IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Highlights: Gujarat beat Punjab by three wickets

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: In an era where teams are crossing 150 in the 15th over, Punjab Kings are yet to get to three figures and they have just four wickets left. This has been a debacle for the hosts. Shashank is still there though.

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 97/6 in 15 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Sai Kishore gets one of the two big fishes in this PBKS batting lineup. Ashutosh holes out at deep extra cover off the fifth ball of that over.

Ashutosh c Mohit b Sai Kishore 3 (8)

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 92/6 in 13.5 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Ashutosh is on two off five, Shashank on three off six. Noor Ahmad has bowled out in the 13th over, he finishes with figures of 2/20. Sai Kishore returns to bowl his second over in the 14th. 

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 90/5 in 13 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Spin all the way for Gujarat and this time, it is Sai Kishore who strikes. He was hit fir a six off the first ball of the 12th by Jitesh. Then two balls and then Sai Kishore leaves Jitesh dumbfounded by dragging his length back fourth ball. The batter comes down the track and the ball bounces well in front of him, he misses his swing entirely and the stumps behind him are rattled. Out walks Ashutosh Sharma to join Shashank and so Punjab, once again, are left to hope that either of these two, if not both, pull off yet another miracle.

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IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Length ball around off from Noor for his second delivery of the over after Livingstone plays the first fine for a four. The batter tries to flick it against the turn, outside edge goes quickly to first slip where Tewatia is sharp enough to take the catch. However, GT would know that they are getting into Punjab's best batters only now, Shashank Singh walks out to replace Livingstone.

Livingstone c Tewatia b Noor Ahmad 6 (9)

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 78/4 in 10.2 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Liam Livingstone seems to have as much idea about how to pick Noor and Rashid as we do right now of a comet set to hit the earth and end humanity right now. He has somehow pulled himself to two off seven, Jitesh is on six off seven. That was Rashid's third over, Noor to bowl his third as well, Gill making Livingstone sweat.

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 74/3 in 10 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Punjab got off to a fairly good start but that is all in tatters now. Full ball around leg that Curran tries to put away leg side. He is beaten and a big appeal for LBW, umpire shakes his head and Gill reviews again. Once again, it is three reds and the umpire's decision is overturned.

Curran lbw b Rashid Khan 20 (19)

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 67/3 in 7.5 overs

Noor Ahmad breaks his wicketless run. He had gone without any scalps in the last three matches but gets a big one here. He ends the seventh over with a full ball outside off that turns into Rossouw. The South African goes for the sweep but the ball hits the pads. The umpire turns down the appeal and Gill takes the review. It is three reds and Rossouw has to go.

Rossouw lbw b Noor Ahmad 9 (7)

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 63/2 in 7 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: That was a good start for PBKS but then the wickeg spoils things a bit. Moreover, in a season where scoring over 70 runs in the powerplay has been normalised, 56 feels a little outdated. But then PBKS are facing a team whose batting hasn't fared much better than their own. Rilee Rossouw, who was a victim of Jasprit Bumrah's yorkers and fell for a duck in the last match, has scored four off three, Curran on 15 off 13. 

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 56/1 in 6 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Mohit cuts short Prabhsimran's innings in the powerplay himself. Full delivery outside off for the third ball of the fifth over, Prabhsimran has a waft at it and ends up edging it to the wicketkeeper. The opening stand ends on 52 and it is just the second time that Punjab Kings have got a first wicket stand of over 50 runs this season.

Prabhsimran Singh c Saha b Sharma 35 (21)

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 52/1 in 5.3 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Rashid Khan does an even better job at restricting PBKS than Mohit the very next over and there might be some pressure building on the two batters. Singles off the first, third and fifth balls is all they could conjure. 

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 45/0 in 5 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Curran with a four off the first ball of the fourth over for which Mohit Sharma has brought in. No more boundaries in that over though and Curran is on 12 off nine, Prabhsimran on 28 off 16. 

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 42/0 in 4 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Omarzai returns for the third over. Starts off with a full delivery around off that Curran puts away through backward point and cover point for a four. He gets off strike next ball and then Prabhsimran with a brilliant shot to put the fourth delivery over deep backward square for a six. Prabhsimran is on 27 off 15, Curran on six off four.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Warrier slips and Prabhsimran makes the most of it. The first delivery is full and swinging into Prabhsimran's pads, the batter clips it past fine leg for a four. Two dot balls and then two runs off the fourth ball after which Prabhsimran smashes the fifth ball over cover for a four. Then he hits the last ball over deep backward point for a six and that turns out to be a no ball as well! The free-hit delivery is wide outside off and Prabhsimran sends that over cover point for a four. He has raced to 21 off 11, Curran at the other end on one off two.

PBKS vs GT IPL Live Score: PBKS 23/0 in 2 overs

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Curran gets off the mark with a single off the second delivery after which Prabhsimran defends the first delivery he faces, mistimes a pull off his second and misses a flick off the third. He then drives the last ball of the over past mid-off for a single. Sandeep Warrier to bowl the second over for GT.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Azmatullah Omarzai bowling the first over for GT. Sam Curran opens with Prabhsimran Singh at the other end.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Considering how the other game of the day is going, and how numerous others have gone this season, it seems quite clear that a number of teams have decided to just swing at almost anything they see, score and obscene amount of runs and then start thinking about anything else. Not GT though. GT have hit just 27 sixes, the lowest for any team this season by some distance. The second lowest is LSG at 52. Just to put things in perspective, Heinrich Klaasen alone has hit 26 sixes this season.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Azmatullah Omarzai has made it into the squad while Spencer Johnson sits out.  

GT XI: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Shubman Gill(c), David Miller, Azmatullah Omarzai, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad, Sandeep Warrier, Mohit Sharma

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Sam Curran(c), Prabhsimran Singh, Rilee Rossouw, Liam Livingstone, Shashank Singh, Jitesh Sharma(w), Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Sam Curran remains PBKS captain. He has won the toss and chosen to bat first. 

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Only 2 individual fifties for GT this season - the lowest for any team. PBKS had 4 - the second-lowest.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Jonny Bairstow was dropped in PBKS's last game against Mumbai Indians after a string of poor performances this season. Bairstow scored 96 runs in six innings at a strike rate of 131.50 and average of 16.00. It has been a hard time out for Bairstow in India and he has been here for a long time. He was part of the England team who had a fiasco of an outing in the 2023 World Cup, then he played the five-match Test series against India as well. Only two 50s across formats throughout this period for England, none for Punjab Kings.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Shikhar Dhawan's absence could be a chance for Prabhsimran Singh, another chance out of the many he has got this season that is, to come good. Prabhsimran has looked woefully out of form and it had looked like PBKS may have moved on from him when they chose to open with Atharva Taide and Jonny Bairstow. However, Taide was dropped in the next game and PBKS somehow chose to send out stand-in skipper Sam Curran as opening partner to Prabhsimran. Wonder what combination they will throw up today.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans:

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Wriddhiman Saha only averages 16.4 in PowerPlays in IPL 2024 and has been dismissed five times in this phase. Moreover, Kagiso Rabada has great success against Saha in IPL, dismissing the batter four times albeit he's batted against the South African at a strike-rate of 150.