. And gone!! Miller slices and that's taken. GT 103/4 after 16 overs.
Aversh Khan in to bowl the 15th. 2 runs offf the first 3 balls as Gujarat trudge along. They need more boundaries tis innings to at least put up a fighting total. GT 92/3 after 15 overs