Sai Sudharsan missed a century, Gujarat Titans set a huge target of 218 runs in front of Rajasthan Royals
GT vs RR, Gujarat Titans vs Rajasthan Royals, IPL 2025: Gujarat Titans have scored 217 runs for the loss of six wickets in 20 overs. Sai Sudharsan scored 82 runs in 53 balls. Apart from him, Jos Buttler scored 36 runs in 25 balls and Shahrukh Khan scored 36 runs in 20 balls.
Due to the great batting performance of opener Sai Sudharsan, Gujarat Titans (GT) have posed a mammoth target of 218 runs in front of Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the 23rd match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. In the ongoing season, any team has so far reached just one target of over 180 runs, so this target will not be an easy task for Rajasthan.
Batting first, Gujarat managed to score 217 runs in the allotted 20 overs for the loss of 6 wickets. Sai Sudharsan played an excellent inning for the team and contributed 82 runs in 53 balls with the support of 8 fours and 3 sixes. Besides him, Jos Buttler contributed 36 runs in 25 balls, whereas Shahrukh Khan played a swift score of 36 runs in 20 balls.
Gujarat suffered the first blow at just 14 runs when Jofra Archer clean-bowled captain Shubman Gill and sent him to the pavilion. Gill could score only 2 runs. After this, Sai Sudharsan and Jos Buttler handled the innings and made an important partnership of 80 runs for the second wicket. On the score of 94, Mahesh Teekshana got the second success for Rajasthan by dismissing Buttler LBW.
After this, Sai Sudharsan got the support of Shahrukh Khan and both added 62 runs for the third wicket. At the score of 154 runs, Teekshana once again brought success, this time he got Shahrukh Khan caught by Sanju Samson.
Rutherford scored 6 runs off 3 balls and got caught by Sanju Samson behind the wicket on Sandeep Sharma's ball. After this, Tushar Deshpande gave the fifth blow to Gujarat by taking the important wicket of Sai Sudharsan. Rashid Khan also could not last long and he scored 12 runs off 4 balls, he too was caught out by Deshpande at the hands of Yashasvi Jaiswal.
In the end, Rahul Tewatia scored fast and took the team past 200. Tewatia played an important innings of 24 runs not out by hitting 2 fours and 2 sixes in 12 balls.
For Rajasthan Royals, Tushar Deshpande and Mahish Teekshana took 2-2 wickets, while Sandeep Sharma and Jofra Archer got 1-1 success.
