IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Highlights: Gujarat beat Punjab by three wickets

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Kolkata Knight Riders have scored 222/6 batting first against RCB. It makes it the 16th time this season that a team has breached the 200-run mark.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: There were fears that the burden of captaincy is having an adverse effect on Shubman Gill's batting form in the early part of the season. However, the GT captain has picked up pace since. At the same time, though, he is nowhere close to providing the big scores consistently the way he did last season but to his credit, he has not allowed his strike rate to be compromised. Gill has scored 263 runs this season at a strike rate of 151.14 with two half-centuries.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: David Miller's season has been disrupted by injuries and this, in turn, has disrupted GT's season. Miller's consistency to provide the required impact on GT's innings without compromising on his strike rate has been a big reason behind their success in the last two seasons. Now that he's fit again, the team will be looking to him to take control of their middle order.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Jitesh Sharma was among the breakthrough players in the last two seasons and among the frontrunners for the wicketkeeper position in the Indian T20 World Cup team before the start of IPL 2024. Seven innings into it though, his hopes are fading. Jitesh has been unable to cross 30, and showing worrying signs of regression against pace bowling - average of 11.8 and strike rate of 109.2 in 2024 as opposed to 33.7 and 182.4 in his breakout year in 2022.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: A major reason for whatever success Punjab Kings have come across this season is the show put on by Ashutosh Sharma and Shashank Singh. The two relatively unknown names have put up some of the most spectacular lower order shows in a season where we have a dearth of big-hitters. They have contributed 343 runs at a strike rate of 190 and average of 57. The rest of Punjab have contributed 820 runs at a strike rate of 127 and an average of 20.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Shikhar Dhawan has not played since their home game against SRH on April 9. He is yet to fully recover from his shoulder injury and Sam Curran could be captain today as well.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: These two teams have faced each other four times and each have won twice. Interestingly, each of the four matches between these two sides have been won by the chasing team, with three of them going right down to the wire.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: The Salt assault began and, fortunately for RCB, ended before it did too much damage. Salt went berzerk on Lockie Ferguson in the fourth over with KKR batting first, smashing 28 runs in it and racing to 48 off 13 balls. However, he fell off the second ball of the next over to Siraj. Just how badly is this going to end for RCB considering KKR's current form, only time will tell.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: This is the year of top order batters going berzerk in the powerplay and breaking records almost every week. Or that is the case with SRH and KKR and to a certain extent, RR. Not for GT or PBKS though. Punjab's top five averages just 19.4, the lowest in the league. GT's top five have an average of 24.5, the second lowest.

IPL 2024 PBKS vs GT Live Score, Punjab Kings vs Gujarat Titans: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Shubman Gill(c), Sai Sudharsan, David Miller, Abhinav Manohar, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Rashid Khan, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad, Spencer Johnson, Sandeep Warrier, Sharath BR, Darshan Nalkande, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Manav Suthar, Matthew Wade, Vijay Shankar, Umesh Yadav, Kane Williamson, Jayant Yadav, Joshua Little, Kartik Tyagi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Sushant Mishra