Mohammed Shami celebrates a wicket with teammates (IPLT20.COM)
Gujarat Titans flattened a hapless SRH side by 34 runs in match number 62 of the ongoing IPL 2023 season. Notably, despite being a relatively moderate scoring affair, the contest featured numerous single-digit scores, including four ducks, from batters across both sides.
As it turned out, fast bowlers from the two teams put up a rare exhibition at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium, as they accounted for 17 of the 18 wickets that fell in the contest. The only remaining victim fell to a runout as spinners were denied a wicket throughout the course of 40 overs bowled in the evening.
Pacers’ wickets galore in GT vs SRH as match creates new record
Gujarat Titans put up 188-9 upfront courtesy of Shubman Gill’s maiden IPL ton. However, the cricketer became one of the five victims of Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s skilful pace bowling, as the SRH speedster finished his spell with 5-30.
Later, Titans’ speedsters Mohammed Shami and Mohit Sharma jolted SRH in the run-chase with identical four-wicket hauls off their respective four overs. Young pacer Yash Dayal claimed the only other wicket from the SRH innings in their 154-9 response.
The match, featuring 17 wickets from the fast bowlers, broke an all-time IPL record of a single match haul by pacers. Previously, the competing speedsters from the two participating sides had taken 15 wickets in a game on four occasions in IPL lore.
The last of those four instances came last season with a match between Titans and KKR. Here is a list of all IPL games featuring 15 or more wickets from fast bowlers:
17 wickets - GT v SRH at Ahmedabad, 2023
15 wickets - KTK v DEC at Kochi, 2011
15 wickets - CSK v RCB at Chennai, 2015
15 wickets - SRH v DC at Hyderabad, 2019
15 wickets - GT v KKR at Mumbai, 2022
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