The victory of Gujarat Titans in IPL 2025 continues in IPL 2025 with the best innings of Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan and then Gujarat bowlers. In the 39th match of IPL 2025 on Monday, GT defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 39 runs in his house. This win has scored 12 points in eight matches of Titans and has taken a two -point lead at the top of the points table. At the same time, the team of Knight Riders is in seventh position with six points.
After losing the toss, the Gujarat Titans batted first and scored 198 runs in 20 overs at the loss of 3 wickets. In response to this, KKR was able to score 159 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs.
Knight Riders, who came out to chase the target, lost the wicket of Rahmanullah Gurbaz (01) on the fifth ball of the innings, which Mohammad Siraj did LBW. Opener Sunil Narayan (17) and captain Rahane then carried on the innings. Rahane also hit two fours on the famous Krishna after hitting Siraj and Ishant Sharma. Narayan hit Siraj’s consecutive balls and hit a six but caught Rahul Tewatia off Rashid Khan.
Knight Riders scored 45 runs for two wickets in Powerplay. The bowlers, led by Rashid, curb the run pace in the middle overs, so that the team of Knight Riders could score 68 runs for two wickets in 10 overs. Rahane tried to increase the run speed by hitting a fours and six on Washington Sundar, but Sai Kishore sent Venkatesh Iyer (14) to the pavilion. Rahane completed a half -century off 36 balls with one run off Washington’s ball but stumped a ball after Butler on a wide ball. He hit five fours and a six in his 36 -ball innings. As soon as Andre Russell came, Washington completed a century of team runs in 13 overs with fours and sixes off consecutive balls.
Knight Riders needed 85 runs to win in the last five overs. Rashid stumped Russell (21) by stumping the hands of Butler and gave a big blow to Knight Riders while the famous sent Ramandeep Singh (01) and Moin Ali (00) to the pavilion. Raghuvanshi hit Rashid in the 18th over while Rinku Singh (17) hit a six but despite this Knight Riders needed 60 runs in the final two overs and the team remained far away from the target.
Earlier, while batting, Gill and Sudarshan made the team a cautious start by adding 45 runs in Powerplay. Sudarshan hit Moin Ali’s first four of the innings and then Vaibhav Arora also hit two fours while Gill welcomed Harshit Rana with two consecutive fours. Gill hit a six and two fours off consecutive balls, targeting Moin in the seventh over. Gill completed a half -century off 34 balls with a run off Harshit’s ball in the 11th over. Sudarshan took the team’s score to 100 runs with a six in the same over and then hit a half -century in 33 balls with two runs off the next ball.
Rahane then handed over the ball to Andre Russell who broke the partnership by catching Sudarshan on his second ball by wicketkeeper Gurbaz. Butler started Russell with three consecutive fours and then the team scored 139 runs in 15 overs with two fours on Harshit. Gill took the team’s score to 150 runs in the 16th over with two consecutive fours on Varun Chakraborty. Gill hit a six and four off Arora’s consecutive balls in the next over but caught Rinku Singh on the next ball.
Harshit sent Rahul Tewatia to the pavilion without opening an account in the next over. Butler hit two consecutive fours in the final over of Arora’s innings, while M Shah Rukh Khan (11 not out) hit a six and took the team’s score close to 200 runs. Arora (one wicket for 44 runs) and Harshit (one wicket for 45 runs) proved to be quite expensive. Apart from these two, Russell (one wicket for 13 runs) also took a wicket.
