Gujarat Titans, inspired by Jos Buttler's unbeaten 97, defeated Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets in Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket on Saturday. After this result, Gujarat has climbed to the top with their fifth victory in 7 matches.
Batting first in high humidity, Delhi scored 203 runs losing 8 wickets. Player of the match Buttler hit 11 fours and 4 sixes in his 54-ball innings as Gujarat completed the target with 4 balls to spare. In the first two balls of the last over, Rahul Tewatia hit sixes and fours respectively to help Gujarat win.
For the first time in Ahmedabad, the target of 200 runs was chased, while Delhi failed to defend more than 200 runs for the first time. Captain Shubman Gill was dismissed in 7 runs. Another opener Sai Sudarshan scored 36 off 21 balls with 5 fours and 1 six and Serphan Rutherford scored 43 off 34 balls with 1 four and 3 sixes.
Earlier from Delhi, captain Akshar Patel scored 39 off 32 balls, Ashutosh Sharma 37 off 19 balls, Karun Nair scored 31 off 18 balls and Tristan Stubbs scored 31 off 21 balls, captain KL Rahul scored 28 off 14 balls and Abhishek Porel scored 18 off 9 balls. The famous Krishna from Gujarat took 4 wickets with 41 runs in 4 overs.
The day Vaibhav wrote history
Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who became the youngest player to play in the IPL at the age of 14 years and 23 days, could not give victory to Rajasthan Royals on Saturday despite his excellent partnership with Yashasvi Jaiswal. Rajasthan lost by 3 runs against Lucknow Super Giants. While chasing the target of 181 runs, Rajasthan put Vaibhav into bat as an 'impact player' at the innings break. Despite sharing 85 runs in 9 overs with Vaibhav and Jaiswal for the first wicket, Rajasthan could score only 178 runs after losing 5 wickets and had to accept their fourth defeat in a row.
Vaibhav, who hit a six in the first ball he faced, scored 34 runs with a total of 2 fours and 3 sixes in 20 balls and was dismissed by Aiden Markram. Jaiswal scored 74 runs off 52 balls with 5 fours and 4 sixes. Captain Ryan Parag was dismissed for 39 off 26 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. Rajasthan needed 9 runs in the last over for victory, but Avesh Khan gave only 6 runs.
Earlier from Lucknow, Markram scored 66 off 45 balls, Ayush Badoni scored 50 off 34 balls and Abdul Samad scored an unbeaten 30 off 10 balls.
