Darshan Nalkande to bowl the last over...
Punjab Kings lost Ashutosh Sharma on the first ball but Shashank Singh smashed a four on the third delivery and finished the game with a ball remaining.
Punjab Kings - 200/7 in 19.5 overs.
SIX and OUT
Jitesh Sharma produces two back-to-back sixes but misses the next one off Rashid Khan.
Jitesh scored 16 off 8 balls. Impact sub Ashutosh Sharma joins Shashank Singh in the middle.
PBKS - 153/6 in 16 overs.
Mohit comes, batter goes! That may have become a reality for the Gujarat Titans and the other opponents given his consistency with the wickets he takes. Gets the wicket of set Sikandar Raza. Can he bowl his side home?
Punja Kings are falling like a pack of cards here as Sam Curran has hit straight to shot mid-wicket fielder Kane Williamson as Afghanistan bowlers continue to dominate the proceedings for the Gujarat Titans.
Noor Ahmad removes another settled batter Prabhsimran Singh to put Gujarat Titans in the driving seat.
Prabhsimran scored 35 off 24 balls. Sikandar Raza joins Sam Curran in the middle.
PBKS - 66/3 in 7.3 overs.
Noor Ahmad bowls out dangerous Jonny Bairstow on his first delivery of the game as Gujarat Titans scalp a big breakthrough.
Jonny Bairstow scored 22 off 13 balls. Sam Curran joins Prabhsimran Singh in the middle.
PBKS - 54/2 in 6 overs.
Prabhsimran Singh smashes one six and one four off Umesh Yadav to accelerate Punjab's chase in the fourth over.
PBKS - 39/1 in 4 overs. (Jonny Bairstow - 20* off 10 balls, Prabhsimran Singh - 18* off 12 balls).
Rashid Khan to bowl the fifth over.
Punjab Kings have conceded 199 once again in back-to-back games after Lucknow Super Giants scored the same amount of runs. Rahul Tewatia with his knock of 23 off 8 has ensured that the Titans might have a winning total on the board, especially with their two overseas spinner in the line-up.
Rahul Tewatia has tore into Harshal Patel with a six and a boundary with the pacer bowling a few wides and Gill and him running a triple.
Vijay Shankar after scoring 8 off 10 balls has been dismissed by Kagiso Rabada, which might be a good thing for the Titans given Rahul Tewatia is set to come in.
A six and a four, Shubman Gill has taken Punjab Kings pacer Kagiso Rabada for a ride with a couple of big hits to push GT's scoring in the last few overs.
Captain Shubman Gill has smashed his fifty and completed 1500 runs for Gujarat Titans in just 37 matches for the side. He has laid the platform, but can he go big now?
Harshal Patel has cut short a short and fun innings from Sai Sudharsan, who was given a different role by the team today. Sudharsan came in to hit and did score at a strike rate of 170-plus.
Kane Williamson played a good little knock on his IPL return of 26 runs and just when he looked set and ready to go for his shots, Harpreet Brar got him caught at backward point.
Gujarat Titans have recovered well with regular boundaries to cross 50 in the powerplay itself and with both the main batters in Shubman Gill and Kane Williamson in the middle, the Titans will be looking to lay a solid foundation.
Wriddhiman Saha got a reprieve early through DRS but not this time as he top-edged a Kagiso Rabada delivery straight into the hands of skipper Shikhar Dhawan to hand the Punjab Kings their first breakthrough.
The umpire gave Wriddhiman Saha out with Arshdeep Singh bringing the ball into him. However, Saha was quick to go upstairs and the ball was going over the stumps.
Shubman Gill and Wriddhiman Saha have walked out to bat for the Gujarat Titans and will be looking to give their side a good start.
PBKS Playing XI: Shikhar Dhawan(c), Jonny Bairstow, Jitesh Sharma(w), Prabhsimran Singh, Sam Curran, Shashank Singh, Sikandar Raza, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh
GT Playing XI: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Shubman Gill(c), Sai Sudharsan, Kane Williamson, Vijay Shankar, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Umesh Yadav, Darshan Nalkande
Punjab Kings have won the toss and chosen to field first. Skipper Shikhar Dhawan reckoned that the ground has been good for chasing initially and the surface looked pretty hard and good to stay the same throughout the 40 overs. Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill also wanted to bowl first but didn't mind going on first with the bat.
Pitch 6, the centre one will be used for the GT vs PBKS clash and is a bit different from the first two games. It gripped and turned and stayed slow in the first two games in Ahmedabad but this surface, a mixture of black and red soil, was used four times in IPL 2023 and the chasing team won three out of them. A hard surface with plenty of runs in it, should be a cracker.
Livingstone's injury will be a factor of sweating over for the Punjab Kings, otherwise, if all are fit, the Men in Red will continue with this first-choice line-up unless they would want to look at Nathan Ellis on Ahmedabad surface, which has played a bit slow this year as compared to 2023.
It's a pretty meta fixture for Shubman Gill as he will be playing for Gujarat Titans against a team based out of his native place at his adopted home ground with the franchise, where he has mounted runs for fun. 736 runs at 61.7 and a strike rate of 157 at the Narendra Modi Stadium is an outrageous record and Gill will be keen on to extend the same.
It might be an emotion-filled game for Shubman Gill, whose captaincy journey for Gujarat Titans take on the franchise belonging to a state and the place where he belongs, Punjab and consisting of many of his friends and domestic teammates. Many Punjab fans wanted Gill to play for the Kings in IPL before the new franchise Titans decided to draft him in and now have made him skipper after just two years.
At 102 for no loss with all 10 wickets in hand both the openers set, the Punjab Kings would have fancied their chances of chasing a target of 200 against the Lucknow Super Giants. However, an injury to Liam Livingstone coupled with Mayank Yadav's surprise pace led to the Kings' downfall and fell short. Can they turn it around against the Titans?
The last year's finalists and the 2022 champions Gujarat Titans despite being with a depleted squad, have found players who have put their hand up in certain situations to win two out of two at home in Ahmedabad and that will be their objective yet again on April 54 against the Punjab Kings. Welcome to our live coverage of the Match No. 17 of IPL 2024.
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