GT vs LSG Highlights, IPL 2023: Gill, Saha, Sharma star as Gujarat Titans thrash Lucknow Super Giants by 56 runs

CSK's Deshpande leads the Purple Cap race with 19 wickets, and is followed by GT pacer Shami (18) in second position. GT spinner Rashid (18) is third, followed by MI's Chawla (17) in fourth and PBKS' Arshdeep (16) in fifth position.

RCB captain Du Plessis currently leads the Orange Cap race with 511 runs, followed by CSK opener Conway (458) in second position. RR's Jaiswal (442) is third, RCB's Kohli (419) is fourth and CSK's Gaikwad (384) is fifth.

Little has gone for international duty and GT are expected to use Joseph as his replacement.

Rahul has been ruled out of the tournament due to an injury. He has been replaced by Karun Nair.

Krunal hasn't been good vs Shami and has been dismissed by him five times in five innings and averages only 7.57 against the pacer in T20s.

Gill and Mohit have been the Impact Players for GT in the last three matches and are expected to continue. Meanwhile, LSG have been subbing out Mishra for Mayers or Badoni and are expected to do so again.

GT are currently on top of the table with 14 points in 10 games, packed with seven wins and three defeats. Meanwhile, LSG are third with 11 points in 10 matches, including five victories and four defeats.

The face off between Gill and Krunal in the powerplay will be interesting. Gill strikes at only 78.37 vs the LSG skipper, and has been dismissed once in T20s.

Both sides met earlier in Match 30 in Lucknow, with GT winning by seven runs.

Chasing a target of 136 runs, LSG reached 128/7 in 20 overs. Mohit and Noor were in good bowling form for GT and took two wickets each. Initially, GT posted 135/6 in 20 overs, courtesy of a knock of 66 runs off 50 balls by Hardik.

Both sides faced each other in three matches in IPL, with Gujarat leading 3-0 vs Lucknow.

Ahead of the match, GT captain Hardik said, "I let Rashid handle the business with Noor. Nobody better to communicate. Not much I have to do, I only suggest on when to have a slip. They are very confident about what they want to do, we only have conversations when things aren't going right."

GT: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Hardik Pandya(c), Vijay Shankar, David Miller, Abhinav Manohar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad, Mohammed Shami, Alzarri Joseph, Shubman Gill, Pradeep Sangwan, Matthew Wade, Jayant Yadav, Dasun Shanaka, Srikar Bharat, Odean Smith, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Shivam Mavi, Darshan Nalkande, Urvil Patel, Sai Sudharsan, Yash Dayal

LSG: Kyle Mayers, Manan Vohra, Karan Sharma, Ayush Badoni, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran(w), Krunal Pandya(c), Krishnappa Gowtham, Naveen-ul-Haq, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Amit Mishra, Quinton de Kock, Yash Thakur, Daniel Sams, Prerak Mankad, Deepak Hooda, Avesh Khan, Mark Wood, Swapnil Singh, Romario Shepherd, Arpit Guleria, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Karun Nair

Hello and good morning everyone! Welcome to our live coverage of today's first IPL 2023 match as GT take on LSG in Ahmedabad. Stay tuned folks!