Gujarat beat Rajasthan by 7 wickets to make it to the final David Miller played a brilliant innings

Gujarat Titans has reached the final of IPL 2022. In the first qualifier, Gujarat Titans beat Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets. Rajasthan team scored 188 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. David Miller and Hardik Pandya made a century partnership while batting with a bang in the match. Thanks to this, Gujarat achieved the target in 19.3 overs for the loss of three wickets.

Gujarat needed 16 runs to win in the last over. David Miller hit three sixes in the opening three balls of famous Krishna to take the team to the final.

Miller's stormy innings

David Miller played a wonderful innings against Rajasthan. He made 68 runs in just 38 balls. His strike rate was 178.95. He hit 3 fours and 5 sixes in the match. At the same time, Hardik Pandya also played well with him. He scored 40 runs in just 27 balls. 5 fours came off his bat. There was a partnership of 106 runs in 61 balls between the two.

Shubman and Wade's great partnership

After the first wicket fell early, Shubman Gill and Matthew Wade put on a brilliant 43-ball 71 partnership for Gujarat. After this, Shubman, playing 35 runs in 21 balls, was run out. Shubman wanted to take two runs off Ashwin's ball. He also called Matthew Wade for two runs, but Wade stopped after coming a short distance.

At the same time, Shubman had reached half the pitch. Padikkal took advantage of it and bowled a brilliant throw. Hetmyer made no mistake and runs out Shubman. After the dismissal of Shubman, Matthew Wade also could not bat for long and he too scored 35 runs and was caught by Jos Buttler off Obed McCoy.

Saha's account did not even open

Chasing the target of 189 runs, the Gujarat team got off to a poor start and Trent Boult gave them a jolt on the second ball of the first over. Wriddhiman Saha, who was in excellent form, could not even open his account and lost wickets. Wicketkeeper Sanju Samson took his easy catch.

covered butler

Once again Jos Buttler batted with a bang for Rajasthan and scored 89 runs in just 56 balls. 12 fours and 2 sixes came from his bat.

Carmati Khan's economical bowling

In the first qualifier match, Rashid Khan gave only 15 runs in 4 overs while bowling amazingly. Even though he did not get any wicket in the match, but he did not allow the Rajasthan batsmen to hit big shots. His economy was only 3.80.

Hardik clean bowled Padikkal

Devdutt Padikkal was looking good in the match. He also scored 28 runs in 20 balls, but in the 15th over, Hardik Pandya made him clean bowled. Padikkal wanted to pull off Pandya's short off length ball, but the ball took the inside edge of his bat and hit the stumps. Padikkal looked quite disappointed after being bowled. The touch in which he was seen. It seemed that he would play a big innings, but it did not happen.

Samson could not take advantage of a good start

Rajasthan captain Sanju Samson got a good start in the match, but he could not convert it into a big innings. He scored 47 runs in 26 balls. His bat hit 5 fours and 3 sixes. Samson's strike rate was 180.76.

Sai Kishore took the wicket of Sanju. In the 10th over, Samson wanted to hit a six on long on by making room off Sai, but the ball did not go very far and Alzarri Joseph took his catch at the boundary.

Yashasvi's bat did not run

Rajasthan opener Yashasvi Jaiswal could not do much in the first qualifier and was dismissed for 3 runs in 8 balls. Yash Dayal took his wicket. Yashasvi wanted to make a backfoot drive to the ball going outside the off-stump, but the ball took the edge of the bat and wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha took a simple catch of Yashasvi.

Playing XI of both the teams

Gujarat - Wriddhiman Saha, Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade, Hardik Pandya, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Yash Dayal, Alzarri Joseph, Mohammed Shami

Rajasthan - Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Trent Boult, Pranand Krishna, Yuzvendra Chahal, Obed McCoy