Live Report - Gill, Sudharsan hundreds give GT 231

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Miller nails a direct hit to run Ravindra out for 1 on the last ball of the first over. Sandeep Warrier, who has replaced Sai Sudharsan as an Impact Player, draws a leading edge from Rahane, which is taken by Tewatia at mid-off. Warrier wins the battle of Impact Players.

Warrier then greets Mitchell with a bumper. CSK have their task cut out.

At one point, 250 or even 260 looked a frighteningly realistic prospect for GT. But CSK have done well at the death to restrict them to 231 for 3. Deshpande and Thakur were impressing with their defensive bowling, hiding the ball away from the hitting arcs of the GT batters. The two seamers had combined figures of 8-0-58-2. Just 41 runs off the last five overs. No boundaries at all in the last three overs.

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Shubman Gill and B Sai Sudharsan are no Travishek. They're more orthodox batters, but they've been just as brutal with their hitting this evening in Ahmedabad.

Gill was the first to get to his hundred off 50 balls. In the same over, Sudharsan joined him there off 50 balls too. They've hit the IPL's 100th and 101st tons.

Just when it looked like there would be no stopping them, Sai and Gill hole out in a space of five balls. Deshpande has done a fine job for his team tonight, coming away with 4-0-33-2. But ShubSu walk away with the joint-highest opening stand in the IPL.

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The GT captain reaches the landmark by shovelling Simarjeet Singh for a six over long leg. Gill has got there off just 25 balls. He celebrates the landmark by flat-batting a four straight past Simarjeet for four more.

Mind you, it wasn't a bad ball again from Simarjeet. But Gill is so gifted that he can make good balls like so very bad.

It's just the 11th over of the innings, but Gill and Sai have forced CSK into doing death bowling. Daz Mitchell was bowling wide cutters away from the swinging arcs, while Simarjeet is now bowling wide yorkers with a packed off-side field.

Can GT reach 250 in front of their home crowd? The ball is flying in Ahmedabad.

Our statsguru Sampath Bandarupalli has dug this out for you Fewest innings to 1000 runs at a venue in men's T20s: 19 - Shubman Gill, Ahmedabad 22 - Chris Gayle, Bengaluru 22 - David Warner, Hyderabad 22 - Aaron Finch, The Oval 22 - Babar Azam, Rawalpindi 22 - Mohammad Rizwan, Karachi

He played an absolute blinder the last time these two sides met in Ahmedabad, in that final. He has grown from strength to strength since. He had a stint with Surrey, with some help from Vikram Solani, GT's director of cricket, and won the LV= Insurance County Championship title with them. He then went onto make his international debut for India.

It initially looked like he was riding in Gill's slipstream, but he has accelerated to a 32-ball half-century. Jadeja is left nursing figures of 2-0-29-0. The presence of Sudharsan at the top and Miller in the middle can help GT counter CSK's left-arm fingerspinners.

Along the way, Sudharsan (25 innings) has become the fastest Indian to 1000 IPL runs. He goes past Tendulkar (31 innings) and Gaikwad (31 innings).

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They have added 58 together in the first six overs. Only once have GT scored more runs in the powerplay in IPL 2024, when they had hit 67 against DC in Delhi last month.

Gill, in particular, is looking in sublime touch. Simarjeet Singh bowls a blameless back-of-a-length delivery just outside off in the last over of the powerplay. But Gill makes it look like a bad ball by swatting it over mid-on for six. Already the shot of the day for me.

In the next over, Gill short-arm jabs Jadeja between deep midwicket and wide long-on for four more. Sudharsan is also ticking along nicely at the other end. GT are 72 for 0 in seven overs.

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This is the first over bowled by Mitch Santner. The left-arm fingerspinner started by bowling away-swinging arm balls to the left-handed Sai Sudharsan. But Gill shows more attacking enterprise and picks him away for a square-driven four and a lofted six over mid-on.

Santner has been pulled out of the attack after just one over. Thakur gets the new-ish ball and Sudharsan greets him with a lofted six of his own. The ball flies over the extra-cover boundary. GT are 32 for 3 in three overs.

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2 No of tosses Gaikwad has won in 12 games this IPL

Stop the press. Gaikwad finally wins a toss.Deepak Chahar, who didn't travelled to Dharamsala, has linked up with the CSK side in Ahmedabad, but it appears like he isn't fit to return to action. CSK make one change: Ravindra replaces Gleeson.

Two changes for GT. Gill says that Saha is out injured, so Wade returns to the team. Little makes way for Tyagi.

CSK XI: 1 Ruturaj Gaikwad(capt), 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Daz Mitchell, 4 Shivam Dube, 5 Moeen Ali, 6 Ravindra Jadeja, 7 MS Dhoni(wk),8 Mitchell Santner,9 Shardul Thakur,10 Tushar Deshpande, 11 Simarjeet Singh

Impact Subs bench: Ajinkya Rahane, Shaik Rasheed, Aravelly Avanish, Sameer Rizvi, Mukesh Choudhary

GT XI: 1 Shubman Gill (capt), 2 B Sai Sudharsan, 3 M Shahrukh Khan, 4 David Miller, 5 Matthew Wade (wk), 6 Rahul Tewatia, 7 Rashid Khan, 8 Noor Ahmad, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Mohit Sharma, 11 Kartik Tyagi

Impact Subs bench: Abhinav Manohar, Sandeep Warrier, BR Sharath, Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav

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Gaikwad has lost 10 out of 11 tosses so far in IPL 2024. "Even his wife has had something to say" about his wretched luck at the toss. Can he turn it around in Ahmedabad today?

This is what happened when CSK faced GT the last time in Ahmedabad in the IPL 2023 final. It was a chaotic three-day T20 final, remember? It's all history now. A lot has changed with the two teams since. The bottom-placed GT are hoping not to capsize today. A loss today will put them out of contention for the knockouts. CSK, on the other hand, are better-placed than GT to make the playoffs, but they need to win to simplify their passage to Ahmedabad again for the qualifiers. Can they cope with the absence of their first-choice fast bowlers Pathirana, Mustafizur and Chahar?