In match 57 of IPL 2022 played at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, Gujarat Titans defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 62 runs. This is Gujarat’s ninth win this season. With this, Hardik Pandya’s team qualified for the playoffs. Gujarat is the first IPL 2022 team to make the playoffs.
Gujarat Titans went 144 for 4 in 20 overs after playing the first. In response, the Lucknow Super Giants team only went 82 runs in 13.5 overs. Rashid Khan, Yash Dayal and R Sai Kishore performed brilliantly for Gujarat. Rashid took four wickets. At the same time, Yash and Kishore took two wickets each.
Chasing the target of 145 races from Gujarat, the start of Lucknow was not good. Quinton de Kock returned to the pavilion with a score of 19 in the fourth over. He scored 11 runs on 10 balls. After this, KL Rahul, who was in excellent form, was also fired cheaply. Rahul was only able to score eight runs on 16 balls.
After two windows dropped for 24 races, Deepak Hooda tried to drive one end, but the windows kept falling from the other side at regular intervals. Facing tight bowling from Gujarat, only 3 batsmen from Lucknow could get close to double figures. During this, debutant Karan Sharma 04, Krunal Pandya 05, Ayush Badoni 08, Marcus Stoinis 02 and Jason Holder were out for 01. Following this, Mohsin Khan 01 and Avesh Khan were fired after scoring 12 runs on 4 balls with the 2 six support. At the same time, Dushmanta Chamira came back undefeated by zero.
Previously, starter Shubman Gill scored the highest unbeaten 63 runs while batting for Gujarat Titans. Gill hit 7 fours in his half-century innings. At the same time, Rahul Tewatia played an unbeaten inning of 22 runs on 16 balls. Thanks to these two, Gujarat had set a target of 145 runs against Lucknow.