Cricket Highlights, 03 May: IPL 2023 (Match 44) – Gujarat Titans vs Delhi Capitals

Gujarat Titans vs Delhi Capitals (Match 44) – Highlights

The match between Delhi Capitals (DC) vs Gujarat Titans (GT) took turns with gaps. As DC, who batted at the beginning, was stopped at 130 runs, GT’s victory became quite certain. But the Capitals made the match exciting by picking up 4 wickets within 32 runs.

The Titans fell a bit behind in the race for victory at the end, but Rahul Tewatia’s three consecutive sixes brought them back into the match again. In the end, DC secured the victory by fighting till the last ball of Ishant Sharma’s over. As a result, Delhi Capitals left the field with a 5-run victory.  

After winning the toss and batting first at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday (May 2), DC scored 130 runs after losing 8 wickets in the allotted 20 overs courtesy of Aman Hakim Khan’s half-century. Hardik Pandya-led Gujarat Titans were able to score 125 runs in response to the Capitals’ 130 runs. Titans bowler Mohammed Shami was selected as the player of the match picking up 4 wickets conceding just 11 runs.

Coming down to chase an easy target, GT’s two openers, Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill returned to the dressing room within 18 runs. Gill scored 6 runs, but Wriddhiman could not score any runs. Hardik was the shield of the team in this match. He stood still in the procession of wickets falling till the last ball.

David Miller failed on the day badly. Even after playing 3 balls, he had to leave the field with zero runs next to his name. Abhinav Manohar accompanied Pandya for a long time as Miller departed. But he got out untimely with 26 off 33 balls.  

Titans needed 33 runs to win in the last two overs, with 5 wickets in hand. Tewatia hit 3 consecutive sixes in the 19th over to bring tension to the match. 21 runs came in that over. As a result, GT needed 12 runs in the last over. 

The victory did not seem difficult with Tewatia scoring 20 off 5 balls and captain Hardik scoring a half-century. Ishant Sharma surprised the team in such a position of the match. Hardik took three runs off his first two balls and the third ball was a dot. Ishant dismissed Tewatia on the fourth ball. 20 runs come from his bat off 7 balls.  

As a result, 9 runs were needed in the last two balls. Rashid Khan could not get more than 3 runs in two balls when he went on strike. Hardik Pandya remained unbeaten at the other end of the wicket getting 59 runs off 53 balls. Chasing a small target, GT stopped at 125 runs for 6 wickets.  

Ishant Sharma and Khaleel Ahmed took the maximum number of two wickets each for DC. Apart from this, Kuldeep Yadav and Anrich Nortje took 1 wicket each.  

Earlier, DC won the toss and went to bat in Gujarat’s home ground and fell under the devastating bowling cannon of Mohammed Shami. They lost 5 wickets in 23 runs. Opener Philip Salt was dismissed on the first ball. Priyam Garg scored 10 runs off 14 balls. Rilee Rossouw was dismissed by Shami for 8 runs off 6 balls. Manish Pandey departed after scoring 1 run.  

Axar Patel and Aman took responsibility for the team in this moment of danger. The two made a 54-ball 50-run partnership. Axar was dismissed for the team’s 73 runs (27 runs off 30 balls). Aman was then accompanied by Ripal Patel. The Capitals got a lot of runs in this pair of Ripple and Aman. The two made a partnership of 53 runs off 27 balls.  

Aman was dismissed in 18.3 overs. He played an innings of 51 runs from 44 balls, hitting an equal number of 3 fours and a sixes before getting back to the pavilion. Apart from Shami, Mohit Sharma took 2 wickets and Rashid Khan took 1 wicket for GT.

Gujarat Titans vs Delhi Capitals Scoreboard

Delhi Capitals – 130/8 (20.0)

Gujarat Titans – 125/6 (20.0)

Result – Delhi Capitals won by 5 runs

Player of the match – Mohammed Shami

Mohammed Shami

Gujarat Titans vs Delhi Capitals Playing XIs