Sai Sudharsan narrowly missed out on a century for Gujarat Titans towards Chennai Tremendous Kings within the Indian Premier League closing on the Narendra Modi Stadium on Monday.
The Chennai lad scored 96 off 47 balls, courtesy of 8 fours and 6 sixes as Gujarat posted a formidable 214/4, the highest-ever whole in an IPL closing.
Sudharsan was aptly supported by Wriddhiman Saha who scored a fifty off his personal earlier than getting dismissed by Deepak Chahar.
Earlier, after getting a few early reprieves, Gujarat Titans misplaced their talismanic opener Shubman Gill early within the closing, because of some magic from Chennai Tremendous Kings’ MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja.
Shubman, who took the Orange Cap for the very best run-scorer of the season in Qualifier 2 final week, was trying in effective kind within the closing, having scored 39 off 19 balls. This included three consecutive boundaries off a Tushar Deshpande over.
However within the final ball of the seventh over, Jadeja bowled a flatter and fuller supply at Gill which enticed him ahead. However the flip beat his edge and sneaked into the fingers of Dhoni, who wasted no time in whipping off the bails. It was the three hundredth T20 dismissal for Dhoni in what’s his 250th IPL recreation.
The wicket of Gill was necessary for the CSK as he has scored 890 runs this season, with three centuries and 4 half centuries at a median of 59.33.