SSS vs GG

Dinesh Karthik (Southern Superstars captain): They did (show belief). That was the best part of the day. The pitch was pretty hard to bat on. I thought the spinners were better off post the powerplay and was waiting for the pressure to creep up slowly before bringing them on. He (Chatarunga) batted really well. It was a really important innings. He also bowled really well and made it seem easier than it was. Two players, him and Dhawan, looked like they batted on a different track.  (On if the competitive juices flowed again) They did. The keeping was a bit rusty. The batting was fine. I was feeling okay. But more importantly, we won the match.

Chathuranga de Silva is the Legend of the Match, here's what he has to say: We were five wickets down at the halfway stage. Me and DK were talking about building the innings back. It's hard to start because of the bounce and turn. I am used to batting number six and seven. (Did he enjoy Shikhar's wicket?) Of course!

Shikhar Dhawan (Gujarat Greats captain): I feel that at the end I should have gotten my off-spinner bowling another over. They were 80 for 8, and got 140 from there. Gave too many runs over there. We lost too many wickets at the end. Not an easy wicket to bat on for a new batsman. We knew that it's going to turn more and get tougher, the plan was to cash on the first six overs or so. It's very competitive, specially for T20, batting will be tougher, wicket is not suppprting the batsmen, that's where skill comes in. Great feeling, grateful to the fans that they've come and they've appreciated my presence.

End of the match!

Southern Superstars win by 26 runs

Chathuranga de Silva 53 (28) | Pawan Negi (3/13)
Shikhar Dhawan 52 (48) | Manan Sharma (6/17)

The Superstars are stars of making comebacks. After recovering from 88/8 in the first innings, they were defending 140-odd with the opposition at 93/2 at one stage and have won by 26 runs! How did they do it? By bowling 16 overs of spin and only four overs of pace!

Most of those overs of pace came in the powerplay and Shikhar got off to a great start. van Wyk struggled at the other end though and eventually got out to Kedar Jadhav's almost under-arm spin. Spinners kept coming on and on and wickets fell like bowling pins.

Dhawan, under pressure, couldn't counter-attack and Jadhav deserves special credit for it. Suddenly the over-rate went sky-high and, he succumbed to the pressure as well. Razak ran through the tail with his yorkers and it was all done and dusted.

19.6 Suboth Bhati to Liam Plunkett, hard length delivery around off, Plunkett swings at it, doesn't get all of it, but manages to send this towards long on. The fielder out there rushes to his left, collects on the bounce and returns. Southern Super Stars claim the contest by 26 runs!

19.4 Suboth Bhati to Sreesanth, slower ball, into the pitch outside off. Sreesanth runs down the wicket, has a swipe across, connects, but can only fetch a single to mid wicket

19.3 Suboth Bhati to Sreesanth, swing and a miss! On a full length around leg stump, Sreesanth made room for himself, had a hoick, but the ball sneaked past the inside edge

19.2 Suboth Bhati to Sreesanth, full and wide of off, Sreesanth shimmed down the wicket, looked to slice it through the off side but was well away 

19.1 Suboth Bhati to Liam Plunkett, put down! On a hard length around off, Plunkett swung for the moon and skied it off the top edge. Jadhav at backward point ran in hard, actually got to this one but ended up spilling it

18.6 Pawan Negi to Yashpal Singh, YASHPAL DEPARTS! There was no way he was going to connect with anything today - he ran down the wicket rather aimlessly to this flat length delivery on off, had a swipe across the line, got a top edge towards cover, where the catch was taken

Yashpal Singh c Kedar Jadhav b Pawan Negi 5 (12b)