MUMBAI: No opening partnership in this edition of the IPL has come close to what the pair of Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan has delivered. They may not be among the most aggressive of openers like Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh and Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head. Nor does any of them tee off from the word go like Phil Salt does alongside Virat Kohli for RCB or Mitchell Marsh does when he bats with Aiden Markram for LSG.
On the contrary, they play at a similar tempo, but their measured and minimum-risk approach has served Gujarat Titans well. They have maximised scoring opportunities whenever they have been presented. The GT pair has logged 628 runs in 10 innings with six fifty-plus stands. Easily the most prolific in this IPL season.
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If one of them fails to click, Jos Buttler comes in at No. 3 to keep the pressure on the opponents. Buttler has scored 470 runs in 10 matches at a strike rate of 169.06. All three put together have scored 75 per cent of the runs that GT have scored this season. While GT banks on their top three, an area of concern for them is that those batting below them have hardly got a decent hit.
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But for Vikram Solanki, GT director of cricket, that isn’t a concern. While he agreed that the middle order hasn’t got the “batting time,” he assured that “there are plenty of guys that can come and do the job.”
MI coach Mahela Jayawardene acknowledged that stopping GT’s top three will be “a challenge” that the bowling unit will have, and they “will have to work towards that.” GT will once again bank on them to get off to a solid start when they face the high-flying Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday. MI have won six matches on the trot to push themselves into the reckoning for the playoffs. Both teams have 14 points, but GT have played 10 matches compared to MI’s 11.
On the contrary, they play at a similar tempo, but their measured and minimum-risk approach has served Gujarat Titans well. They have maximised scoring opportunities whenever they have been presented. The GT pair has logged 628 runs in 10 innings with six fifty-plus stands. Easily the most prolific in this IPL season.
Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel.
If one of them fails to click, Jos Buttler comes in at No. 3 to keep the pressure on the opponents. Buttler has scored 470 runs in 10 matches at a strike rate of 169.06. All three put together have scored 75 per cent of the runs that GT have scored this season. While GT banks on their top three, an area of concern for them is that those batting below them have hardly got a decent hit.
Who's that IPL player?
But for Vikram Solanki, GT director of cricket, that isn’t a concern. While he agreed that the middle order hasn’t got the “batting time,” he assured that “there are plenty of guys that can come and do the job.”
MI coach Mahela Jayawardene acknowledged that stopping GT’s top three will be “a challenge” that the bowling unit will have, and they “will have to work towards that.” GT will once again bank on them to get off to a solid start when they face the high-flying Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday. MI have won six matches on the trot to push themselves into the reckoning for the playoffs. Both teams have 14 points, but GT have played 10 matches compared to MI’s 11.
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