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DC vs GT: With Gujarat's victory, RCB and Punjab also reached the playoffs, record partnership between Sudarshan-Gill..
Shikha Srivastava | May 19, 2025 12:30 PM CST


Based on the record partnership of Sai Sudarshan and Shubman Gill, Gujarat Titans defeated Delhi Capitals by 10 wickets and qualified for the playoffs. With this, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings have also reached the playoffs. Now the fight for the fourth place is on. In this match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Sunday, Delhi scored 199 runs for the loss of three wickets in 20 overs, based on KL Rahul's century. In reply, Gujarat Titans scored 205 runs without losing a single wicket in the stipulated overs and won the match.

Sudarshan and Gill rocked.

Chasing the target of 200 runs, Gujarat got off to a good start with Sai Sudarshan and Shubman Gill and maintained the momentum till the end. There was an unbeaten partnership of 205 runs between the two. This is the third-highest partnership played by any opening pair. Earlier, Gill and Sudarshan had played a partnership of 210 runs in IPL 2024. This is Gujarat's second most successful run chase while chasing a target.

Highest opening partnership in IPL

Runs Batsman, Team, Year

210* KL Rahul and Quinton de Kock LSG 2022

210 Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan GT 2024

205* Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan GT 2025

185 Jonny Bairstow and David Warner SRH 2019

Most successful run chases for the Gujarat Titans

Runs Opponent Team Position Year

204 Delhi Capitals, Ahmedabad, 2025

200 Delhi Capitals Delhi 2025

198 Royal Challengers Bangalore, Bengaluru 2023

197 Rajasthan Royals Jaipur 2024
Gill completes 5000 T20 runs

In this match, Sai Sudarshan played an unbeaten innings of 108 runs in 61 balls, while Shubman Gill managed to play an unbeaten innings of 93 runs. Sudarshan hit the second century of his IPL career in 56 balls. At the same time, Gill hit the sixth half-century of the season. In this match, the captain of Gujarat completed 5000 runs in T20 with a brilliant performance. He did this feat in 154 innings.

Fastest batsmen to score 5000 runs in T20 (innings-wise)

132 - Chris Gayle

143 - KL Rahul

144 - Shaun Marsh

144 - Devon Conway

145 - Babar Azam

154 - Shubman Gill

Delhi's innings

In this match, Delhi, who came to bat first after losing the toss, started with a setback. Faf du Plessis scored only five runs. After this, opener KL Rahul got the support of Abhishek Porel. There was a partnership of 90 runs in 52 balls for the second wicket between the two. Porel was made a victim by Sai Kishore. He was dismissed after scoring 30 runs in 19 balls. After this, Akshar Patel came to the crease and played some good shots and scored 25 runs and returned to the pavilion. KL Rahul scored a fifth century of his career against Gujarat. He remained unbeaten after scoring 112 runs in 65 balls. Apart from this, Tristan Stubbs made a personal score of 21 runs. Arshad Khan, Prasidh Krishna, and Sai Kishore took one wicket each for Gujarat.

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