Sports Top 10: In the IPL 2024 season, under the captaincy of Sanju Samson, Rajasthan Royals performed well in the first 4 matches and won the IPL, while in the fifth match they had to face defeat against Gujarat Titans. On the basis of brilliant half-centuries by Samson and Ryan Parag, Rajasthan had scored 196 runs in this match, chasing which Gujarat Titans won the match on the last ball of the 20th over. In this match, a brilliant inning of 72 runs was seen from the bat of Gujarat Titans team captain Shubman Gill and he also completed 3000 runs of his IPL career.
Gujarat defeated Rajasthan Royals at home
Gujarat Titans played brilliantly in the match against Rajasthan Royals and won it by 3 wickets. In this match, the Gujarat team, which was chasing the target of 197 runs, gave a great start to the pair of Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan and made a partnership of 64 runs for the first wicket, but after this, Rajasthan Royals made a comeback in the match and scored 133 runs. By the score of 0.5, half the Gujarat team had been sent to the pavilion. From here Rahul Tewatia took charge of Gujarat’s innings from one end in which he got the support of Rashid Khan. Gujarat needed 15 runs to win in the last over of the innings, in which Rashid played an important role in giving his team a thrilling victory by hitting a four on the last ball.
Sanju Samson told bad bowling as the main reason for the defeat
Rajasthan Royals team captain Sanju Samson cited poor bowling as the main reason for the 3-wicket defeat against Gujarat Titans team. Sanju said that I think the last ball of this match was where we lost this match. Gujarat Titans team must be given credit for this victory. When I was batting, I felt that on this pitch a score of 180 is worth fighting for and 196 is a winning score. In the absence of dew, the bowlers should have done their job well.
Shubman Gill completed 3000 runs in his IPL career
Shubhman Gill played an inning of 72 runs in the match against Rajasthan Royals. By scoring his 27th run in this match, he completed his 3000 runs in IPL. Gill has completed his three thousand runs in IPL in 94th innings and has equaled David Warner. Warner had also completed three thousand runs in as many innings. The record of scoring the fastest 3000 runs in IPL is in the name of Chris Gayle.
BCCI fined Sanju Samson
After the defeat against Gujarat Titans, Rajasthan Royals team captain Sanju Samson also got a shock from the BCCI. In this match, Samson had to face fine due to slow over rate. Rajasthan team was allowed to place only 4 fielders at 5 places outside 30 yards in the last over of the match. After the match, Sanju Samson was fined Rs 12 lakh for not completing the over in the stipulated time.
BCCI canceled meeting with franchise owners
The meeting between BCCI/IPL officials and franchise promoters was scheduled to take place during the IPL match between Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals in Ahmedabad. But due to change in the schedule of that match, this meeting has now been cancelled. In this meeting, the future strategy for IPL was to be discussed in the mega-auction to be held next year. For this, invitations for the meeting were already sent to all the ten owners of IPL franchises.
Shubman Gill angry at wide ball in the match against Rajasthan Royals
Gujarat Titans team captain Shubhman Gill was very angry when the umpire gave a wide ball in the 17th over of the match during the Rajasthan Royals innings. Actually, a ball of Mohit Sharma was given wide by the on field umpire. On this, Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill demanded a review. The third umpire saw this ball and the third umpire also got confused. However, the third umpire first reviewed it and gave it as a fair delivery. The on-field umpire also declared this ball fair again, but again the third umpire checked the replays and later reversed his own decision and declared it wide again. Shubman Gill looked very angry with this decision.
Sanju Samson broke Jos Buttler’s record
Sanju Samson has now become the player with the highest fifty plus score while playing for Rajasthan Royals. He has left Jos Buttler behind in this matter. Sanju has scored fifty plus score 25 times for Rajasthan Royals. Whereas Butler has done this 24 times while at number three is Ajinkya Rahane who has done this feat 23 times while playing for Rajasthan Royals.
8 venues for ODI World Cup 2027 announced
Three countries will jointly organize the ODI World Cup 2027. These include South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia. World Cup 2027 will be played in October-November. In this, 8 venues have been selected regarding which grounds the matches will be played in South Africa, which include Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, Kingsmead in Durban and Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
Rishabh Pant gained one place in ICC Test rankings
Rishabh Pant played his last Test match for the Indian team in the year 2022 against Bangladesh. But after that, due to his accident in December 2022, he has not been able to play a single Test match till now. Now Rishabh Pant has gained one place in the new ICC rankings released by ICC. He has reached number 15.
The match will be played between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Wankhede Stadium.
In the 25th match of IPL 2024, the match between Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore team will be played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. So far this season, both the teams have seen very poor performance. While Mumbai team has won only 1 out of 4 matches, RCB has managed to win only 1 out of 5 matches so far.
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