Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill, who was out of the tournament with a 20 -run defeat against Mumbai Indians, said that it is not easy to win after dripping three catches in the powerplay.
Mumbai scored 228 runs for five wickets, batting first on the strength of Rohit Sharma (81 off 50 balls) and Johnny Bairstow (47 off 22 balls). In response, the Gujarat team could score 208 runs for six wickets despite Sai Sudarshan, who scored the highest run in this season of IPL and was ruled out of the tournament.
India’s new Test captain Gill said, “The last three four overs did not go in our favor but it was a good match. It is not easy to win after dripping three catches, especially in Powerplay.
The fielding of Gujarat was very poor and dripped three important catches, two of which were from Rohit and one of Suryakumar Yadav (33 off 20 balls). Rohit got two lives in Powerplay, which he took full advantage of.
First Garald Koetzi left his catch in Deep and then Kusal Mendis, who made his debut for Gujarat, dripped the catch behind the wicket off Mohammad Siraj.
Gill said, “It is not easy for the bowlers to control. Our message was clear to play according to yourself. This was what was said to Sai Sudarshan and Washington Sundar. ”
He said, “The last two -three matches did not go in our favor but the team is credited with a great performance to Sai, especially Sai. He played very well. The score of 210 would have been good on this pitch. ”
At the same time, ‘Player of the Match’, Rohit Sharma said that he wanted to take full advantage of the lives found in his innings. He said, “I only scored four half -centuries. I wanted to make more. I know the importance of playing eliminator. This victory has been won by team efforts. ”
The former captain said, “When I play, the goal is to try to give my best performance. Today luck supported me and I knew that it had to take full advantage of it. I am glad that I could do this and bring the team to good position. We knew that it would become quite challenging after the dew fell.