IPL 2023 Highlights
Two matches took place on April 29, 2023, in the Indian Premier League. In the first game, the Kolkata Knight Riders were defeated by the Gujarat Titans at their home, Eden Gardens. Asked to bat first, Kolkata made 179 with the help of Rahmanullah Gurbaz's 81 off 39 balls.
Chasing it, the Titans lost Hardik Pandya, Wriddhiman Saha and Shiubman Gill while they still needed 87 to get from 52 balls. Vijay Shankar then played a sensational inning of 51 off just 24 balls and helped the Titans seal the game with 13 balls to spare.
Joshua Little took 2/25 and got crucial wickets of Nitish Rana and Venkatesh Iyer in the same over to stem the flow of runs. He was adjudged player of the match.
In the second game, Sunrisers Hyderabad exacted revenge in the bottom of the table clash against the Delhi Capitals at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. Opting to bat first, the Sunrisers were bolstered by great innings from Abhishek Sharma even as the rest of the players failed. He scored 67 off 36 balls. Later in the innings, Heinrich Klaasen scored a 27-ball 53* to get the orange briagde to 197/6.
Delhi chased the target well even after losing David Warner off the very second ball of their chase. Phil Salt and Mitchell Marsh hit individual fifties and added 112 for the second wicket. However, Mayank Markande broke the stand with Salt's wicket. This started a chain of wickets at regular intervals. In the end, they managed to score 188/6 and lost the game by nine runs.
Mitchell Marsh, who took 4/27 and scored 63 off 39 balls was named player of the match.
DC vs SRH Toss, IPL 2023 The Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Aiden Markram won the toss at the Arun Jaitley Stadium against Delhi Capitals captain David Warner and chose to bat first.
Delhi Capitals playing 11 David Warner (c), Philip Salt (wk), Mitchell Marsh, Manish Pandey, Priyam Garg, Axar Patel, Ripal Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar
Impact Substitute Options: Sarfaraz Khan, Lalit Yadav, Abhishek Porel, Khaleel Ahmed, Praveen Dubey
Sunrisers Hyderabad playing 11 Mayank Agarwal, Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Harry Brook, Abdul Samad, Mayank Markande, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Akeal Hosein, Umran Malik
Impact Substitute Options: Marco Jansen, Vivrant Sharma, Glenn Phillips, Mayank Dagar, Natarajan
KKR vs GT Toss, IPL 2023
The toss was delayed a bit due to rain. Gujarat Titans’ captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl first against Kolkata Knight Riders’ skipper Nitish Rana.
Kolkata Knight Riders’ playing 11
N Jagadeesan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, David Wiese, Shardul Thakur, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy
Impact Substitute options: Suyash Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Tim Southee, Kulwant Khejroliya
Gujarat Titans’ playing 11
Wriddhiman Saha(w), Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya(c), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Mohammed Shami, Mohit Sharma, Joshua Little
Impact Substitute options: Shubman Gill, Srikar Bharat, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Shivam Mavi, Jayant Yadav
IPL 2023 Highlights: Catch all the updates from the matches between Kolkata Knight Ridera and Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad, here
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