Gujarat has no match in the run chase, defeat is decided by RCB losing the toss

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The last league match of IPL 2023 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans. It was a do or die match for Faf du Plessis’s team. Actually, if RCB had won this match, it would have directly reached the playoffs, but in this match, Gujarat defeated Bangalore by 6 wickets. This shattered RCB’s dream of winning the title for the 16th consecutive year. After playing the first innings in this match, RCB scored 197 runs in 20 overs with the help of Virat Kohli’s strong century. In response, Shubman Gill scored a century for Gujarat Titans and won his team before five balls of the match. However, Gill gave victory to Gujarat by hitting a six off the first ball of the 20th over, but do you know that even before the match started, RCB’s defeat was decided.

Actually, Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis lost the toss in this do or die match. Gujarat captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl first. With this, the script of RCB’s defeat started. We are saying this because Gujarat Titans have no match in the run chase. Gujarat Titans, who made their debut in the Indian Premier League from IPL 2022, have performed brilliantly in the record run chase. The team has won 13 out of 17 matches chasing runs since last year. These figures only show that RCB’s defeat was decided after losing the toss.

Such was the condition of the match

Batting first, RCB scored 197 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. For Bangalore, Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 101 in 61 balls. During this, 13 fours and a six came out of his bat. Faf scored 28 runs off 19 balls. Apart from this, Glenn Maxwell 11, Dinesh Karthik 00 and Mahipal Lomror were dismissed after scoring one run. Shubman Gill then played a brilliant match-winning innings of 104 runs off 52 balls to help Gujarat chase down the target of 198 runs. During this, Gill hit 5 fours and 8 sixes. Apart from this, Vijay Shankar played an important inning of 53 runs in 35 balls. Shankar hit seven fours and two sixes.