GT vs SRH IPL 2024: Awards List, Man of the Match, Fantasy Player of the Match, Reactions, Key Stats

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GT vs SRH IPL 2024: Gujarat Titans (GT) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by seven wickets in match 12 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Sunday, March 31.

After opting to bat first, SRH scored 162 runs for the loss of eight wickets despite being 56/1 at the off six overs. Mohit Sharma picked three wickets for hosts Gujarat Titans. Abhishek Sharma (29 off 20), and Abdul Samad (29 off 14) top-scored for Hyderabad, who posted record 277/3 in their previous match.

In reply, Gujarat Titans also got off to a good start and collected 52 runs for the loss of Wriddhiman Saha's wicket at the end of powerplay. Saha scored 25 off 13 balls.

Gujarat captain Shubman Gill scored 36 runs off 28 balls, and then a 64-run partnership between Sai Sudharsan (45 off 36) and David Miller (44* off 27) took the game completely away from Hyderabad.

Miller finished the chase with a six on the first ball of the 20th over from Jaydev Unadkat. Vijay Shankar also remained unbeaten on 14 off 11.

GT vs SRH IPL 2024 Match 12: Complete List of Award Winners

• Punch. EV Electric Striker of the Match: Abdul Samad
• My11Circle Fantasy Player of the Match: Mohit Sharma (85 points)
• Angel One 6s of the Match: David Miller (2 sixes)
• Rupay On The Go 4's Award: Sai Sudharsan (4 fours)
• Man of the Match: Mohit Sharma (3/25)

GT vs SRH Match 12: Who said what? Shubman Gill and Pat Cummins reaction

Mohit Sharma (Man of the Match): "Thank you sir for reminding me that I’m getting older day by day (chuckles). Practice is normal but the important thing is how to use the variation according to the game situation. Bowlers do have variations but it matters when and how to use it.

"It’s important when you have two balls in mind, the batters are also ready, they are ready for the slower bouncer but they are not ready for the slower short ball wide of the wicket so I mix and match. Dew is uncontrollable and we practice bowling with a wet ball. When it’s going good, I enjoy. When the match gets over, I like to reflect where I did well and where I didn’t. Rashid and Noor bowled well, we went for a few runs in the back end but we came back well in the final few overs."

Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans captain): "To be able to win two matches at home, great. Our next match is also here and then we've got a couple of matches on the road. Hopefully by the time we come back, we will have good momentum into this tournament. The way our bowlers bowled in the middle overs, especially Noor ... obviously Rashid bhai is a world-class bowler and he's always coming in and giving his best, but the way Darshan came in and bowled those two crucial overs at the death was very important for us. (

"(On Mohit) He's such an experienced player, especially on wickets like these. He comes in day in day out, he practises his skills and he's so skilled. It's not easy in this heat to bowl four overs back-to-back, sometimes three overs back-to-back. But he comes in, bowls those yorkers, slower ones and mixes it so well.

"The credit has to go to him for practising those skills and to be able to have the confidence to execute them in the match. In this heat, wherever we play in the day match, it's easier to score with the new ball. Once the ball gets old and the wickets gets slow, it's difficult to hit those sixes, especially on the longer side and that was our plan - to be able to let them hit the slower ones on the longer side.

"(On his dismissal) The ball was there to be hit, I was just backing my shot, but the ball hit the bottom and it didn't bounce as much as I expected it to be but that's fine. In T20, you have to always keep your options open and if the ball is there, you have to go for it.

"Once we saw how our spinners were bowling, we thought 160-170 would be a good score. Credit to the bowlers how they came in and restricted them to that total. Everybody knows their roles in terms of batting or bowling, Sai has been playing well, Wriddhi bhai has been doing what Wriddhi bhai does and it was important for us to be able to get Miller back in form. Just cramps (on Miller's status)."

Pat Cummins (SRH captain): "Good game of cricket, was tight in the end, probably we needed 10-15 more runs. I think they bowled well, just losing a couple of wickets, didn’t have that one person who kicked on to get a fifty, that happens.

"Today it was, we thought the wicket was going to get a bit slow, the off-cutters did grip, we had 8 bowling options in our side. I thought the wicket played the same in both innings. It’s T20 cricket isn’t it? Had a fantastic couple of games with the bat, today we didn’t quite click."

Sai Sudharsan: "I'm happy that my contribution helped the team win, so definitely happy. It was a difficult wicket to play the fast bowlers, bowling into the pitch was hard to score off, so we decided to target that one over of spin.

"Great contributions from Mohit bhai and Rashid bhai, picked crucial wickets and restricted the target by around 10-15 runs. Playing in front of the home crowd is a plus point for us. Everyone wants to get more runs, I just want to contribute my best, milestones will happen by itself."

GT vs SRH IPL 2024 Match 12 Key Stats

• Gujarat Titans have 15 successful run chases on 20 occasions in IPL
• David Miller has an average of 113.33, and a strike rate of 149.12 in successful run-chases in IPL