Firing his first ever ton of the league, Gill dazzled with a 58-ball 101 to mild up the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad as he single-handedly lifted Titans to a stable 188 for 9 regardless of a late comeback by Bhuvneshwar Kumar (5 for 30). Chasing a steep whole, Sunrisers had one other forgettable outing with the bat and so they completed at 154 for 9.
Shami was the wrecker-in-chief for the hosts because the veteran’s unbelievable spell with the brand new ball sealed the destiny of the sport earlier than the midway mark. Heinrich Klaasen did rating a resilient 64 however the guests had been by no means within the chase after being lowered to 49 for six within the seventh over.
The loss for Sunrisers meant that they’re now formally out of the play-off race, changing into the second crew after Delhi Capitals to bow out of the top-four combat.
SRH had been off to a disastrous begin, shedding the wickets of Anmolpreet Singh, Abhishek Sharma and Rahul Tripathi contained in the third over, with the scoreboard studying simply 12.
It turned worse for SRH of their must-win sport as Shami picked up his third wicket within the type of rival skipper Aiden Markram an over later, after which, Mohit dismissed Sanvir Singh and Abdul Samad within the seventh over to scale back the guests to 49 for six.
As It Happened
This season’s marketing campaign was pretty much as good as over for SRH as Marco Jansen turned Mohit’s third sufferer within the ninth over.
Reeling at 59 for seven, SRH lastly managed a partnership by means of Klaasen and Bhuvneshwar (27), the duo including 68 runs for the eighth wicket.
Earlier, despatched into bat GT suffered an early blow as they misplaced Wriddhiman Saha for a duck within the third ball of the innings, nicking one to Abhishek Sharma at second slip.
After a sedate begin, GT broke the shackles within the third over with Gill and Sudharsan hitting Bhuvneshwar for 3 beautiful boundaries to select up 15 runs.
Having discovered his contact, the in-form Gill pulled, drove and flicked to gather 4 consecutive boundaries off Fazalhaq Farooqi.
Both Sudharsan and Gill dealt in boundaries to take GT to 65 for one in six overs.
Gill, particularly, was at his attacking finest as he continued his onslaught and pulled SRH skipper Markram for 2 consecutive fours within the seventh over after which struck Mayank Markande for 2 extra boundaries.
At the top of the tenth over, GT had been 103 for one.
It was mayhem thereafter with Gill and Sudharsan going hammer and tongs to take care of a wholesome run price of over 10 until 14 overs.
Sudharsan lastly departed within the fifteenth over, caught by T Natarajan at backward level off the bowling of Marco Jansen.
GT skipper Hardik Pandya did not final lengthy, giving an easy catch to Rahul Tripathi at level, handing Bhuvneshwar his second scalp of the day.
David Miller perished within the subsequent over whereas trying a giant hit. Rahul Tewatia was the following to depart as SRH picked up 4 wickets in 4 overs.
Gill, nonetheless, went about his business and introduced up his century in 56 balls with a single to long-off within the nineteenth over. But quickly after elevating his ton, Gill perished within the opening ball of the ultimate over, caught by Samad off Bhuvneshwar.
Rashid Khan bought a thick edge within the subsequent ball and Noor Ahmad additionally departed throughout a superb remaining over by Bhuvneshwar.
(With inputs from PTI)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com