GG vs MT Highlights: Gujarat Giants WINS thriller Match, Parthiv Patel STARS as Gujarat Giants defeat Manipal Tigers by 2 wickets: Watch LLC 2022 Highlights

GG vs MT Highlights: Legends League Cricket – Gujarat Giants Win by 2 wickets – Parthiv Patel proved that he still retains his reputation of being a pocket-sized powerhouse as he played a sparkling knock on Monday to help the Virender Sehwag-captained Gujarat Giants claim a thrilling two-wicket victory over Harbhajan Singh’s Manipal Tigers in the fourth match of the Legends League Cricket (LLC). Follow GG vs MT & LLC 2022 Live Updates with InsideSport.IN.

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GG vs MT Highlights: Gujarat Giants WINS thriller Match, Parthiv Patel STARS as Gujarat Giants defeat Manipal Tigers by 2 wickets – Check Highlights

GG vs MT Highlights: Gujarat Giants WINS thriller Match, Parthiv Patel STARS as Gujarat Giants defeat Manipal Tigers by 2 wickets – Check Highlights

With this win, the Giants have now won two out of two to occupy the top spot in the points table. On a challenging pitch at the BRSABV Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, Parthiv treated the fans with some breathtaking stroke-play. The former India wicketkeeper-batter, who boasts a T20 strike rate of 123.84, changed the complexion of the match after the Giants struggled at the beginning of their chase of a 121-run target.

Chris Mpofu, a former Zimbabwe pacer, dismissed Sehwag and Tillakaratne Dilshan in the second over of the Giants’ chase. But Parthiv took the attack to the opposition camp by hitting three consecutive boundaries in the third over, bowled by Englishman Ryan Sidebottom.

Parthiv followed that up with a six and three more fours in the next over, bowled by Mpofu. The left-handed batter was finally out for 34 off just 17 balls, but by then he had made the Tigers bowlers shaky. The Tigers tried to claw their way back late in the match with master spinners Harbhajan (2/23) and Muttiah Muralidharan (2/10) picking up four wickets between them.

GG vs MT Highlights: Gujarat Giants WINS thriller Match, Parthiv Patel STARS as Gujarat Giants defeat Manipal Tigers by 2 wickets – Check Highlights

The Giants were pegged back, but Graeme Swann hit two fours in the 17th over to release the pressure. The Giants finally won in 17.2 overs when Murali bowled a wide ball. After the Gujarat Giants won the toss and chose to field, Sehwag’s bowlers, almost all of them, bowled an impeccable line and length to make the life of the Tigers difficult.

The pace trio of Ashok Dinda, Mitchell McClenaghan and Rayad Emrit continuously kept up the pressure on the Tigers’ batters. The Tigers lost three wickets within the Powerplay and lack of boundary balls meant they could not get too many runs either. After six overs, they could manage only 24/3, losing the wickets of Shivakant Shukla, Swapnil Asnodkar and Tatenda Taibu.

Mohammad Kaif (24) was expected to bail the team out and he did his best sharing a 55-run partnership with Ravikant Shukla (32). Tigers’ skipper, Harbhajan, connected a few meaty blows in the death overs, hitting two sixes and a boundary, to propel the total. But clearly that was not enough on the day.

GG vs MT Highlights: Gujarat Giants WINS thriller Match, Parthiv Patel STARS as Gujarat Giants defeat Manipal Tigers by 2 wickets – Check Highlights

Gujarat Giants Scorecard:

Batsmen		R	B	4S	6S	SR
Virender Sehwag (C)	c P Awana b CB Mpofu	1	2	0	0	50.00
Kevin O’Brien	c Corey Anderson b P Awana	23	19	1	2	121.05
Tillakaratne Dilshan	b CB Mpofu	0	2	0	0	0.00
Parthiv Patel (WK)	c SS Shukla b P Awana	34	17	6	1	200.00
Lendl Simmons	c SS Shukla b H Singh	12	16	1	0	75.00
Thisara Perera	c T Taibu b H Singh	22	20	4	0	110.00
Joginder Sharma	b M Muralitharan	12	17	0	0	70.59
Yashpal Singh	Not out	2	5	0	0	40.00
Graeme Swann	lbw b M Muralitharan	9	6	2	0	150.00
Rayad Emrit	Not out	0	1	0	0	0.00
Extra	6 (b 0, w 5, nb 1, lb 0)
Total	121/8 (17.2)
Yet To Bat	MJ McClenaghan, KP Appanna, Ashok Dinda

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON
Ryan Sidebottom	2	0	16	0	8.00
Chris Mpofu	2.5	0	26	2	9.18
Pardeep Sahu	3	0	33	0	11.00
Parvinder Awana	3	0	13	2	4.33
Harbhajan Singh	4	0	23	2	5.75
Mohammad Kaif	0.1	0	0	0	0.00
Muttiah Muralitharan	2.2	0	10	2	4.29

Manipal Tigers Scorecard: 

Batsmen		R	B	4S	6S	SR
Shivakant Shukla	runout (Parthiv Patel / KP Appanna)	11	11	2	0	100.00
Swapnil Asnodkar	b RR Emrit	5	11	0	0	45.45
Mohammad Kaif	b Ashok Dinda	24	29	2	1	82.76
Tatenda Taibu (WK)	b Ashok Dinda	1	4	0	0	25.00
Ravikant Shukla	lbw b TM Dilshan	32	32	2	0	100.00
Pardeep Sahu	runout (Ashok Dinda / TM Dilshan)	10	6	0	1	166.67
Corey Anderson	st Parthiv Patel b TM Dilshan	5	12	0	0	41.67
Harbhajan Singh (C)	c RR Emrit b T Perera	18	9	1	2	200.00
Parvinder Awana	Not out	2	4	0	0	50.00
Ryan Sidebottom	Not out	0	2	0	0	0.00
Extra	12 (b 0, w 5, nb 0, lb 7)
Total	120/8 (19.6)
Yet To Bat	CB Mpofu

BOWLING	O	M	R	W	ECON
Ashok Dinda	4	0	22	2	5.50
Mitchell McClenaghan	2	0	6	0	3.00
Rayad Emrit	2	0	5	1	2.50
Graeme Swann	4	0	26	0	6.50
KP Appanna	3	0	20	0	6.67
Thisara Perera	3	0	16	1	5.33
Tillakaratne Dilshan	2	0	18	2	9.00

Gujarat Giants (Playing XI): Virender Sehwag(c), Kevin O Brien, Parthiv Patel(w), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lendl Simmons, Thisara Perera, Rayad Emrit, Graeme Swann, KP Appanna, Mitchell McClenaghan, Ashok Dinda

Manipal Tigers (Playing XI): Ravikant Shukla, Swapnil Asnodkar, Corey Anderson, Mohammad Kaif, Tatenda Taibu(w), Pardeep Sahu, Shivakant Shukla, Harbhajan Singh(c), Ryan Jay Sidebottom, Chris Mpofu, Parvinder Awana