Jose Butler was stranded at 97, Virat Kohli’s record in the IPL of most centuries was missing by just three runs.
Gujarat Titans moved to the top of the IPL 2025 points table after chasing 204 with 7 wickets against Delhi’s capitals at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Saturday. GT won the victory of Jose Butler, who stood at 97 off 54 balls, disappeared from a record-summer ton.
If Butler scored the centenary, which Rahul Tawatia refused to kill six and four in the final, the British could equal Virat Kohli for most centuries in IPL history with eight tons.
Jose the boss
The top three in the points table are one of one of the logs, which is now in half the way in the tournament, with 3 teams- GT, DC and PBKS- 10 points from 7 matches. GT is at the top of the pile for its better net run-rate.
Jose Butler titled GT Chase with a surprising innings, and the main attraction of that knock came in 15th when he hit Michel Starc for 5 gradual borders in a 21 -run over.
Butler has been the top for his new IPL franchise after Rajasthan Royals let him go. He started the 2025 season with 54 and followed it with a score of 39, 73 Not Out, 0, 36 and 16 before the domestic game against Capital.
It was a good batting surface and had left for a flight to GT Sai Sudarson’s 21-Ball 36. The Southpow skipper was involved in the mix-up with Shubman Gill, who had gone out for 7, but he took herself to the onos to start the powerplay fast. Reformson was outfoxy by Kuldeep Yadav, but GT’s influence player Sherfen Rutherford played a stellar knock and joined a strong partnership with Butler to put the side of victory.
DC’s innings was away from fluently, but he still managed to receive a 200-plus total thanks to all his batsmen. He finally demolished the misforting Jake Fraser-Makegurk, and in the constant absence of FAF du Plessis, opened with DC Abhishek Poral and Karun Nair.
Exer Patel was the top scorer for DC with 39, but the cameo of Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Triston Stabs and Ashutosh Sharma helped DC in a stop-start innings. GT skipper Gill did not bowl Sai Kishore until Ishant Sharma struggled in the intense heat and could not bowl his full quota.
Meanwhile, Prasad Krishna caught the Orange Cap after a 14 -wicket race in the tournament after four wickets against DC.
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