210 runs in the opening pair. Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan – both scored centuries. Gujarat Titans beat Chennai Super Kings by 35 runs in their double century. This kept Gujarat’s playoff hopes alive. On the other hand, Chennai had to face another stumbling block on the way to the last four.

With Gill-Sudarshan’s record partnership of 210 runs, Gujarat amassed a huge capital of 231 runs. This is the highest run pair for any wicket in the current IPL. In response, Chennai managed to get 196 runs after losing 8 wickets.

In response, Chennai lost three wickets for 10 runs. Ajinkya Rahane (1 in 5 balls), Rachin Rabindra (1 in 2 balls, runout) and captain Ruturaj Gaikwad (0 in 3 balls) could not stand on the wicket.

Daryl Mitchell and Moeen Ali scored 109 runs for the third wicket. Both of them nodded fifty. Mitchell played an innings of 63 runs off 34 balls (7 boundaries and 3 sixes). A great innings of 56 runs from 36 balls (4 boundaries and 4 sixes) came out of Moeen’s bat.

In the end, Mahendra Singh Dhoni could not win the team even though he played an innings of 26 runs off 11 balls. Because by that time a little more time has passed. Dhoni had to return unbeaten but the team did not win because he did not have the ball in his hand.