Shubman Gill looked unstoppable in the second Qualifier match between Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians. He smashed his third century of the season off just 49 balls. His century off 49 balls also places him among the fastest centuries in IPL playoffs. Before this, the 23-year-old batter had hit tons against RCB and SRH. He also surpassed Virender Sehwag’s (122 for PBKS in 2014) for the highest individual score in an IPL Playoffs match.
Piyush Chawla dismissed Wriddhiman Saha at a score of 54. But he controlled one side and scored 129 off 60 deliveries before giving a wicket to Akash Madhwal. The right-handed batter was at his fluent best as he scored 7 fours and 10 sixes. Now it became his highest score in the IPL. His previous best was 104 against RCB in the last league match.
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With this hundred GT has set a mammoth target of 235 for Mumbai Indians. Gill completed his first 50 runs in 32 balls. After that, he accelerated his inning and hit three sixes in Madhwal over. He completed his second 50 runs in just 17 balls. Gill is the second batter after Michael Klinger with three hundred in four innings. For the first wicket, he made a 54 runs partnership with Saha in 38 balls. But, he made the highest second-wicket partnership for GT with Sai Sudarshan of 138 runs.
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Gill’s romance with Amhedabad!
Shubman Gill loves to play at the Narendra Modi Stadium. He has already scored T20I and Test centuries at Ahmedabad. Also, his maiden ton against SRH came here. He played 16 matches in the IPL 2024 and scored four fifties, all of which also came in Ahmedabad. Now, He has gone past the 800-run mark in IPL 2024 for the first time in his career. He scored 440 runs in 2020, 478 runs in 2021, and 483 runs in 2022.
Moreover, he also reached the milestone of 1200 runs for Gujarat Titans, the only ever player to do so. Now, with this century he has become the Orange Cap holder. The knock took Gill’s tally to 851. Only Kohli (973 in 2016) and Buttler (863 in 2022) have had more productive seasons. During this passage, he has brought up 800 runs for the season, 500 of those coming at this venue. Gill became the second Indian to score three or more centuries in a single season after Kohli’s record in 2016.
It was his highest strike-rate century in the IPL playoffs. Here are some players with the highest strike-rate-century in Playoffs.
215.00 – SHUBMAN GILL(GT) v MI, 2024
210.34 – Virender Sehwag (PBKS) v CSK, 2014
209.09 – Wriddhiman Saha (PBKS) v KKR, 2014
207.40 – Rajat Patidar (RCB) v LSG, 2022
205.26 – Shane Watson (CSK) v SRH, 2018
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