It’s tremendous hitting, says Shubman Gill

The next match is at Ahmedabad, we've had a good run there. It was Suryavanshi's day, his hitting was tremendous and he made full use of it, Gill said

HYDERABAD: Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill felt that Rajasthan Royals took the game away from them in the powerplay.

“Credit to them for that. We could have done a couple of things better, but it’s easy to say those things when sitting out, some chances came our way and we didn’t take them,” Gill said in a post-match interaction with host broadcaster JioHotstar.

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“I sat out because I felt a back spasm, and didn’t want to take a chance,” he said of Rashid Khan leading when Rajasthan chased the target.

“The next match is at Ahmedabad, we’ve had a good run there. It was Suryavanshi’s day, his hitting was tremendous and he made full use of it,” Gill said.

For his part, Royals opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, who saw the carnage from Vaibhav Suryavanshi from the other end in the middle, said it was an incredible innings.

“One of the best I have seen. Hope he will do it for us for a long time. I was telling him to just keep going, incredible today,” Jaiswal said. “He just played amazing shots, he practises well, works hard in the hits. He has the game and temperament, wish him all the luck,” he said.

“We were talking that somebody needs to stay and finish the game after the last three games, I was there luckily today and tried my best. Our coach says one game at a time and we’ll give 100% each game,” Jaiswal said.

Royals captain Riyan Parag said at the presentation that Vaibhav’s innings was incredible. “We’ve spent two months with him, we have seen what he can do. But to see him do this against the world class bowlers GT has, can’t express it in words,” he said.

“We were thinking how we could finish this earlier, but with real intent, it came off. Big confidence booster, we were searching for this win, now taking it one game at a time,” Parag said.