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GT vs CSK IPL 2023 Final : Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Gujarat Titans (GT) by five wickets in rain-hit thriller to win their fifth IPL title in a row at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Monday (May 29). The summit clash was stopped due to heavy rain after first three balls were bowled in CSK’s innings. After a huge delay of rain, the revised target for Chennai was 171 in 15 overs; 4 overs of powerplay and a maximum of 3 overs per bowler, with both time-outs intact.
Earlier, MS Dhoni won the toss and invited Gujarat Titans to bat first in Ahmedabad. The home team gained upper hand and momentum right from the start of their innings with openers Shubman Gill and Wriddhiman Saha providing a quick start. Chahar dropped Shubman Gill on 2, literally a dolly. After that, Gill went on to hammer some remarkable fours and sixes, helping GT attain 30 runs off the 3rd and 4th over combined. From here on, GT gained the momentum they wanted to set a big first innings total vs mighty CSK. Jadeja, one of the best fielders of all time, fumbled to miss a run-out chance but in the very same over, he foxed Gill to get CSK their first-ever breakthrough, courtesy of a lightning stumping from legend MS Dhoni.
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That missed run-out chance however proved to be too expensive for CSK as Saha went on to score a fifty but it was uncapped Indian batter Sai Sudharsan’s batting heroics that was the real game-changer. Sai kept hitting boundaries, irrespective of the bowler he faced. Sadly, he missed out on scoring a well-deserved hundred but did remarkably well. Chasing the 215-run target in an IPL final was always a mammoth task for CSK. The total set by GT for CSK in first innings is the highest total in an IPL final till date. KKR’s chasing down 200 against Punjab in 2014 is the highest total that has been chased in an IPL Final.