End of innings

Gujarat Titan’s Mohit Sharma picked a brilliant 3-25 to lead a good bowling show for the Gujarat Titans in restricting Sunrisers Hyderabad to 162/8 in 20 overs.

He was also well-supported by Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad and Umesh Yadav taking one wicket each.

For SRH, all of their top seven batters made beyond 15, but none of them could go past 30.

Abdul Samad and Abhishek Sharma made 29 each, as the duo became the highest individual scorers for the visitors in an innings where they made only 40 runs in the last five overs.

The in-form Heinrich Klaasen started in style by glancing an on-pads delivery from Noor for four, before clubbing Noor for back-to-back sixes over deep mid-wicket fence.

His fun under the sun ended at 24 off 13 balls when he missed a skiddy full delivery while trying to pull off Rashid and was castled.

Brief Scores:

Sunrisers Hyderabad 162/8 in 20 overs

(Abdul Samad 29, Abhishek Sharma 29; Mohit Sharma 3-25, Azmatullah Omarzai 1-24) against Gujarat Titans

An unchanged Sunrisers Hyderabad have won the toss and elected to bat first against Gujarat Titans in match 12 of IPL 2024 at the Narendra Modi Stadium today afternoon.

GT come into their second home game of the competition after losing by 63 runs to Chennai Super Kings at Chepauk and are up against an SRH side, who enter today’s clash on the back of scoring a record-breaking 277 in a 31-run win over Mumbai Indians in a run-fest match.

“Looks like a good wicket so we want to put runs on the board. Don’t Know about that, but good wonderful memories back here (of Australia winning the ODI World Cup here) and it’s a packed stadium as well. We scored the highest score ever; we are very capable of that but it's not going to happen always. If we have a good crack, we might get close to it again”" said Cummins.

GT skipper Shubman Gill said he would have bowled first, while adding that young left-arm wrist-spinner Noor Ahmad and pace-bowling all-rounder Darshan Nalkande come into the playing eleven in place of left-arm fast-bowler Spencer Johnson and left-arm spinner R Sai Kishore.

“Looks like a good wicket (to bowl upon). Definitely have a lot of good memories to look back here and would like to make good memories going forward. The support that I get from Ashu Paa (head coach Ashish Nehra) and the management is great,” he said.

Playing XIs

Gujarat Titans

Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Shubman Gill (captain), Azmatullah Omarzai, David Miller, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Umesh Yadav, Noor Ahmad, Mohit Sharma and Darshan Nalkande

Substitutes

B Sai Sudharsan, R Sai Kishore, Sharath BR, Manav Suthar, Abhinav Manohar

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Mayank Agarwal, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wicketkeeper), Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pat Cummins (captain), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande and Jaydev Unadkat

Substitutes

Umran Malik, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Nitish Reddy and Upendra Yadav

(Source: IANS)

- Edited for style

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