Taking a leaf out of Virat Kohli’s books, Gujarat Titans’ Shubman Gill also scored his second straight 100 in this season’s Indian Premier League against the Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday.
He got to the milestone with 5 fours and 8 sixes as GT eliminated RCB from the competition with Mumbai Indians clinching the last play off spot. Another similarity he shared with Kohli is that the RCB batter’s last century was also against SRH while Gill too scored his ton against them last Monday.
Earlier, Kohli scored a record seventh Indian Premier League (IPL) century on Sunday but was unable to help Royal Challengers Bangalore claim the final playoff berth on offer as they slipped to a six-wicket defeat by Gujarat Titans.
Shubman Gill seals off the chase with a MAXIMUM 👏🏻👏🏻@gujarat_titans finish the league stage on a high 😎#TATAIPL | #RCBvGT pic.twitter.com/bZQJ0GmZC6
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Mumbai Indians will face the Lucknow Super Giants in Wednesday’s eliminator game, while Gujarat will take on the Chennai Super Kings in Tuesday’s playoff match.
Bangalore had their qualification fate in their own hands and looked on course for victory on Sunday after Kohli scored 101 runs off 61 balls – his second century in as many games.
The 34-year-old’s unbeaten knock, which saw him better Chris Gayle’s record of six IPL centuries, propelled Bangalore to a total of 197-5, though Noor Ahmad picked up two wickets to slow their momentum.
Gujarat made a poor start to their chase as they lost Wriddhiman Saha cheaply, but Gill and Vijay Shankar combined for a massive partnership of 123 runs to wrest back control of the contest from Bangalore.
Gill continued to plug away after Shankar was dismissed on 53 by Vijaykumar Vyshak, scoring a century (104) of his own to lead defending champions Gujarat to their 10th win of the season and break Bangalore’s hearts.
