BATSMAN OF GUJRAT TITANS TEAM SHUBHMAN GILL RECOUNTS HOW HARDIK PANDYA SHOWS CONFIDENCE ON HIM

In the Qualifier 2 match against Mumbai Indians, batsman of Gujrat Titans team Shubman Gill shows his excellence in batting by hitting 129 runs off 60 balls which included seven fours and ten sixes and helped his team to set down a score of 233/3.

    GT defeated MI by 62 runs to reach as the second team in Finals.Shubman Gill said that in the last season, Hardik Pandya had come to him and asked him to play the way he wants. Shubman also attributed Hardik for the faith he gave him to play the way Gill wants. "Last year before starting the IPL, he was the first person that came to me and told me to play how you want to play and I feel before getting a chance to play for GT, I felt I was trying to play as someone I wasn't and he gave me the confidence to be able to play how I want to play", the right-handed Titans opener said.

      Gill made the highest individual score in the IPL playoffs - after being dropped on 30 in the powerplay. He struck seven fours and ten sixes during his stay and powered Titans to 233 for 3, which proved 62 too many for Mumbai.

     Shubman Gill currently has 851 runs from 16 IPL 2023 matches and he also became the fourth player to hit 800 or more runs in a single season of the cash-rich league. Before Shubman, Virat Kohli, David Warner, and Jos Buttler were the other batsmen to achieve the milestone in the tournament.