After IPL 2023, the Indian team is busy preparing for the World Test Championship, but the fans and former cricketers are still immersed in the excitement of this tournament. Everyone is talking about the good and bad memories associated with this tournament. Meanwhile, former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has said that Gujarat lost the final due to the mistake of captain Hardik Pandya and coach Ashish Nehra. Gavaskar has said this in the context of the last over of the match. In the last two balls of this over, Chennai won by scoring 10 runs.
What happened in the match?
Batting first, Gujarat scored 214 runs. Sai Sudarshan played an inning of 96 runs. At the same time, Saha also scored an excellent half-century. It rained three balls after Chennai started batting and when the game started for the second time, under the Duckworth-Lewis rule, Chennai had a target of 171 runs in 15 overs. In such a situation, Conway and Rituraj gave the team a great start. Both were dismissed in the same over, but Shivam Dubey and Ajinkya Rahane kept Chennai in the match. In the end, Rayudu took the team closer to victory by playing a good inning.
Mohit Sharma brought Gujarat back into the match by dismissing Rayudu and Dhoni in the same over. In the last over, Chennai needed 13 runs to win and Mohit Sharma gave only three runs in the first four balls. After this, coach Ashish Nehra sent water to Mohit along with some messages. At the same time, Captain Hardik Pandya also talked to him. After this, Mohit's next ball was hit for a six and Jadeja hit a four on the last ball to give Chennai a five-wicket win.
What did Gavaskar say?
Sunil Gavaskar talking about this match said "He bowled the first 3-4 balls brilliantly. Then, for some strange reason, some water was sent for him. In the middle of the over, some drink for him Sent. Then Hardik Pandya came and talked to him. You know when a bowler is in that rhythm and he is also mentally prepared, no one should have said anything to him. Maybe from a distance, they could just say 'Good bowling'. Going up to him, talking to him, I don't think it was the right thing to do because suddenly, he was looking here and there. Till then, he was focused and I don't think What he did was right. Because after that, he went for runs."
Mohit Sharma also told after the match that he could not sleep the whole night after bowling the last over. He was wondering what he could have done in the last two balls that would have won the match for his team.
