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Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals were face to face in the IPL on Saturday night. In this match, Gujarat Titans defeated Delhi team by 14 runs. In this match held at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, Delhi lost the match while chasing, which is only the third time in this IPL season.
Delhi captain Rishabh Pant has attributed the loss to his team’s poor batting. After the match, he said, ‘Looking at the wicket, it seems that the target was not that big. We should have batted well. There was a need for good batting especially in the middle overs. We lost three wickets in the powerplay and three wickets in the middle overs. After losing so many wickets, it becomes difficult to win any match.
Pant won the toss and elected to bowl first in this match. Before this match, in all the seven matches played in the IPL in the night, the team that bowled first had won. In such a situation, Pant chose to bowl first in this match as well. Although this wicket of Pune was different from the wickets of Mumbai and dew was not a big factor here. In such a situation, Gujarat Titans, who bowled later, registered victory. On this, when Pant was asked whether he would like to bowl first here next time? So to this he replied, ‘It will depend on the weather. At the moment we are not thinking about it. Will see when we come to Pune again.
Delhi got the target of 172 runs
In this match, Gujarat, batting first, scored 171 runs in the stipulated 20 overs, thanks to a scintillating 84 runs by Shubman Gill. In response, Delhi’s team was in a strong position by making 118 runs at one time losing 4 wickets with the help of the innings of Rishabh Pant (43). But here Pant’s wicket fell and then one after the other the batsmen started returning to the pavilion. Delhi team could score only 157 runs till the allotted 20 overs and Gujarat Titans won the match by 14 runs. New Zealand fast bowler Lockie Ferguson was adjudged ‘Player of the Match’.
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