IPL 2022 Highlights, GT vs RCB: Miller, Tewatia lead GT to six-wicket win, RCB sink to hat-trick of defeats

Patidar lifts Shami towards long-on. The ball doesn't quite reach the boundary but the batters run three easily. Shami walks off the field after that over. 

Top edge from Kohli off Shami but there is no one standing near the fine leg boundary, where the ball bounces once before going past the ropes. 

Sangwan had Du Plessis absolutely pinned down for two deliveries before finally getting the RCB captain's outside edge. Easy take for Saha behind the stumps.

Du Plessis c Saha b Sangwan 0 (4), RCB 11/1 after 1.5 overs

Pradeep Sangwan is making his debut for GT today. Back in 2008, when the Delhi Daredevils had to choose between Kohli and Sangwan and they ended up going for the latter. Kohli was picked by RCB and he has been there ever since. 

Shami strays on to his former India captain's pads and Kohli is not going to miss out on that, how much ever bad his form may be. The next ball is wide and then Kohli takes a run off the fifth ball. The last one is a dot ball. RCB 10/0 after 1 over. 

Straight drive from Kohli and it goes to the boundary leading to big cheers from everyone in the crowd. 

Well Shami calls for the tape to mark his run up after pulling up short for the second time. The umpire has a bit of a stern word. He finally delivers and that whistles past Kohli's outside edge. Yorker that moved away from Kohli in the last minute. 

And Shami then adds to the drama. Kohli defends down the first ball, off the middle of the bat and that leads to big cheers in the crowd. Shami then runs in but doesn't deliver the ball twice. 

Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis walk out for RCB, Mohammed Shami has the ball in his hands for GT. Here we go then!

Mohammed Shami has dismissed Virat Kohli four times in the IPL in 46 balls and has given just 62 runs. Moreover, Shami has picked the most number of wickets in the powerplay this season while Kohli has survived the first six overs only once in six innings so far. 

Hardik Pandya: Thank you (on being congratulated for playing his 100th IPL game). To be honest when I went to have a few knocks I thought I have come a long way. 2015 when it all started and today leading the side, proud of myself. We would have liked to bat first as well because of the heat. The wicket won't change much. It is just about how we manage our intensity and don't get overcooked. The boys had a couple of hits and it was all about recovery.

Faf du Plessis: We are going to break the trend and have a bat first. Obviously it is a day game, heat is one factor and I find that when you field first the boys are cooked by the time it is our turn to bat. But hopefully the wicket will get little bit slower. Couple of games in the tournament does not make you a bad team. There is still some high class quality players, so keep trusting them and knowing things will change around the corner. With experience you know that the answer does not lie in the nets, it is just clarity in your own mind and calmness. Same team. No, one change - we have a leftie (Lomror) coming in.

Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Hardik Pandya(c), Sai Sudharsan, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Pradeep Sangwan, Alzarri Joseph, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Shami

Faf du Plessis (captain), Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Shahbaz Ahmed, Mahipal Lomror, Wanindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood

Faf du Plessis almost forgets that there is one change in the RCB squad today. He says that Mahipal Lomror comes in. Meanwhile, Hardik Pandya said that Pradeep Sangwan and Sai Sudarshan come in for Yash Dayal and Abhinav Manohar

RCB captain Faf du Plessis wins the toss and chooses to bat! Just the second time that a captain has won the toss and chosen to bat first. 

… is one they would love to forget. They were blown away by SRH's fast bowlers and went on to be all out for just 68 runs. It remains the only double digit team total this season. SRH chased down the target with nine wickets and 12 overs to spare. 

A very good batting track, says Matthew Hayden. “Rashid Khan and Hasaranga are going to have their task cut out," says the former Australia opener. “An absolute belter.”

The young opener scored a half century against Mumbai Indians and then went on to put up just one double digit score in his next four innings, which led to him getting dropped from the team in RCB's last game. However, their experiment of bringing in Rajat Patidar at No.3 and promoting Kohli to the top of the order did not bring them too much success. 

Sunil Gavaskar says that GT are managing the close wins that they have got this seasonn due to the fact that they are playing “bindaas” cricket. 

Out of the 10 matches played here, just four have been won by teams batting first. Unlike the Wankhede Stadium, the Brabourne has followed the stereotype of chasing being the advantageous thing today. 

Gujarat Titans seem to have found a knack of winning games from almost unwinnable positions this season. A prime example of that was their last game in which the fiery Umran Malik's five-wicket haul had left them needing 47 runs to win in the last three overs. They managed to chase it down, even smashing 25 runs in the last over, to win the game. 

It has been some time since Kohli was threatening to score a century in every match regardless of the format. However, his form this IPL has arguably been his worst in a tournament in this nearly two-and-a-half-year period in which he has not score a century in any format of the game. 

Regardless of his adventures with the bat, Rashid's primary role is as a bowler and with SRH, he specialised in turning the screws in the middle overs. He has not been able to do that thus far this season. He has taken just eight wickets this season and averages close to 60. 

Rashid Khan is not having the best of seasons with the ball but it is quite a different story with the bat. He has batted five times this season and scored 71 runs at a strike rate of 197.22. This includes two knocks that directly led GT to victory. 

Since Hazlewood's inclusion in the playing 11, RCB have picked 25 wickets in last five games out of which the Australian pacer has picked 10.