RR vs GT Highlights IPL 2024: Shubman Gill sizzles, Rashid Khan wins it for Gujarat off last ball; Rajasthan lose for the first time this season

Ranajit Dhar

getcricketnews|11-04-2024

With two runs needed off the last ball, Rashid Khan finished the game with a boundary to hand Gujarat Titans a three-wicket win against Rajasthan Royals at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. The chase of 197 was set up by captain Shubman Gill, who looked in divine touch, scoring 72 off 44 deliveries. Sanju Samson and Riyan Parag carried out a recovery act with superb fifties after RR lost openers Jos Buttler and Yashasvi Jaiswal within the PowerPlay. The duo’s gritty stand propelled Rajasthan to 196 for three in 20 overs. Earlier, GT captain Shubman Gill won the toss and opted to bowl against Sanju Samson’s RR in Jaipur. Sanju Samson-led Rajasthan, who lost their first game of the tournament on Wednesday, had walked into the game looking flawless in all four of their games. Both in the bowling and batting departments, different players have stepped up and chipped in on different occasions. The only cause of concern for the hosts is the form of Yashasvi Jaiswal who after having a splendid Test series against England is going through a bit of a lean patch. RR vs GT Live Score, IPL 2024: Strange but effective Rashid Khan's batting follows his very own coaching manual. But it is amazingly effective, even against long odds. Titans needed 40 off 15 deliveries when he came out to bat. The Afghan all-rounder sits deep in the crease and scythes the ball with his own version of the helicopter shot. He seems to correctly predict what the bowler is trying to do in the final overs and knowingly or otherwise, seems to find gaps and the rope, as he did in Jaipur on Wednesday. RR vs GT Live Score, IPL 2024: Gujarat win, Rajasthan's first loss of the season! Avesh Khan to close the game for Rajasthan. Rashid Khan on strike. First ball, low full toss, flicked down deep square leg for four. What a start for Gujarat! The next one is pitched full and outside off, Rashid helps it down wide long and runs a couple. Another one pitched outside off, this one a perfectly executed wide yorker, catches a faint outside edge off Rashid's bat and runs down short third for four. Five needed off three. Shane Watson reckons there's a helicopter shot six coming off Rashid Khan's bat. Not quite so. A single is all Gujarat can muster. Four needed off the last two balls with Tewatia on strike. It's a short ball and Tewatia has managed to get it over mid off. Buttler gives it a chase, saves a boundary and follows it up with a perfect throw. Looking for a third run, Tewatia is run out. There's a DRS check for a short run as well. This could be huge. The run's legal. So it's down to two off the last ball. One for a super over. Rashid on strike. He cuts it down point for four and Gujarat win by three wickets. Does a little 'I'm here' celebration for his teammates in the dugout. Rajasthan's winning streak comes to an end. RR vs GT Live Score, IPL 2024: BIG over for GT! Kuldeep Sen is entrusted with the penultimate over. He's been the pick of RR's bowlers, in his first game of the season. Starts off with a yorker right on the money before conceding a wide followed by Rahul Tewatia using brute force to beat Jos Buttler's chase down extra cover for four. It gets worse for the 27-year-old. Rashid Khan goes over the infield on the off side for another boundary, and it's a no ball. Another wide follows. 15 runs come off four deliveries. Tewatia closes the over with another boundary. It falls to 15 needed off the final over. RR vs GT Live Score, IPL 2024: Avesh bags a wicket! Avesh Khan to bowl the 17th. He managed to concede only four when 17 were needed in the final over at this very venue, emerging as another death bowling option RR had other than Sandeep Sharma. There's no Sandeep Sharma in the mix tonight but Avesh has got them a wicket, a crucial one given the stage where this game's at. Angled into Shahrukh Khan, a low full toss that's thumps into the right-hander's back leg. That one would've crashed into the middle. Rashid Khan is the new man in. He smashes one over Avesh's head down the ground but Jos Buttler makes a superb save by the fence. 162/6 after 18 overs. 35 needed off the last two overs. RR vs GT Live Score, IPL 2024: SRK and Tewatia in the zone, BIG over for GT Ashwin to bowl his fourth of the night. Shahrukh Khan is the new man in for Gujarat - Impact Player on for Mohit Sharma - accompanying Rahul Tewatia. Ashwin bowls one into the former Punjab Kings batter's slot and he wallops it over long on for six. Next up, a delivery straying too far down the leg side, paddled down fine leg for four. Tewatia closes the over by advancing down the track and thumping one over extra cover for four. 17 from the over. Gujarat are 155/5 after 16 overs. RR vs GT Live Score, IPL 2024: Chahal vs Gill Yuzvendra Chahal into his last over. Shubman Gill in his fishing-for-boundaries-finisher zone. First up, a fullish delivery outside off and Gill dances down the track before dispatching it between long off and extra cover for four. Next up, a shorter one with plenty of width on offer again, muscled past point for four. Keshav Maharaj has a chat with Chahal ahead of the third one. What was that all about? Maybe keeping it wide of the GT skipper's reach as IPL's most successful wicket-taker does and he gets good reward for it. Gill advances too far down the track, but misses to get the bat onto the ball. It's a wide. But it's one that sees him stumped. Big wicket for Rajasthan, Gujarat go five down.
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