When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Well, Shubman Gill will hold onto these words of strength as GT suffered a heartbreaking loss to the Pinjab Kings, with one ball remaining, tonight at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
Gill finally found his form as he scored his first fifty of the IPL 2024 campaign and led his team tonight with a swashbuckling captain’s knock of 89* as he stood till the very end.
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With the help of quickfire cameos, especially from the likes of Sai Sudharsan, who chipped in with a blazing 33 from just 19 balls, and Rahul Tewatia at the end, Gill helped set up his team’s challenging total of 199 runs.
But, in the end, it would all prove to be too little as Punjab, under the guidance of Shashank Singh and Ashutosh Sharma, would clinch a stellar last-over win over the hosts.
After the match, Gill reflected o the loss and stated that it was their sloppiness on the field which ultimately cost them the win.
“I think a couple of catches went down, never easy (to win) when you drop catches,” stated Gill.
“Bowlers did a decent job, when the ball is coming on to the bat, it’s difficult to defend, I wouldn’t say we were short (on runs). The new ball was doing something. 200 was good enough. We were right in the game till about the 15th over. always under pressure with dropped catches.”
When questioned about his selection of Darshan Nalkande to bowl the last over, over the experienced Umesh Yadav, Gill backed the youngster and praised him for his efforts so far this season.
“With the way he’s (Nalkande) bowled in the last match and with 7 runs to go, it was a no brainer for us. People who you haven’t seen will come and play knocks like these and that’s the beauty of IPL,” exclaimed Gill.
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