Titans complete easy win over SRH
Pat Cummins won the toss in Ahmedabad, but unlike the ODI World Cup final, he did not make the right call as Sunrisers Hyderabad's score of 162 for 8 was comfortably chased by Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad to make it 11 wins out of 12 for home teams in IPL 2024.
Noor Ahmad, Mohit Sharma and former Sunriser Rashid Khan suffocated the big-hitting team in orange to keep them down to a below-par score, and as the surface got better in the evening, the Titans rode on contributions from Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan and David Miller to see them through.
Noor, Rashid rock Sunrisers
An afternoon start in Ahmedabad promised a dry surface with help for spinners, and that's why Cummins wanted Sunrisers to make first use of the pitch. Expecting the same, the Titans dropped fast bowler Spencer Johnson to give left-arm wristspinner Noor his first outing of the season.
Noor struck first over when he got a googly to rattle Travis Head's stumps right after the powerplay before the opener could do heavy damage. His googly was particularly effective on this surface, bowling 13 of them and only conceding ten runs. His spell of 1 for 32, numbers partly ruined by some late hits from Sunrisers, gave Titans control from one end as the other bowlers rattled off the others.
Noor's bowling also lifted his senior Afghanistan team-mate Rashid's game. Rashid conceded 49 against Chennai Super Kings in their last game and started Sunday's spell with a 15-run over courtesy Abhishek Sharma's twin sixes.
However, Rashid returned strongly to keep Heinrich Klaasen relatively quiet, and a skiddy ball from the wristspinner accounted him for a 13-ball 24 in the 14th over. Rashid then made an equal contribution next over in Aiden Markram's dismissal when he dived forward to complete a difficult catch running in from long-on.
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