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Gujarat Titans have continued their winning streak in IPL 2022, by defeating PBKS in a last-ball thriller. Gujarat skipper Hardik Pandya winning the toss as expected invited Punjab to bat first and they posted a humongous total of 189/9 on board with the help of electrifying knock from 64(27) from Liam Livingstone and crucial 10th wicket partnership between Rahul Chahar and Arshdeep Singh. Jitesh Sharma also played a good cameo of 23 runs in his short stay. Rashid Khan was pick of the bowlers for Gujarat as once again he stunned with his impressive bowling performance of 3/22 and picked the key wicket of Livingstone. Shikhar Dhawan also played a key role for Punjab with bat but couldn't convert it big in terms of S.R or runs.
Gujarat Titans in the chase were looking pretty good as Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan was playing a flamboyant innings to help his team chase a herculean task of 190 runs in the 2nd innings. The 20-year-old youngster impressed everyone with his strong batting technique in his debut IPL game itself and ended up scoring 35 runs. Skipper Hardik Pandya smashed a brilliant 27 before getting out in an unfortunate manner while the player of the match Shubman Gill had all shots in his book and scored a sensational 96 with bat which set the platform for his team to win easily. In the death overs Punjab came back into the match as required run rate kept increasing but unexpected performance from Rahul Tewatia sealed the game for Gujarat from nowhere. When 12 runs was needed off last two balls for victory, Tewatia smashed two consecutive sixes off Odean Smith to finish off the things in style.
Numbers and stats from PBKS vs GT game:
2 - Rahul Tewatia became only second batsman in IPL to hit a six off last ball to win the game when six runs were needed in last ball for their team to win the match.
Smashing two sixes off last two balls to win the IPL match when 12 runs was needed off 2 balls to win:
MS Dhoni vs PBKS, 2016
Rahul Tewatia vs PBKS, 2022
Hitting six of the last ball when five (or) more runs were needed to win the game:
Dwayne Bravo vs KKR, 2012
MS Dhoni vs PBKS, 2016
KS Bharat vs RCB, 2021
Rahul Tewatia vs PBKS, 2022
3 - Gujarat Titans have become 3rd IPL franchise to win their first 3 IPL matches in debut season itself.
IPL franchises to win their first 3 games in debut IPL season:
Chennai Super Kings in 2008
Gujarat Lions in 2016
Gujarat Titans in 2022
4 - Shikhar Dhawan has been dismissed for the fourth time by Rashid Khan in IPL.
Batsman to be dismissed most times by Rashid Khan in IPL:
Shikhar Dhawan - 4
Chris Gayle - 3
KL Rahul - 3
AB de Villiers - 3
Suresh Raina - 3
Jos Buttler - 3
Moeen Ali - 3
Shikhar Dhawan vs Rashid Khan in IPL:
Inns - 6
Runs - 41
Balls - 44
Wickets - 4
4s :1 ; 6s : 1
21 - Liam Livingstone smashed his fifty from just 21 balls and it remains to be second fastest fifty in this IPL edition so far.
Fastest fifty in IPL 2022 so far:
Pat Cummins - 14 balls vs MI in Pune
Liam Livingstone -21 balls vs GT in Mumbai-Brabourne
Evin Lewis - 23 balls vs CSK in Mumbai-Brabourne
27 - Rahul Chahar and Arshdeep Singh had 27 runs partnership for 10th wicket.
Highest 10th wicket partnership in IPL:
Tom Curran-Ankit Rajpoot : 31* vs KKR in Dubai, 2020
Munaf Patel-Siddharth Trivedi : 29* vs DC in Bloemfontein, 2009
Harry Gurney-Andre Russell : 29* vs CSK in Chennai, 2019
Umesh Yadav-Varun Chakravarthy : 27 vs RCB in Mumbai - DY Patil, 2022
Rahul Chahar-Arshdeep Singh : 27* vs GT in Mumbai - Brabourne, 2022
96 - Shubman Gill recorded his highest score (96) in T20s.
Shubman Gill's highest score in T20s:
96 vs PBKS in Mumbai - Brabourne, 2022
84 vs DC in Pune, 2022
78 vs Mumbai in Surat, 2019 - SMAT
Gill has broken his own record of highest T20 score twice in the two back-to-back IPL matches that he played.