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County Championship. 2025. Results
19/01/2025 23:00
Derbyshire, Glamorgan County, Gloucestershire County, Kent Spitfires, Lancashire, Leicestershire Foxes, Middlesex, Northamptonshire
W1

26

W2

11

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    The opening salvo from Gill and Sudharsan
The opening salvo from Gill and Sudharsan
Shubman Gill started well. Source: BCCI

The opening salvo from Gill and Sudharsan

Gujarat Titans 231 for 3 beat Chennai Super Kings 196 for 8 by 35 runs.

Gill and Sudharsan are not Travishek. They are more orthodox top-order batsmen. But on a bouncy, red-surface Ahmedabad pitch on Friday, they showed they can be just as destructive with the bat.

It was Gill who set the tone early, hitting left-arm fingerspinner Mitchell Santner for four and six in a 14-run opening over. Then, in the final over of the powerplay, Gill played arguably the shot of the day. When Simarjeet Singh bowled an immaculate back-of-a-length delivery at off, Gill used his gifts to make it look like a bad ball and smashed it over mid-on for a six.

Sudharsan, becalmed in the early exchanges, then caught fire, hitting Ravindra Jadeja for 21 off seven balls at a strike rate of 300. The presence of the spin-hitting Sudharsan meant that Jadeja could bowl no more than two overs on the night. Ruturaj Gaikwad turned to Daryl Mitchell's cutters but was dismissed for 4-0-52-0.

Sudharsan picked up the pace to share the same score with his captain at the end of the 16th over: 96 off 48 balls. Gill was the first to bring up his hundred with a four and four balls later Sudharsan joined him for a six.

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