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

Tewatia finishes it off with a four. What a partnership this has been between these two ace finishers. Yes, it has been aided by some horrendous fielding errors by RCB but make no mistake, these Miller and Tewatia have not just swung the bat at everything blindly. The partnership between them ends at 79 off 40 balls and it has been put together with care. Miller is unbeaten on 39 off 24, Tewatia on 43 off 25. 

Miller whacks Hazlewood through long-off for four. Just two needed to win now. 

RCB now need just 7 to win off the last over. Sends the last ball of the 19th over bowled by Harshal Patel over covers and clears the boundary with ease. This chase has turned out to be an easy one for GT and that is completely down to these two batters. 

Miller closes the over out with a four. GT now need 19 to win off the last two overs. Hazlewood had given just 9 runs in two overs before this, he has conceded 17 runs in this over. 

What an innings Tewatia is playing here. He flicks Hazlewood over long leg for six and then eases into a cover drive off the next ball. That brings the 50-run partnership between Miller and Tewatia. 

Need 36 to win from 18 balls. Six sixes off an over would do the job, and knowing these two batters that might just happen. Although it must be said that it is Josh Hazlewood bowling this over, and most probably the last, and he has conceded just 9 runs in 2 overs.  

That makes it 15 runs off the 16th over, GT need 43 to win off 23 balls. That was exactly what GT needed and this is exactly the kind of thing they do when it looks like they can't win a match. GT 128/4 after 16 overs. 

Lomror got to the ball but it slipped right through his hands at point so that's at least two extra runs for GT. 

Tewatia cuts Siraj and the ball races to the boundary for four. GT need 51 to win off 27 balls. 

David MIller goes after Wanindu Hasaranga! He whacks the first ball of the 15th over past long on for four and then slices a full ball over cover for a six off the second. 

Sudarshan looking to cut away but the ball takes a bottom edge and thuds into Rawat's glove. The ball loops up and Rawat runs after it to complete the catch. 

Sudarshan c Rawat b Hasaranga 20 (14); GT 95/4 in 12.5 overs

The match is evenly poised at the moment, with Gujarat noseing ahead simply on the basis of the reputation of their remaining batters and their own as a team. 

Hardik Pandya holes at long-on! He sees the full ball in the slot and goes after it but can hit it only into the hands of long on. Thats Gujarat Titans' highest run scorer back in the hut and they are in some trouble now.  

Pandya c Lomror b Shahbaz 3 (5), GT 78/3 in 10.2 overs

Shout for LBW and the umpire raises his finger again. Gill reviews once more but this time, he is not too sure as he goes for it. Replays show three reds so that is the end of the story for Gill. 

Gill LBW b Shahbaz 31 (28); GT 68/2 after 8.5 overs

Gill smacks Shahbaz Ahmed for for a six behind midwicket and that shot came off a free hit. The ball was declared a no ball because it was deemed by the third umpire that the wicketkeeper had collected the ball from in front of the stumps. The umpire had declared Gill out after which the batter reviewed the decision, which is when the third umpire called the no ball.  

Hasaranga strikes in his very first over. Saha skews an attempted backfoot drive and he skies that, Patidar takes a good catch running in from long on.  

Saha c Patidar b Hasaranga 29 (22); GT 53/1 after 7.3 overs

It had taken a few matches but it seems GT finally have a steady opening stand. Saha has been the more aggressive but Gull hasn't been too far behind. 

GT are 46/0. Hazlewood had built up some pressure but 12 runs off the last over in the powerplay bowled by Siraj has eased some of that. GT would be very happy with where they are at the moment. 

Wriddhiman Saha has taken the initiative yet again. Short from Siraj and Saha stands tall to cut it over the infield. The ball trickles away to the boundary.  

Five runs off the third over, which is the first for Josh Hazlewood. This has been a good, fluent start to the chase by these two. 

Gill also managed to get a boundary in that over after which he almost got an inside edge to the keeper off the next ball. All in all, it hasn't been a great first over for RCB. 

And Saha hits him for a four off the very first ball! He has Shubman Gill at the other end, who has been pretty inconsistent this season. Saha, of course, managed to score a half century in GT's last match before becoming one of five batters to fall to Umran Malik. 

DK seems to be b bit under the weather and so it is Anuj Rawat who is standing in as a wicketkeeper for RCB. 

15 runs off the last over. Lomror does fall after being caught by Miller off the last ball of that over but the delivery that would have been a dot due to his wicket ended up producing two runs. The question remains, though, is this enough?

Mahipal Lomror survives in the most bizarre fashion. He skies an attempted big shot and it goes high up in the sky. But Lomror is standing around as the umpires go upstairs to check if the ball hit a cable on the way down. As it turns out, it did and the ball is declared dead. That is not one of the cables used for the spider cam. The Brabourne does not host international cricket regularly so one could find peculiarities like random cables above the ground.