In the first match of IPL 2023, defending champions Gujarat Titans defeated Chennai Super Kings by five wickets. Batting first, Chennai scored 178 runs for 7 wickets. Chasing the target, Gujarat won by losing five wickets. Hungergekar took three wickets for Chennai. At the same time, Shami, Alzarri Joseph, and Rashid Khan of Gujarat got two wickets.

Chasing the target, Gujarat's first wicket fell on 37 when Wriddhiman Saha was bowled out on a personal score of 25. He was made his victim by Hungergekar. Shubman Gill scored an inning of 63 runs while scoring a half-century and laid the foundation for Gujarat's victory. Captain Hardik Pandya scored 8 runs. Sai Sudarshan, who came to bat as an impact player, scored 22 runs. In the end Tewatia 15 not out and Rashid Khan 10 not out won the match with four balls to spare.

Rituraj Gaikwad is past the century
After winning the toss, Gujarat captain Hardik Pandya decided to bowl first. Chennai lost the wicket of Conway at the score of 14. After this, Moin Ali and Rituraj Gaikwad continued to score runs fast. Moeen's wicket fell on the score of 50. He played an inning of 23 runs. Ben Stokes scored 7 runs. Rayudu contributed 12 runs.

Wickets were falling from one end and Rituraj completed his half-century off 23 balls from the other end. Rituraj (92 runs) may have missed out on a century, but his fiery innings helped Chennai Super Kings post a challenging 178 against defending champions Gujarat Titans on Friday. Where Gaikwad played an inning of 92 runs in 50 balls, the rest of the Chennai batsmen were able to add 78 runs in 71 balls. Gaikwad hit 8 sixes in his innings.

Review on no-ball
In the 17th over, Gaikwad was caught by Shubman Gill on a full toss ball from Alzarri Joseph, but the ball looked waist-high. After this, the first DRS of IPL was taken for a no-ball, but it was not taken by the player but by the umpire. Although the third umpire also gave Gaikwad out.

Shami's hundredth wicket
Earlier, in the third over of Chennai's innings, Mohammed Shami dismissed Conway to take his 100th wicket in IPL. Kiwi batsman Conway got caught on Shami's inside ball and the ball uprooted his gills.

Both teams took impact players
Chennai roped in Tushar Deshpande as an impact player. He proved to be the most expensive bowler. He took one wicket for 51 runs in 4 overs. At the same time, Gujarat used Sai Sudarshan as an impact player in place of Kane Williamson.