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Batting first in the 51st match of IPL 2023, Gujarat Titans scored a big score of 227 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 20 overs. This is also Gujarat's biggest score in IPL. Only 2 wickets of Gujarat fell. Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill shared a 142-run partnership for the first wicket in 12.1 overs. This is the second-highest partnership for the first wicket in IPL 2023. Gill fell 6 runs short of his century. He scored an unbeaten 94 in 51 balls. Let us tell you that Gill scored his first century in International T20 against New Zealand in February at the Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad. He scored an unbeaten 126 runs. But, this time he failed to do so.
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Gill hit 7 sixes and 2 fours in his innings. Gill became the first batsman from Gujarat to hit the maximum number of sixes in a single innings of IPL. Before him, David Miller played an unbeaten inning of 94 runs in 51 balls against Chennai Super Kings in Pune last year and hit 6 sixes. This is Shubman's biggest score this season. He scored 50 plus for the fourth time in IPL 2023.
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Shubman Gill had a slow start in this match. He scored only 9 runs in the first 10 balls. But, after this, he hit 85 runs in 41 balls. He did not hit a single boundary till his half-century. He completed his 50 runs in 29 balls.
Shubman Gill has scored 447 runs in 11 matches played so far in IPL 2023 at a strike rate of 142. He has scored 4 half-centuries. He has hit 48 fours and 12 sixes.
