GT captain Hardik Pandya gets RR captain Sanju Samson run out for 11 after hitting 87 runs in 52 balls in the first innings in the 24th match of IPL 2022 at the Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai on April 14. Pandya was standing at mid-on when Samson drove the ball towards him and started running for a run, Pandya picked up the ball and aimed a perfect throw to get Samson out. Earlier, Pandya pulled his team out of trouble with a 33-ball fifty against RR. Hardik first found an able ally in Abhinav Manohar before he exploded in the company of David Miller to power the IPL debutants to their highest score of the tournament. Hardik and Manohar shared an 86-run stand for the fourth wicket before the skipper and Miller blasted 53 off 25 balls to end the innings in style.
After put into batting, Gujarat found themselves reeling at 53/3. While Hardik’s 52-ball knock was studded with eight fours and four sixes, Manohar struck four fours and two sixes. Miller hit five boundaries and a six, scored 21 runs in the penultimate over off Kuldeep Sen.
Hardik was aggressive on pacer Kuldeep as he hammered him for three successive boundaries in the fifth over. He then fetched his first maximum in the seventh over, when he clobbered Riyan Parag over his head.
They raised themselves when Manohar launched into inform Chahal, hammering him for a four and maximum, a hit inside-out drive over cover. They took on Kuldeep, hammering him for three boundaries in the 14th over, where Hardik also marked his fifty, with a cut towards backward point fence.
