IPL 2025: It's future tense for Gujarat Titans
AHMEDABAD:
(CSK) displayed remarkable batting prowess at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday, with their mid-season acquisitions Ayush Mhatre, Urvil Patel, and Dewald Brevis leading the charge to post an impressive 230/5 against Gujarat Titans.
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The five-time IPL champions complemented their batting with excellent fielding and bowling to secure an 83-run victory.
Despite this commanding win, CSK finished last in the ten-team standings with eight points. GT accumulated 18 points, but their recent defeats put their top-two position in doubt, pending other results.
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The triumph was initially built on Mhatre's 34 (17b, 3x4, 3x6) in the powerplay, aggressive batting in the middle overs by Urvil (37 off 19b; 4x4, 2x6) and Shivam Dube (17 off 8b; 2x6), and Brevis' (57 off 23b; 4x4, 5x6) scintillating hitting in the death overs.
The fireworks started as early as the second over when Mhatre took a special liking to Arshad Khan hitting him for 28 runs. He slammed two sixes over long-on and mid-wicket. He followed it up with two fours on either side of the wicket. The 17-year-old then hooked the left-arm pacer for a maximum over long leg as CSK galloped to 34 in two overs.
Prasidh Krishna (2/22) was introduced in the fourth over, and Mhatre who tried to keep going, skied one to mid-off where Mohammad Siraj took a good overhead catch.
Urvil flicked Siraj over mid-wicket for a maximum to get going. He hit left-arm spinner R Sai Kishore over deep mid-wicket before falling to the left-arm spinner who had Patel lofting him to skipper Shubman Gill at extra cover.
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Dube smashed two maximums before being caught by Gerald Coetzee off Shahrukh Khan's part-time offspin. Devon Conway (52 off 35b; 6x4, 2x6), at the other end, helped himself to a half-century before being castled by Rashid Khan, as CSK reached 156/4 in the 14th over.
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Thereafter, Brevis and Ravindra Jadeja (21* off 18b; 1x4, 1x6) added 74 off 39 balls for the fifth wicket. Brevis showed no mercy on any of the bowlers, depositing Rashid, Siraj (twice), Coetzee, and Prasidh into the stands.
In pursuit, the Titans never got going, with Gill (13) edging to Urvil in slips off Anshul Kamboj. Soon, Buttler (5) and Rutherford (0) were sent back by Khaleel Ahmed and Kamboj (3/13), as the Titans slipped to 35/3 in the powerplay. B Sai Sudharsan (41) and Shahrukh (19) added 55 for the fourth wicket before Jadeja (2/17) had both the batters caught at backward point in the 11th over. The lower order tried, but it was too much to do as the Titans were bowled out for 147.
Left-arm wrist spinner Noor Ahmad (3/21) leapfrogged Prasidh for the Purple Cap.
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