New Delhi: The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 season started with a bang. The first match between Gujarat Titans (GT) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) was played at Ahmedabad Narendra Modi Stadium, in which Gujarat Titans captained by Hardik Pandya won against CSK by 5 wickets. However, on the very next day, Gujarat Titans got a big blow. New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has been ruled out for the entire season due to an injured knee.
The IPL kicked off on Friday (March 31) with a grand opening ceremony. After that, in the first match of the season, Gujarat Titans defeated Chennai Super Kings by 5 wickets. Kane Williamson got injured in this match and was out of the tournament. Kane Williamson, the star player of the team, who was bought by Gujarat Titans in a mini auction for Rs. Bought for 2 crores, he is now reported to be out for the entire season. Let us tell you that in the first match of the season, Williamson made a dangerous attempt to block a six against CSK. He saved the run but got himself seriously injured.
Williamson was injured trying to take a catch
This incident took place in the 13th over during the innings of Chennai Super Kings in the match. In this over, opener Rituraj Gaikwad played an aerial shot, on which Williamson tried to take a catch. Despite jumping in the air on the boundary, Williamson could not take the catch, but saved some runs for sure for the team. But at the same time he fell down and seriously injured Williamson’s knee. He was immediately carried off the field. After that, Sai Sudarshan was fielded as an impact player in his place. Sudarshan was also batting as an impact player. Now Williamson is out of the tournament due to this injury.
In this way, Gujarat won the match by 5 wickets
After losing the toss in the match, the Chennai team, who came to bat first, scored 178 runs for 7 wickets. Opener Rituraj Gaikwad scored 92 runs in 50 balls. He hit 9 sixes and 4 fours in his innings. While Moeen Ali scored 23 runs and Shivam Dubey scored 19 runs. Rashid Khan, Alzari Joseph and Mohammad Shami took two wickets each from Gujarat. In response to the target of 179 runs, the Gujarat team won the match with four balls to spare. Shubman Gill was the highest scorer with 63 runs. At the same time, Vijay Shankar scored 27 and Wriddhiman Saha scored 25 runs. Rashid Khan was the player of the match.