Hardik Pandya hit the belly to remove Sanju Samson
Gujarat Titans Captain Hardik Pandya Not ready to do anything wrong tonight as he dismissed Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson for 11 off 52 balls in the first innings of the 24th match. IPL 2022 here at Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai on Thursday. Pandya was standing at mid-on when Samson threw the ball towards him and started running for a run which was never there. The GT captain picks up the ball and throws a perfect to send it back to the RR captain.
Earlier, Pandya got his team out of trouble with a 33-ball fifty against RR. Hardik (87 not out off 52) first found a capable ally in Abhinav Manohar (43 not out in 28) before he exploded in the company of David Miller (31 not out off 14) to make his IPL debut. reach his highest score of the tournament. Hardik and Manohar shared an 86-run stand for the fourth wicket before the captain and Miller ended the innings with 53 runs in 25 balls.
Coming to bat, Gujarat found themselves on 53/3. While Hardik’s 52-ball innings hit eight fours and four sixes, Manohar hit four fours and two sixes. Miller, who hit five fours and a six in total, scored 21 runs off Kuldeep Sen (1/51) in the over.
To begin with, Hardik was aggressive on pacer Kuldeep as he hit him for three consecutive boundaries in the fifth over. He then achieved his first maximum in the seventh over when he caught Riyan Parag on his head.
When Manohar started the information, both of them opened the front. Yuzvendra Chahali, hammering him for four and max, a high inside-out drive over cover. After this, both hit Kuldeep for three fours in the 14th over, where Hardik also completed his half-century with a cut towards the backward point fence.