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In the first qualifier match of the Indian Premier League season 16 played on Tuesday, Chennai Super Kings defeated Gujarat Titans by 15 runs to make it to the finals. Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya looked disappointed after the defeat against CSK. Hardik Pandya reveals the mistakes that prevented Gujarat Titans from beating CSK
Hardik Pandya admitted that some big mistakes have been made by his team. The captain of Gujarat Titans said that we were very good in bowling. But some mistakes cost us dearly. We spent 15 runs more than the way we bowled. To a large extent, we did the right things. Our bowling was good in the middle overs. We were executing our plans. Hardik Pandya further said that, we do not need to think much. We have one more chance to reach the finals. We’ll look into that. This season has been very good for us.
another chance for gujarat
Pandya has praised Dhoni a lot. Pandya said, ‘The best thing about Dhoni is that he can use the bowlers very well. They decide that you have to score 10 extra runs to register a win. If we manage to win the next match, nothing can be better than facing CSK in the final. It is not good to have regrets in life. We went for 15 more runs and we couldn’t do much better with the bat. We have to come back after two days and think about making it to the finals. Significantly, Gujarat Titans had secured the Qualifier 1 ticket by topping the points table. However, Gujarat has a chance to play Qualifier 2. Qualifier-2 will be played on 26 May.
Gujarat failed to chase down the runs
In the qualifier match played between Gujarat and Chennai, Gujarat won the toss and decided to bowl first. Coming out to bat, Chennai scored 172 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. On behalf of the team, Rituraj Gaikwad played the biggest inning of 60 runs with the help of 7 fours and 1 six. Chasing the runs, the Gujarat team got all out for 157 runs in 20 overs.