May 01, 2017

VIVO IPL 2017 season 10 39th encounter between Rising Pune Supergiants vs Gujarat Lions at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune on May 01, 2017 at 8:00 pm. Putting into bat first by Pune, Gujarat got excellent start but middle and lower orders failed to kept momentum on and managed to put 161 runs for Rising Pune to get. Pune in reply lost 4 wickets early but Ben Stokes' powerfull 103* runs powered RPS to win over Gujarat by 5 wickets. Stokes declared man of the match for his excellent century.

Rising Pune Supergiant won the toss and elected to field first. Putting into bat first by Pune, Gujarat got excellent start with BB McCullum and Ishan Kishan initially. Both played quick cricket and added 55 runs in 6 overs before I Kishan lost his wicket scoring 31 runs of 24 balls. Skipper SK Raina failed to bat well and left the field scoring just 8 runs. AJ Finch 13 and DR Smith 0 were two consecutive ball wickets of Imran Tahir put Gujarat into big trouble to put huge score. BB MCCullum also went scoring well 45 runs of 27 runs in 12th over. KD Karthik played played some good inning for Gujarat and made 29 runs of 26 balls. Lions team all out in 19.5 overs and managed to put 161 runs for Pune to get.

Following target of 162 runs, Rising Pune lost three wickets just in 1.3 overs of 10 runs. Pune lost top four wickets in 42 runs and were in deep trouble in chasing 162 runs. BA Stokes and MS Dhoni came in middle and took the charge in hand for Gujarat. Both played superb cricket in middle overs and added 76 runs for 5th wicket before Dhoni got out scoring 26 runs. BE Stokes in later overs fired well and smashed his 1st century of IPL and presented Pune unbelievable win by 5 wickets win 1 ball spare to bowl. Stokes made 103* runs of 63 balls in his brave inning.

Player of the match - BA Stokes (RPS)

Points - Rising Pune Supergiants 2, Gujarat Lions 0.