AHMED­ABAD – De­spite a cameo from Sher­fane Ruther­ford, the Gu­jarat Ti­tans still went down by 11 runs to the Pun­jab Kings when the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) con­tin­ued on Tues­day.

Play­ing at the Naren­dra Mo­di Sta­di­um, the Kings were led to vic­to­ry by cap­tain and Play­er-of-the-Match Shreyas Iy­er, who smashed an un­beat­en 97 from 42 balls with nine six­es and five fours, and whose in­nings was the back­bone of their mas­sive 243 for five from their 20 overs.

Open­er Priyansh Arya scored 47 from 23 balls and Shashank Singh blast­ed an un­beat­en 44 from 16 balls, to help the Kings plun­der 77 runs from the last five overs.

Left-arm spin­ner Sai Kishore grabbed 3-30 for the Ti­tans.

In their run chase, the Ti­tans got good con­tri­bu­tions from their top four, but could on­ly muster 232 for five in their 20 overs.

Open­er Sai Sud­harsan top­scored with 74 from 41 balls, Jos But­tler made 54 from 33, Ruther­ford made 46 from 28 balls af­ter com­ing on as a sub­sti­tute, and cap­tain Shub­man Gill scored 33 from 14 de­liv­er­ies.

Need­ing an im­prob­a­ble 27 runs from the fi­nal over for a mem­o­rable vic­to­ry, medi­um pac­er Ar­shdeep Singh con­ced­ed just 15 runs while al­so grab­bing Ruther­ford’s wick­et to seal the deal.

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