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Gujarat Titans (GT) captain Shubman Gill expressed his happiness, saying he is "very pleased to get over the line" after his team secured a thrilling one-run victory over Delhi Capitals (DC) in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 clash on Wednesday.
Batting first, GT posted 210/4, powered by half-centuries from Shubman Gill (70), Washington Sundar (55), and Jos Buttler (52). Rashid Khan (3/17) and Prasidh Krishna (2/52) played key roles with the ball for GT. Chasing 211, DC were led by a brilliant 92 from KL Rahul and a quick 41* from David Miller, but fell agonisingly short. With DC needing two runs off the last two balls, Miller chose not to take a single and then missed the final delivery, while attempting a run; Kuldeep Yadav was run out on the last ball, leaving DC stranded at 209/8. After the win, GT captain Shubman Gill said, "Very pleased to get over the line in this one. (on what he felt when Miller didn't take the run off the 5th ball?) We have a chance to win. (chat before the last ball with Prasidh) No, we were just discussing whether to go for the yorker or to go for the slower one. But, you know, we decided that giving the wicket how it's playing, the slower one, if you bowl a good slower one, it'll be difficult to hit that for a boundary," Gill said at the post-match presentation. Shubman Gill said that while a few extra runs were conceded due to fielding errors, every effort mattered in such a close one-run game. He added that on a slow wicket, 210 was above par, and with disciplined bowling, they were confident of securing the win. "Apart from the overthrows that I gave and the boundary that I gave, I think those 5-6 runs, obviously in fielding, it makes a difference, especially in a game like this, you see you're winning by one run. So every effort and every misfield or every good effort counts. Definitely very pleased, you know, 210. We always thought on this wicket, we are 10-15 runs above par. It won't be like even when we were batting in the death, it wasn't easy to hit the big boundaries, just hitting, the slowness of the wicket. And we thought if we bowl well, you know, we should be able to win this one," Gill said. With a win, GT are now placed sixth in the IPL 2026 points table with two points from three matches with a Net Run Rate (NRR) of -0.270. DC, on the other hand, occupy the fourth spot with four points in three matches with an NRR of +0.811. (ANI)
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