April 14, 2017

VIVO IPL 2017 season 10 13th encounter between Gujarat Lions vs Rising Pune Supergiants at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot on April 14, 2017 at 8:00 pm. Gujarat Lions with Andru Tye's 5 for 17 and excellent batting performances knees down Pune Supergiants by huge margins of 7 wickets with 12 balls to bowl. Andru Tye declared man of the match for his hat-trick and 5 wickets for 17 runs.

Gujarat Lions won the toss and elected to field first. Putting into bat by Gujarat, Pune lost AM Rahane early for no score. RA Tripathi and skipper SPD Smith took the charge in hand and played good cricket initialy. SPD Smith and RA Tripathi played quick cricket and made 43 and 33 respectively. BA Stokes also played good inning of 25 runs before left the field. In later overs MK Tiwary and Ankit Sharma played good innings of 31 and 25 runs to put Pune on good score of 171 runs in 20 overs. Andru Tye took hat-trick wicket in last over and bacame 2nd bowler in a day to picked hat-trick wickets. Earlier in day S Badree of RCB took hat-trick against Mumbai.

Following target of 172 runs, Gujarat Lions got firing start with DR Smith and BB McCullum as well. Both went after Pune's all bowlers rudely and upset RPS skipper SPD Smith very much. Both 93 runs just in 8.4 overs before DR Smith got out scoring very well 47 runs of just 30 balls. BB McCullum also missed his fifty and got out scoring 49 runs of 32 balls. with 5 fours and 3 massive sixes. SK Raina and AJ Finch bated till end and chased the given target in 18 overs having lost 3 wickets. Both made 35 and 33 runs respectively. Gujarat won the match by 7 wickets.

Player of the match - AJ Tye (GL)

Points - Gujarat Lions 2, Rising Pune Supergiant 0