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Gujarat Titans vs Lucknow Super Giants Match Scorecard: Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill's strong opening wicket 120-run partnership powered Gujarat Titans (GT) to 180/6 against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 at the Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow on Saturday.

Gill played a spectacular knock of 60 off 38, courtesy of six boundaries and one maximum while Sudharsan scored 56 in 37 balls, but the home bowlers made a valiant comeback, picking up three quick wickets to put a brake on the high scoring rate. For LSG, Ravi Bishnoi and Shardul Thakur took two wickets apiece, while Avesh Khan and Digvesh Rathi got one each.

Making a flying start, Sudharsan opened the innings with a boundary, punching Shardul Thakur (2/34) short delivery to the backward point. Both Sudharsan and Gill collected boundaries in almost every over, punishing the home bowlers.

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GT brought up their fifty in the sixth over when Sudharsan whipped a Avesh Khan delivery on the pads over the backward square-leg fence as the visitors scored 64 in the powerplay.

But it was Sudharsan who played the second fiddle as his skipper Gill effortlessly found boundaries with his clean and simple batting. Gill cut and pulled and also effortlessly went down the wicket to pick up his first six, straight over long-on off Aiden Markram.

The skipper brought up his half-century off just 31 balls with a single down the ground of Digvesh Rathi (1/30) in the ninth over. GT raced to 103 for no loss at the half-way mark.

Sudharsan, however, got a reprieve when Abdul Samad dropped him off Digvesh in the 11th over. He soon completed his fifty with a sweep to the fine leg boundary.

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It was raining boundaries from both the batters to all parts of the ground as LSG bowlers appeared clueless. LSG finally had the first breakthrough in the first ball of the 13th over, when Gill was caught brilliantly just inches from the long-on boundary by Markram off Avesh (1/32).

LSG struck another blow just after the final strategic timeout in the form of Sudharsan. Just after the break, the left-hander went for a lofted over extra cover of Ravi Bishnoi (2/36) but failed to get past Nicholas Pooran, who took a fine catch.

Bishnoi struck again in the same over when Washington Sundar dragged one onto his stumps. Jos Buttler failed to do much harm, falling to Rathi. Shardul was on a hat-trick in the final over but missed out on feat.