captain of gujarat titans Shubman Gill admitted that he could introduce Prasidh Krishna Before the ball, Punjab Kings chased down the target and won by three wickets in their first IPL match on Tuesday.Gill said after the match, “I could have included Prasidh earlier, but we stayed in the game till the end, there will always be ifs and buts. But he came at the right time, took wickets and kept us in the game till the 17th and 18th overs.”Punjab Kings were led by Cooper Connolly, who scored 72 off 44 balls on debut, helping his team chase 163 with five balls to spare. Prabhsimran Singh scored 37 runs in 24 balls and both added 76 runs for the second wicket.Earlier, Yuzvendra Chahal took 2/28 in four overs to control the middle phase, while Vijaykumar Vaishyak took 3/34, restricting Gujarat Titans to 162/6.For Gujarat Titans, Gill scored 39 runs in 27 balls and Jos Buttler scored 38 runs in 33 balls.Punjab Kings suffered an early blow when Kagiso Rabada dismissed Priyansh Arya while debutant Ashok Sharma was caught at midwicket.After this Connolly and Prabhasimran brought the innings back on track. Rashid Khan later dismissed Prabhsimran, who was caught at long-on.Shreyas Iyer hit two sixes off Ashok Kumar, but soon afterwards he was dismissed by Washington Sundar off the bowling of Prasidh Krishna at deep midwicket.Sundar also dismissed Nehal Wadhera, while Krishna took the wickets of Shashank Singh and marcus stoinis To bring Gujarat Titans back into the match immediately.Krishna was brought into the attack in the 13th over when Punjab needed 53 runs from 48 balls and he dismissed Iyer on his very first ball.Despite the wickets, Connolly held on till the end and hit five sixes and five fours to lead Punjab Kings to victory.“I think we bowled very well, we just didn't get going (batting) in the last five or six overs, it wasn't a 200 wicket but if we had 175 it would have been different, but we kept losing wickets and we couldn't get going in the last five overs,” Gill said.
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