GT Gets Back On Top After Thier Win In DY Patil Staduim

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
TENE JOSHUA V ( TJ ) 
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From Coimbatore 


GT'S bowlers deliver its team and protects its run score against KKR's batsmen . 


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Earlier GT won the toss and chose to bat first  , Saha and  Gill walked in , soon opener Gill was dismised when he offered a catch to wk Billings . Next came in the skipper , Hardik Pandya , who started to keep the runs on the board increasing along with Saha , Hardik scored and unbeaten  67 off 49 balls . As soon as Saha got dismissed , Miller joined the party and smashed some boundary's  along with the skipper . 

But after the strikes of Miller and Hardik GT started to struggle , with wickets falling . In the final over Dre Russ took 4 wickets in a single over , missing a hat - tirick , in the end they managed to get 156 - 9  . 

The 2nd half , was intense with Billings and Narine sent back inside the starting 4 overs, the batsmen struglled a lot as the GT bowlers rattled the top order . But hope was revived as Rinku earned 35 runs and V.Iyer 17 . Then came the game changer of the match , Andre Russel , the moment he entered the balls where flying over the lines into the crowd . The bowlers were clearly trying to send him back , but  they could not .

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It was the final over and 18 was required of 6 balls , as expected Russ hit the first ball from Joseph a maximum . But the 2nd one was a twister , as he tried to shoot it for another maximum Ferguson catches it and dismisses him. 

It was the end of Russ and the end of KKR in this match as they were defeated in a close match . GT won by 8 runs.

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