GT vs RR

Ravi Bishnoi (Man of the Match) ): I have worked a lot on my game, I tried to bowl a good length. If you see, even when I was hit today it was off the fuller ball. Worked a lot emotionally, physically and mentally .Rahul Tewatia's wicket was my favorite as he is known to be a finisher in such situations.

Riyan Parag (Rajasthan Royals Captain): It was just incredible. I took a challenge thinking that let's go full and fast. It's insane that they the bowlers executed as we wanted. Dhruv Jurel asked me to go Jofra on the 19th so credit to him for that. If it comes out it's good, if it doesn't we go again. We have not done a lot of justice to the talent he has got. He has to bat Number three and hopefully this is the start for him. We will focus on what we need to do against Mumbai.

Jofra Archer: (on Rashid Khan's catch in the last over) Inititally when he hit it, I thought it went for six. But then I saw the trajectory, ran for it, got there and thankfully it went in. As a fellow bowler, you want to know that the fielders are backing you. Everyone fielded well today everything that could have gone right on the field went right for us. I did not take the ball from him, Riyan changed his mind. He was to bowl the 19th and me the 20th but whosoever does that the job is to leave as many runs as they can. Practice and a game can be two different things. It is alright, we just need to adapt to the conditions. Some days we have to bowl pace on and some days we have to go pace off. (on conditions tonight) The slower ones were not holding in, we had to go pace on

Rashid Khan (Gujarat Titans captain): We bowled really well. The way they started, to restrict them under 210 was a great effort. We started well with the bat, the openers have us a great start as well but we lost wickets in the middle. On a wicket like this, 9-10 an over is not a hard job but we lost the momentum. The boundaries were coming easily but we lost few quick wickets in the 12th and 13th over whichput us on the backfoot. (Middle order woes) Everyone has their own game plans, know what needs to be done, everything is written on the board but I feel that it is still early days in the tournament, we learn and move on to the next game. (Discussions between him and Rabada in the last over) The discussion was just to find the one boundary, we knew it would do the job for us but Tushar bowled really well. The one ball he missed his mark, I should have put it away. (on Shubman Gill) He is good, just a muscle spasm, he should be back fr the next game.

Rajasthan Royals hold their nerve to restrict Gujarat Titans to 204/8 and seal a thrilling six-run victory.
Batting Highlights (Gujarat Titans):
Sai Sudharsan 73 (44) | Rashid Khan 24 (16) | Kagiso Rabada 23* (16)
Bowling Figures (Rajasthan Royals):
Ravi Bishnoi 4/41 (4) | Tushar Deshpande 1/24 (3) | Nandre Burger 1/29 (3)
Chasing a stiff target of 211, Gujarat Titans got off to a strong start with Sai Sudharsan leading the charge. His fluent 73 kept the chase on track, as he found the boundary regularly and maintained a healthy scoring rate.

However, regular wickets in the middle overs dented momentum, with Ravi Bishnoi turning the game decisively through a brilliant four-wicket haul. Despite late resistance from Rashid Khan and Kagiso Rabada, the required rate climbed under pressure.

With tight bowling at the death, Rajasthan Royals held their composure to restrict the Titans to 204/8, falling just short in a high-scoring thriller.

19.6 Tushar Deshpande to Rashid Khan, RAJASTHAN ROYALS WIN BY 6 RUNS! Take a bow, Tushar Deshpande! Look at him go, he is absolutely pumped, thumps his chest in celebrations and gestures to the ground to indicate that he belongs here. Went for the blockhole once again, was not the inch-perfect yorker but it was still a low full toss outside off, too good for the new man Ashok Sharma who tries to heave it away but can only inside edge it back into his own body and off go the Royals. Ecstasy all around, RR have pulled one out of the hat and stolen the victory out of the jaws of defeat leaving the home side and fans stunned!

19.5 Tushar Deshpande to Rashid Khan, SLICED IN THE AIR, Archer runs a good 10 metres and takes a brilliant catch under pressure! Absolute clutch stuff from RR this, both with the ball and on the field. This was slightly off the mark, landed out of the blockhole outside off, Rashid sliced it and Archer ran to his right from deep point and slides with the ball to take it in his bucket hands. Parag is absolutely stoked, so is Deshpande and GT are slipping away. 7 needed from the final ball, you know the maths!

19.4 Tushar Deshpande to Rashid Khan, holds his nerve, dot ball! Rashid tried to be too funky there, stepped across the off side and tried to dink it over short fine, made no contact as it was in the blockhole again and now the next ball needs to go to the fence

19.3 Tushar Deshpande to Kagiso Rabada, nails another yorker! Just outside off, Rabada digs it out to the bowler's right who dives and gets a hand on it. Once again just a single. 7 needed from 3 now, tense faces everywhere!

19.2 Tushar Deshpande to Rashid Khan, bang in the blockhole, beautifully executed by Deshpande and Rashid somehow manages to carve it out towards third man for a single. 8 from 4 now!

19.1 Tushar Deshpande to Kagiso Rabada, digs out the wide yorker this time out towards deep cover for a single. Rashid back on strike and GT need 9 off 5!

19.1 Tushar Deshpande to Kagiso Rabada, goes for the wide yorker but ends up spilling it past the tramline, need to rebowl that. Extra run for GT as well

18.6 Jofra Archer to Kagiso Rabada, searing full toss, Rabada swings and misses, Jurel fumbles and they sneak in a bye off the final ball. Rabada wants to check the height, we have a review! 

Well below the waits, over 20 cms and that will just be a bye.

More importantly, it will be Rabada on strike for the final over with GT needing 11. Just 4 runs off the 19th over from Archer, aboslute world-class stuff

18.5 Jofra Archer to Kagiso Rabada, full and straight from round the wicket, Rabada drills it back at Archer who fumbles but it does not cost him. Precious dot ball!

18.4 Jofra Archer to Rashid Khan, HUGE APPEAL FOR LBW, a shake of the head from the ump and Archer straightaway wants a review. That is plumb if there was no bat on it. The only thing that would save Rashid here is if he got an inside edge on it. RR have taken it up

Rashid looks at his inside edge of the bat, he is not bothered. UltraEdge reveals a scratch off the inside edge, RR lose a review and Rashid survives!