After his team’s defeat in the Indian Premier League final, Gujarat Titans (GT) captain Shubman Gill said that 180-190 could have been a winning total and also commented on what has been another great season for the franchise.
However, GT maintained their great form in the IPL, reaching their second final in five years, but could not win the trophy for the second time as the team’s in-form top-three batters, skipper Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, and Jos Buttler failed to score. While the GT bowlers gave their best in the defence of 156 runs, the total was just not enough as Virat Kohli (75* in 42 balls, with nine fours and three sixes) guided RCB to a win.
“We knew we were playing the finals” – Shubman Gill
Speaking after the match, Shubman Gill said, “I think if we had gotten close to 180, 190, it would have been a good match. (On whether the surface was slow or two-paced) Honestly, not that much. You know, maybe a little bit. We have seen whenever we are playing, in the first three or four overs, there is a little bit of movement for the fast bowlers. We lost a couple of early wickets, and then we kind of lost the momentum in the middle; we could not really get going. But then we knew we were playing the finals. 150, 160, if we get a couple of early wickets in the powerplay, we are always in the game.”
Shubman Gill also regretted that the team “could not get over the line” and that there is always room for improvement too.
“The way we kept talking, kept pushing ourselves, kept challenging ourselves in different areas, and kept improving those 5 per cent factors. We could not get over the line, but there are always things that you could improve on. And even if we had won the trophy, there were still things that we felt as a group that we needed to work on,” he concluded.
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