India gun in awe of Aussie star after superb IPL return<\/a><\/p>\nKolkata Knight Riders’ Varun Chakaravarthy pats Sunrisers Hyderabad’s Travis Head after taking his wicket.Source: AP<\/p>\n
STOINIS\u2019 CAMEO CAN\u2019T SAVE PUNJAB<\/p>\n
Jason Holder stood out with figures of 4-24 in an inspired pace attack to set up a four-wicket win for Gujarat Titans in a thrilling IPL contest against Punjab Kings on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Pace spearhead Mohammed Siraj set the tone with two wickets in the first over of the match as hosts Gujarat reduced top-of-the-table Punjab to 47-5 before they managed 163-9 in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n
Gujarat lost regular wickets in their chase but opener Sai Sudharsan\u2019s 57 and an unbeaten 40 off 23 balls by Washington Sundar guided the team home with one ball to spare.<\/p>\n
Needing 11 to win from the last over, Sundar, a left-handed batter, kept his nerve and smacked Marcus Stoinis for a winning six on the penultimate delivery.<\/p>\n
Shubman Gill-led Gujarat stay fifth in the 10-team table with four teams on 12 points each.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think in chases like these, we would have liked to not take it as deep as it went, but two crucial points,\u201d said Gill. \u201cLuckily we had Washi and he finished the game for us.\u201d Punjab, led by Shreyas Iyer, still hold the top spot with 13 points after they went down to just their second defeat in the season.<\/p>\n
The top four teams after the league stage will qualify for the playoffs. Punjab attempted to defend their modest total after impact substitute Vijaykumar Vyshak took 2-30 including the scalp of Jos Buttler, for 25, and the left-handed Sudharsan in the 15th over.<\/p>\n
Gujarat slowed down in their chase in front of disciplined bowling and good fielding, but Sundar stood firm.<\/p>\n
Earlier Siraj rattled Punjab with two wickets in two balls upfront including Cooper Connolly caught behind for a duck.<\/p>\n
Siraj\u2019s new-ball partner Kagiso Rabada took down Prabhsimran Singh for 15 and West Indies pace bowler Holder came in as the third seamer to push Punjab on the backfoot.<\/p>\n
\u201cKG and Siraj were excellent,\u201d said player of the match Holder. \u201cThey make my job easier in the middle overs, but I still had to come in and execute.\u201d Holder dismissed Nehal Wadhera and then Iyer but Stoinis, who made 40, and Suryansh Shedge, who hit 57, put on a defiant stand of 79 off 44 balls.<\/p>\n
Punjab Kings’ Australian cricket player Marcus Stoinis plays a shot during the 2026 IPL match against Gujarat Titans.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
Shedge was impressive in his 29-ball blitz laced with three fours and five sixes and got good support from Australia\u2019s Stoinis.<\/p>\n
Marco Jansen contributed with 20 to boost the total but it was not enough to stop Gujarat from winning on their home turf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spinners Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine helped Kolkata Knight Riders to their third straight win in the IPL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[88402,2620,31778,313499,1724,64,63,689,284078,313502,308403,18762,313500,740,1950,313504,195833,313498,165536,313503,25174,1209,13849,10478,53630,192359,31774,254191,44873,18748,2132,1736,677,291248,313501,57607,163884,1948,231107,105215,72147,313505,31779,10536,311746,12540,85,192340,91929,296179,44867,112587],"class_list":["post-647789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-abhishek-sharma","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-ajinkya-rahane","tag-ashes-villain","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-cricket-player","tag-balls-upfront","tag-batting-chart","tag-cameron-green","tag-captain-australian-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-defiant-stand","tag-finn-allen","tag-five-match-winning-streak","tag-gujarat-titans","tag-head-back-to-back-fifties","tag-home-turf","tag-india","tag-indian-premier-league","tag-jason-holder","tag-jos-buttler","tag-knight-riders","tag-kolkata-knight-riders","tag-league-stage","tag-marco-jansen","tag-marcus-stoinis","tag-mohammed-siraj","tag-new-zealand","tag-oceania","tag-opener-finn","tag-pace-ace","tag-pace-bowler","tag-pace-spearhead","tag-pat-cummins","tag-prabhsimran-singh","tag-punjab-kings","tag-rinku-singh","tag-save-punjab","tag-shreyas-iyer","tag-shubman-gill","tag-smash-centuries","tag-southern-asia","tag-sports","tag-sunil-narine","tag-sunrisers-hyderabad","tag-team-home","tag-travis-head","tag-varun-chakravarthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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