Latest News :- Defending champions Chennai won the toss against Gujarat in the 59th match of the IPL T20 cricket series on 10 May and announced that they would bowl first. After this, captain Subman Gill and Sai Sudarshan, who came on the field, fiercely faced the Chennai bowlers who were bowling lightly from the beginning and kept on scoring runs.

Thus, as time passed, the pair made a partnership of 100 runs and scored a half-century. The pair comprising Sai Sudarshan scored 103 (51) and captain Subman Gill scored 104 (55), who stitched a 210-run partnership at the same pace to obliterate Chennai.

Chennai's defeat: In this way, he also created the record of highest run partnership for any wicket against Chennai in IPL history. Thanks to his action, Gujarat scored 231/3 runs in 20 overs and Dushar Deshpande Pandey took maximum 2 wickets for Chennai. Chasing a tough target of 232, Chennai were bowled out early by Ragane for 1 (5) and captain Ruduraj was out for a duck.

On the other side of Bothakurai, Rachin Ravindra was also out for 1(2) and Chennai quickly fell to 10/3. The then pairing of Moeen Ali and Daryl Mitchell played calmly and as time passed, they put in all their might to put up a partnership of 109 runs for the fourth wicket.

However, the pair of Mitchell 63 (34) and Moeen Ali 56 (36) were out at the crucial time, which partially saved Chennai. At that time, under the pressure of increasing run rate, Shivam Dubey, who came forward, was out on 21 (13) and Ravindra Jadeja was out on 18 (10). In the end, despite MS Dhoni scoring 26* (11), Chennai lost miserably, scoring only 196/8 in 20 overs.

So for Gujarat, which won by 35 runs, Mohit Sharma took 3 wickets and Rashid took 2 wickets. With this win, Gujarat has retained its chance to qualify for the play-offs. Chennai, on the other hand, are forced into a life-or-death situation where they have to win their last 2 matches to qualify for the play-offs.