Former India player Aakash Chopra has praised Sai Sudharsan for playing a match-winning knock in the Gujarat Titans’ (GT) match against the RCB. While observing that Sai missed a well-deserved half-century, he added that the youngster paced his innings quite well. GT restricted RCB to 169/8, and Sudharsan scored 49 runs off 36 deliveries in the chase as they reached the target with eight wickets and 13 deliveries in hand.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “Sai Sudharsan with the bat – Sai hai to sab sahi hai (Everything is fine if Sai is there). Sai is flying high. He batted extremely well. He missed his fifty for sure but paced his innings very well, and that’s what he does. He has got the batting. Shubman Gill – it seems like he is in form and is batting well, but he is missing out way too often. It’s been three matches, he was looking decent in all three, but then he gets out. Bhuvi (Bhuvneshwar Kumar) picked up a wicket.”

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However, Aakash Chopra also praised Jos Buttler (73* off 39) for playing a stunning knock to take the team home.

“Jos Buttler – the guy is different. He bats at a different level while chasing, stays till the end, and finishes the game by hitting. He took down the spinners, whether it was Krunal Pandya or Liam Livingstone. He even destroyed Josh Hazlewood later and won the match. It got validated once again that if one of GT’s top three stays till the 15th or 16th over, they would win the match. However, I felt they could have done one thing. Since Kagiso Rabada wasn’t there and you didn’t play Gerald Coetzee, you could have played both Sherfane Rutherford and Glenn Phillips. You could have done that by dropping any batter, as you don’t get that opportunity every day,” Aakash Chopra concluded.