Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune 29 April: The 25th match of Indian Premier League season 9, 2016 is today, and the winner today is the team Gujarat Lions Wins won by 3 wickets. And the Man of the Match is awarded to Dwayne Smith for his great performance with 63 runs in just 37 balls faced.
In the first innings, earlier today Rising Pune Supergiants won the toss and elected to bat first. And on the crease enters Rahane and S Tiwary to bat. Rahane was at first in very good form but Tiwary could not hold for a longer time and was out on P Kumar ball; enters Smith. Both the batsmen control the situation very well and soon by the end of 11th over RPS scores 100 runs along with Smith with his 50 runs. Rahane too got his half century after a few shots then, on 15th over Smith is down in Bravo Balls. Now enters MS Dhoni and there was also a huge increased in the score while in the meantime Smith is out on last over balled by Bravo. And finally, Dhoni wth a four have set the score of 195 runs for 3 wickets.
In the second innings, Gujarat Lions is one strike and enters Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum. Both the batsmen are in action and Brendon is on fire scoring 24 runs in just 10 balls with fours and sixes. And also, Dwayne Smith, with the fastest 100 runs without a loss in wickets until on 8th over balled by Bhatia, Brendon is caught out. Now enters Raina and on the Smith is bowled out by T Perera, enters Dinesh Karthik. Both the batsmen have brought a good hope for the team with their great performance. But then Karthik is caught out on Dinda ball, enters Bravo. Both Raina and Bravo chasing the target but on 18th over Bravo is caught out followed by Jadeja run out in the same over, Jadeja has just enter is out at 0 Run. Now Raina and Faulkner in the last over, but in the 3rd ball Raina is down and another wicket is down, Kisan is Run out balled by T Perera and finally Faulkner and Kumar have scored the winning runs and won the match by 3 wickets. Gujarat Lions scores 196runs for 7 wickets.
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