LSG vs GT

7:33 PM local time and IST: So that will be all from Lucknow today. The action has already shifted to Mumbai, where the hosts, Mumbai Indians, are going up against Royal Challengers Bengaluru. You can click here and switch to the live action of that match. For now, this is Bidipto taking your leave. Keep following Sportskeeda! 

Prasidh Krishna (Player of the Match, 4/28 in 4 overs): "The most important thing was the victory for us. We always wanted to take points off this game, and my wickets are just by-products of how well the other bowlers have bowled. We've played a lot of cricket to understand situations, and our dressing room has lots of experienced heads to fall back on. We do have to bowl a lot of slower balls in the nets to feel good about bowling them in the match, but, it helps when they come off. I was a bit tired bowling in the heat in the afternoon, but since we've won, all is taken care of!" 

Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans captain): "The way we bowled in the power play was impressive! And the bowling through the middle-overs was good too. When Rashid (Khan) gets us back in the game and bowls like only he can, it makes my life as captain a lot easier! I think in the 1st 6 overs, it's difficult to do the simple things. But today, Siraj did that. Kept it simple. But even KG (Kagiso Rabada) bowled well, his lengths were good. He was unlucky to get hit though. In the last 2 or 3 overs we gave away 10 to 15 runs more. But, at the start, we would have taken 160. Back-to-back fifties for Jos (Buttler) and me, means that we are doing okay." 

Jos Buttler (60 runs off 37 balls): "I've been around for a while, and, I've been through a lean patch in the last few months. So, it's nice to be among the runs. I've been focusing on watching the ball closely, a few technical glitches here and there are being taken care of too, I've been around for 15 years, so, I kind of know what to do. Matthew Hayden has been around to tell me some of the most simple things in batting, and for a great player to do so, is just great! Good to have my family here with me, and I hope to keep delighting everyone with my runs." 

Rishabh Pant (Lucknow Super Giants captain): "(On whether they fell short of runs) Definitely not enough runs. They bowled well too, but, not enough runs. 170-180 would be a good score, but, they kept getting wickets. On a wicket like this, there were opportunities in the game for us in both innings, we didn't take them. Our batting line-up is a great one, but, it's still early days and we back our men. We know what the batters are capable of, so, we hope that they will come good soon enough." 

7:07 PM local time and IST: Gujarat Titans win by 7 wickets with 8 balls to spare!

Jos Buttler 60 (37) | Prasidh Krishna - 4/28 (4)
Aiden Markram 30 (21) | Prince Yadav - 1/31 (4)

Calm, composed and collective! A middling total is sometimes best chased like this, and this may well also be termed as the Gujarat Titans way!

The only way Lucknow Super Giants could come back into the contest, was by taking wickets. But, they could take only three. Yes, a few chances did get created, but on the whole, GT were too good when it came to pacing the chase. 

First up, a partnership which was steady and got to 45 in 5 overs, before getting dislodged. Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill were pretty solid, yet, pretty straightforward in the way to go about this start. 

Then came a sublime 84-run 2nd wicket stand in 58 balls, between captain Gill and a resurgent Jos Buttler! Both registered half-centuries, both went about their work without taking too many risks. Once again, in very much GT way! 

The LSG bowling was unable to penetrate their defense and the moments of inspiration in the field, were missing as well. Rishabh Pant was unable to come up with clutch captaincy, either! 

Still, there were some decent bowling efforts from Prince Yadav, Shami and Digvesh Singh Rathi. But on the whole, a better effort in the field was required for the hosts. 

In the end though, some key runs from Washington Sundar and the finishing presence of Rahul Tewatia, got GT home! 

18.4 Aiden Markram to Washington Sundar, GUJARAT TITANS WIN TWO MATCHES IN A ROW! Full on off-stump. Washington gets line, then stays slightly leg-side of it, and strokes it through cover for a single, that brings up the winning run away from home, again! 

18.3 Aiden Markram to Washington Sundar, on the fuller side of good length on off-and-middle. Worked to the mid-wicket area on the up off the front foot, no run.

18.2 Aiden Markram to Rahul Tewatia, OHHH HO! Good length and around off. The attempted reverse-sweep gets beaten, and Pant gets beaten too, for a bye. Scores level. 

18.1 Aiden Markram to Rahul Tewatia, OHHH DEAR! IT'S FOUR RUNS! Full and on off-stump. A lofted stroke with the turn off the front foot. Pooran at long-off tries to go for the catch to his right. He misses and gives up on the chase. But then, he finds that there is time to get there and stop the boundary. But by the time they he gets there, it is a boundary! 

17.5 Prince Yadav to Washington Sundar, SIX RUNS! Short on leg-and-middle. Washington goes deeper in the crease again and gets inside the line to hook it away over fine-leg! 

17.4 Prince Yadav to Washington Sundar, FOUR RUNS! Full but on the shoes. Washington goes deeper in the crease and flicks it away with a bent back knee, for a boundary to long-leg!