Ahmedabad |Gujarat Titans defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 56 runs in the 51st match of IPL 2023 to win comfortably. Gujarat Titans posted a mammoth score of 227 for the loss of 2 wickets in 20 overs. Shubman Gill played an unbeaten inning of 94 off 51 balls, Wriddhiman Shah scored 81 and Captain Hardik Pandya scored 25 runs. Mohsin Khan and Avesh Khan took 1-1 wickets. Chasing 227 runs, Lucknow Super Giants got off to a good start, but on the second ball of the 9th over Rashid Khan took a brilliant catch off Kyle Mayers on the bowling of Mohit Sharma to put the match away from Lucknow Super Giants. Kyle Mayers returned to the pavilion playing a brilliant innings of 48 runs, although Quinton de Kock played an inning of 70 runs, but the team of Lucknow Super Giant could not reach the huge target of 227 runs and lost the match by 56 runs, the entire team of Lucknow Super Giant could score only 171 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Mohit Sharma bowled brilliantly and took 4 wickets for 29 runs. Shubman Gill was adjudged man of the match for his brilliant batting.
Brief Scores:
Gujarat Giants: 2/227 over 20, Shubman Gill 94 not out, Wriddhiman Shah 81, Hardik Pandya 25, David Miller 21 not out, Avesh Khan 1/34, Mohsin Khan 1/42
Lucknow Super Giants: 7/171 over 20, Quinton de Kock 70, Kyle Mayers 48, Mohit Sharma 4/29