IPL 2024 | Twitter reacts to skillful Mohit Sharma setting up Titans’ home triumph against Orange Army

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Gujarat Titans won their second game in IPL 2024 after thrashing Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets, bouncing back from their recent loss against Chennai Super Kings. Mohit Sharma’s three-fer set up a below-par SRh total with GT's top five easing the chase with five balls to spare in Ahmedabad.

Brief Scores: SRH: 162/8 [Samad: 29*, Abhishek: 29; Mohit: 4-0-25-3] lost to GT: 168/3 [Sudharsan:45, Miller: 44* ; Cummins: 4-0-28-1]

Winning the toss in a memorable ground, Pat Cummins opted to bat first and Travis Head followed up with a brisk start with scratchy-looking Mayank Agarwal. Following their 34-run partnership, Abhishek Sharma joined Head and smoked two sixes against Rashid Khan to conclude the powerplay with 54 runs. However, SRH could score just 20 runs in the next four overs losing both Head and Sharma in the eighth and tenth over. While Heinrich Klaasen (13-ball 24) tried to counter the Titans bowlers, Rashid Khan had the last laugh by cleaning up the Proteas batter in the 14th over. A struggling Aiden Markram followed suit in the next over with the score reeling at 122/5 in 15 overs. As the pitch looked on the slower side, Shahbaz Ahmed found it difficult to extract boundaries but Abdul Samad’s quickfire kept the Orange Army in the game before Mohit Sharma scalped two wickets in the final over to restrict SRH to 162/8 in 20 overs.

In reply, Gujarat Titans got off to a decent start courtesy of Wridhdhiman Saha and Shubman Gill adding 36 runs for the first wicket before the wicketkeeper-batter fell cheaply to Shahbaz Ahmed in the fifth over. They ended up with 52 runs powerplay as Sai Sudharsan played second fiddle to Gill’s 28-ball 36 before Mayank Markande outwitted him in the tenth over. With the score reading 78/2 in ten overs, the home side could add just 36 runs in the next five overs with the SRH pacers varying the pace wittily. David Miller and Sai Sudharsan slammed 24 runs off Markande in the next over before the southpaw holed out in the deep, leaving the equation to 25 required from 23 balls. New batter Vijay Shankar joined Miller to extract nine runs each in the next couple of overs, leaving seven runs behind in two overs. Although Cummins conceded just six runs in the penultimate over, the defence was out of control as GT sealed their second home victory on the back of Miller’s six.

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