STATS HIGHLIGHTS
Follow UsGT came into this game against CSK with everything on the line. They had to win in order to keep their slim qualification chances alive.
On the night, captain Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan joined hands and had one of the best partnerships in IPL history as their 210-run opening stand shattered numerous records. Plus, the two youngsters achieved a very rare feat, becoming only the second opening pair in IPL history to smash two individual tons in the same innings.
Here is the complete list of all records that were either broken or equalled in Ahmedabad tonight.
A record-breaking opening stand
Sudharsan and Gill together had a 210-run partnership for the first wicket. This was the joint-highest opening partnership in IPL history, equaling KL Rahul & Quinton de Kock's unbeaten 210-run partnership against KKR in IPL 2022.
Superman Shubman Gill
Gill scored his 6th T20 century, joining his fellow Indian team mates Ruturaj Gaikwad, Suryakumar Yadav and KL Rahul as the Indian batters with the joint third-most tons in T20s.
Most centuries for an Indian in T20s
9 - Virat Kohli
8 - Rohit Sharma
6 - Shubman Gill, KL Rahul, Ruturaj Gaikwad & Suryakumar Yadav
Gill scored his fourth ton at Ahmedabad in T20s. He became one of the four batters to score 4+ centuries at a venue in T20s (3 in IPL and 1 in T20I).
Players scoring 4 or more tons at a venue in T20s
5 - Chris Gayle, Mirpur
4 - Virat Kohli, Bengaluru
4 - Michael Klinger, Bristol
4 - Shubman Gill, Ahmedabad
Gill's century has been etched in the history books as it became the 100th century in IPL.
IPL landmark tons
1st - Brendon McCullum - 158* vs RCB, 2008
25th - Shane Watson - 101 vs CSK, 2013
50th - Rishabh Pant - 128* vs SRH, 2018
75th - Jos Buttler - 106* vs RCB, 2022
100th - Shubman Gill - 103 vs CSK, 2024
One innings, Two centurions
Ahmedabad tonight witnessed one of the most unique occurrences, of two batters scoring a century in the same innings in an IPL game. Gill and Sudharsan joined Virat Kohli-AB de Villiers and David Warner-Jonny Bairstow to become only the third batting pair to score individual centuries in an IPL innings.
Sai shines bright
Sudharsan had a few records to his name as well as the 22-year-old became the fastest Indian to reach 1000 IPL runs, reaching the milestone in just 25 innings. He shattered the previous record of 31 innings, which was jointly held by Sachin Tendulkar and Gaikwad.
Fastest to 1000 runs for an Indian in IPL (by innings)
25 – Sai Sudharsan
31 – Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sachin Tendulkar
33 – Tilak Varma
34 – Yashasvi Jaiswal
35 - Rishabh Pant, Devdutt Padikkal
Trivia: In Sai Sudharsan's first 25 innings in IPL, the first 23 were double digit scores. His 24th was a single digit score and his 25th was a triple digit score
Also, on the night, Sudharsan scored his first T20 ton. Incidentally, his previous best T20 score also came against CSK in Ahmedabad.
Highest score for Sai Sudharsan in T20s
103* vs CSK, 2024
96 vs CSK, 2023
84* vs RCB, 2023
65* vs PBKS, 2022
Centuries galore
The centuries from Gill and Sudharsan notched up a tournament record as this season of IPL has seen most individual centuries with a total of 14 hundreds being smashed in the season so far.
Most centuries in an IPL season
14 - 2024
12 - 2023
8 - 2022
7 – 2016
GT hand CSK a Titanic punishment
GT ended up posting 231 for 3 at the end of 20 overs. This was the joint-highest total against CSK, equaling the 231 for 4 by PBKS in 2014.
Highest Total against CSK in IPL
231/3 - GT, 2024
231/4 - PBKS, 2014
226/6 - PBKS, 2014
223/5 - RR, 2010
Mitchell's Mixed Outing
Daryl Mitchell had a hot and cold day on the field as the all-rounder bowled his most expensive spell in T20s. He tried to rectify the error by smashing a wonderful fifty but that was unfortunately not enough for CSK to win the game. In the process, he became the sixth player in IPL to score a fifty with the bat and concede 50+ runs with the ball in the same game.
