IPL 2025: Sai Sudharsan Feels Jos Buttler’s Experience Set GT up For Late Flourish vs RCB

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Gujarat Titans batter B Sai Sudharsan reflected on his team's 8-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Wedneday (April 2), highlighting the importance of Jos Butler's experience in stabilizing the middle overs and delivering strong finish in the final overs.

Chasing 170 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, GT took a little cautious approach at the start and then had a late flourish by reaching the target with 2.1 overs to spare. Buttler played a key role, scoring an unbeaten 73 off 39 balls to take GT past the target.

In the post-match press conference, Sai Sudharsan, who shared a 75-run stand with Buttler, emphasized that the England star's knowledge and experience are crucial, especially on a challenging wicket.

"I think it might be probably because of the left-right combination and having a bit more experience in number 3 and number 4 as you can see. I feel Butler is bringing in a lot of experience and a lot of knowledge in his back, which is helping us to settle or stabilize the middle overs and have an excellent last five overs. It was excellent, I feel, because the wicket was not as easy as we can see." Sai Sudharsan said in the post-match press conference.

RCB's much-hyped top order failed to get going in their first match at home. Sudharsan pointed out that the wicket was difficult in the first innings, but eased out slightly in the second innings.

The Tamil Nadu batter praised Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar for bowling exceptionally well before he opened up on his team's strategy, which was to take the game deep as the wicket wasn't behaving as expected.

"Even RCB found it a little difficult in the first innings, but I felt it slightly eased out in the second innings, and obviously, they started well. The way Josh and Bhuvi Bhai bowled was extraordinary. So I felt the conversation was a bit, it was more of taking the game deep because right now the wicket was not playing the way we wanted."

The 23-year-old, who fell just short of a half century, also added the importance of keeping wickets in hand when chasing a low target on a difficult wicket against a strong bowling attack like RCB was crucial in maximizing the team's chances of winning in such situations.

"So slowly after 8-9 overs it got better and we maximized the most out of it. Sir, I feel whenever we chase a less target in a difficult wicket and a bowling like RCB which is one of the best bowling in the league this year. I feel the most important thing is wickets in hand," he said.