Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
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Gujarat Titans the winner of the IPL 2022 edition won the opening match of IPL 2023.

The Indian Premier League also known as IPL started the 16th edition on March 31st.

The first match was to be played between Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings.

Gujarat Titans played their first IPL edition in 2022 and won the title in that year itself.

The first match of IPL 2023 was to be played in Ahmedabad the newly formed stadium with the highest seating capacity.

A new rule has been implemented in this year’s IPL as one player can be Substituted in and out from a list of Impact players.

And the captains can finalize the playing eleven after the toss.

Match Details

The stage was set for the first IPL match to be played as Gujarat Titans captain Hardik won the toss and elected to bowl first.

CSK Innings

Devon Conway and Ruturaj Gaikwad opened the innings for CSK.

Ruturaj started to play outstanding shots from the start.

But Devon soon lost his wicket, while Ruturaj kept on going.

As the match went forward Ruturaj even completed his half-century.

It was great to watch Ruturaj bat but no other batsmen were able to support him much.

Ruturaj was hitting sixes around every corner of the ground as he hit nine big sixes in his innings.

By the knock by him of 92 runs CSK was able to get up to a total of 178/7.

Mohammad Shami, Rashid Khan, and Alzarri Joseph took two wickets each.

Ambati Rayudu was replaced with Tushar Deshpande in the second innings for strength in the bowling attack.

GT Innings

Sai Sudharsan came in for GT as a replacement for Kane Williamson as he got injured.

Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill opened the GT batting line-up.

They both gave an outstanding start when Saha lost his wicket to Hangargekar.

Shubman kept on going as his half-century and the short knocks by other players brought them close to the chase.

In the end, Rahul Tewatia and Rashid Khan did the remaining job as Gujarat Titans won the first match of IPL 2023.

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