GT defeated KKR at their home, won by 39 runs and topped the points table with Shubman Gill:

In the 39th match of IPL 2025, Gujarat Titans have defeated Kolkata Knight Riders in their house. Batting first after losing the toss, Gujarat scored 198 runs in 20 overs thanks to Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan’s half -century. In response, KKR’s team could score 159 runs after losing 8 wickets. With this victory, Shubman Gill & Company has reached the top of the point table.

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Earlier, KKR won the toss and invited Gujarat to bat first. Shubman Gill, playing the captaincy innings, scored 90 runs from 56 balls at a strike rate of more than 150. Sai Sudarshan scored 52 runs off 36 balls and shared a strong opening of 114 runs with Gill. Jose Butler remained unbeaten and took 41 runs off 23 balls to bring GT around 200.

Talking about bowling, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana and Andre Russell took 1-1 wickets for KKR. Sunil Narayan and Varun Chakraborty bowled tight, but they did not succeed in taking wickets.

KKR had to struggle initially to chase 199 runs. The team lost the wickets of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Sunil Narayan quickly. The team’s score reached 43/2 by 5.3 overs. However, Ajinkya Rahane and Venkatesh Iyer (14) tried to handle the innings.

Rahane scored 50 runs in the captaincy innings. In the end, despite the efforts of Rinku Singh (17), Andre Russell (21) and Angkrish Raghuvanshi (27*), KKR could score 159 runs after losing 8 wickets. Rashid Khan took 2 wickets. The famous Krishna also got two wickets. Mohammad Siraj, Ishant Sharma, Washington Sundar and Sai Kishore took 1–1 wickets.

With this victory, the Gujarat Titans team has reached the top of the point table. At the same time, Shubman Gill was adjudged Player of the Match for batting in the match.