Shubman Gill-led Gujarat Titans (GT) and Pat Cummins-led Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) played the 12th match of the Indian Premier League 2024 (IPL 2024) at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday, March 31. Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) won the toss and opted to bat first and posted 162/8 on the board in their allotted 20 overs. While chasing, Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill provided GT with a good start. But Shubman Gill, meanwhile, was cautious in his approach and scored a 28-ball 36 in the match as well.

At the post-match presentation ceremony, Gujarat Titans (GT) captain Shubman Gill said that it feels good to win back-to-back matches at home. Shubman Gill said: “To be able to win two matches at home, great. Our next match is also here and then we’ve got a couple of matches on the road. Hopefully by the time we come back, we will have good momentum into this tournament. The way our bowlers bowled in the middle overs, especially Noor … obviously Rashid bhai is a world-class bowler and he’s always coming in and giving his best, but the way Darshan came in and bowled those two crucial overs at the death was very important for us.”

Shubman Gill also applauded the veteran pacer Mohit Sharma, who won the Player of the Match award for his stunning figures of 3/25.

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Shubman Gill elaborated: “(On Mohit) He’s such an experienced player, especially on wickets like these. He comes in day in day out, he practises his skills and he’s so skilled. It’s not easy in this heat to bowl four overs back-to-back, sometimes three overs back-to-back. But he comes in, bowls those yorkers, slower ones and mixes it so well. The credit has to go to him for practising those skills and to be able to have the confidence to execute them in the match. In this heat, wherever we play in the day match, it’s easier to score with the new ball. Once the ball gets old and the wickets gets slow, it’s difficult to hit those sixes, especially on the longer side and that was our plan – to be able to let them hit the slower ones on the longer side.”

Meanwhile, GT captain got out in the 10th over during the run-chase while trying to smash the ball for a boundary but was caught as well. When he was asked about his dismissal, Shubman Gill added that he backed his shot, but was fine with his dismissal as well. However, he also praised the team for doing a great job against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). He also gave an update on David Miller, saying that he didn’t have any major injury and was suffering cramps as well.

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“(On his dismissal) The ball was there to be hit, I was just backing my shot, but the ball hit the bottom and it didn’t bounce as much as I expected it to be but that’s fine. In T20, you have to always keep your options open and if the ball is there, you have to go for it,” Shubman Gill concluded. “Once we saw how our spinners were bowling, we thought 160-170 would be a good score. Credit to the bowlers how they came in and restricted them to that total. Everybody knows their roles in terms of batting or bowling, Sai has been playing well, Wriddhi bhai has been doing what Wriddhi bhai does and it was important for us to be able to get Miller back in form. Just cramps (on Miller’s status).”