By India Today Sports Desk: Gujarat Titans captain Hardik Pandya was elated after his facet registered a crushing 55-run win over Mumbai Indians throughout the IPL 2023 match at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium.
Notably, GT rode on the bowling heroics of Noor Ahmad and Rashid Khan and batting prowess of Shubman Gill, David Miller and Abhinav Manohar to hammer five-time champions Mumbai Indians by 55 runs on Tuesday.
When requested about his captaincy, Hardik stated that it has his and head coach Ashish Nehra’s motto to take calls on the spot reasonably than pre-meditating and his captaincy works on instincts.
Hardik further addethat he and the coach have an identical mindset and often they once more their calls. The GT skipper moreover talked about that they used the spinners’ full quota throughout the heart overs as that they’d the ability to take wickets and didn’t want to take the game deep.
“That has been my motto, always taking calls on situations. T20 is very funny, a couple of sixes can change your mind. Captaincy is something I back my instincts on. I and Ashu Pa have a similar mindset, we back our calls and we have similar calls. Today, the idea of bowling Rashid and Noor was simple,” Hardik said throughout the post-match presentation ceremony.
“They like pace with Green and Tim David who are big hitters, and that’s why we wanted to offer them spin and offer them spinners that are difficult to read. Wanted to close the game early because a couple of games haven’t gone in our favour recently.
Gujarat Titans (GT) middle-order batsman Abhinav Manohar hit 42 off 21 balls to push his team to a massive total of 207-6 in 20 overs against the Mumbai Indians (MI) at Ahmedabad on Tuesday, April 25. Manohar, who came in at No. 6, exhibited a variety of skills as he delighted the home crowd with three boundaries and as many sixes.
The Karnataka-born batsman was acquired by the Gujarat Titans for 2.6 crores ahead of the 2022 season and impressed with key cameos in limited opportunities last year, scoring at a strike rate of 144 in seven innings.
“(On Abhinav Manohar) I really feel it is all laborious work, he bats 2 hours throughout the nets day-after-day it seems like. He’s been our best dying overs hitter. We spoke to him ultimate 12 months and there have been a variety of points he needed to improve on, and this 12 months he’s come out blazing,” Hardik added.