After captain Shubman Gill (104) and Sai Sudarshan (103), thanks to Mohit Sharma (3 wickets for 31 runs), Gujarat Titans kept alive their hopes of reaching the IPL 2024 playoffs by defeating defending champion Chennai Super Kings by 35 runs. . On Friday (May 10), in the 59th match of the season at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat first made a huge score of 231 runs for 3 wickets and then restricted Chennai Super Kings to 196 runs for 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.

After the victory, Gujarat team remains in the race for playoff.

This match was do or die for Gujarat. This is the team's fifth win in 12 matches and now it has 10 points. With this, Gujarat team has now moved from 10th to eighth position. Shubman Gill's team is still in the race for the playoffs. To keep the playoff hopes alive, Gujarat will have to win both its remaining matches. But even a defeat will take the team out of the race for the knockout. At the same time, this is the sixth defeat of current champion Chennai in 12 matches. The team is still at fourth position with 12 points.

Chennai Super Kings, who came to chase the huge target of 232 runs from Gujarat, had a bad start, the team lost its top three wickets within 10 runs. These included the wickets of Ajinkya Rahane (1), Rachin Ravindra (1) and captain Rituraj Gaikwad (0). However, after this, Daryl Mitchell (63) and then Moeen Ali (56) kept Chennai in the match by making a century partnership of 109 runs in 57 balls for the fourth wicket.

Mohit Sharma came and broke this partnership which was becoming dangerous, when he got Mitchell caught out. Mitchell hit seven fours and three sixes in 34 balls. Mohit then gave another breakthrough to Gujarat by showing the way to the pavilion to Moeen Ali in his very next over. Moeen hit four fours and as many sixes in 36 balls. After the dismissal of Mitchell and Moeen, the entire responsibility rested on the shoulders of Shivam Dubey and Ravindra Jadeja.

Chennai Super Kings needed 70 runs in the last four overs to win. Shivam Dubey and Ravindra Jadeja kept Chennai in the game by making a partnership of 30 runs for the sixth wicket. But here again Mohit emerged as a trouble-shooter for Gujarat. He gave the sixth blow to Chennai by getting Shivam caught out. Dubey scored 21 runs in 13 balls with the help of two fours and one six. After Dubey's dismissal, MS Dhoni entered the field.