IPL 2023: RCB vs GT, Gujarat Titans won the match by 6 wickets, Bangalore out of playoffs

IPL 2023: RCB vs GT, Gujarat Titans won the match by 6 wickets, Bangalore out of playoffs

In the 70th match of the Indian Premier League, Gujarat Titans defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 6 wickets and showed the way out of the playoffs. Shubman Gill also scored a century for Gujarat in the match and this was also his second consecutive century. Batting first after losing the toss in the match, they scored 197/5 in 20 overs and Gujarat achieved the target of 198 runs given by RCB in the last over itself. Shubman Gill played an unbeaten inning of 104 runs in 52 balls. With the defeat in this match, RCB's dream of winning the IPL trophy has been shattered once again. For the last 15 years, Bangalore has been waiting to win the IPL trophy and this time too it missed out on the title.

The victory of the defending champions was celebrated from Ahmedabad to Mumbai, as Mumbai entered the top-4 with the defeat of Bengaluru. Indians beat Hyderabad by 8 wickets in the first match of the day.

From 2 records, which were made in RCB-GT match.

1. Kohli is the batsman with the most centuries Virat Kohli has become the batsman with the most centuries in IPL. He has scored 7th century in the league. Kohli broke the record of his own team veteran batsman Chris Gayle. Gayle has 6 centuries to his name.

2. Three centuries in a day for the first time for the first time in the history of IPL, three centuries have come in a day. Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli scored centuries in this match, while Cameron Green scored a century in the Mumbai-Hyderabad match.

Gujarat Gill scored a century after Kohli

In this very exciting match, Bangalore opener Virat Kohli (101 not out off 61 balls) scored his second century of the season. Virat's century was answered by Gujarat opener Shubman Gill with his second century of the season. He completed his century in 52 balls, hitting a six off the first ball of the 20th over, although young batsman Gill is five centuries away from Kohli in the list of most hundreds in the league. After the end of the match, Kohli encouraged the young batsman.

Match Analysis

Bengaluru lost due to Gill-Vijay partnership in a do-or-die match, Bengaluru lost to Gill and Vijay Shankar's partnership. The bowlers of the team could not give initial shocks to Gujarat. In such a situation, there were two partnerships for Gujarat at the top order. Gill added 25 runs with Saha, then shared a 123-run partnership with Vijay Shankar for the second wicket. This is where the difference arose.

For Bangalore, Virat Kohli (101 not out off 61 balls) scored a century to bring the team's score close to 200, which was a little short for the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Apart from Kohli, the other batsman could not play a big innings for the team. Captain Faf du Plessis contributed 28, Michael Bracewell 26 and Anuj Rawat contributed 23 runs. Noor Ahmed took 2 wickets for Gujarat. Mohammed Shami, Yash Dayal and Rashid Khan got one wicket each.

Shubman Gill (104 not out off 52 balls) also scored a century for Gujarat, while Vijay Shankar (53 off 35 balls) scored his third fifty of the season. Mohammad Siraj took two wickets for Bengaluru. Harshal Patel and Vijay Kumar Vaishak got one wicket each