The all-important match between SunRisers Hyderabad and Gujarat Titans (SRH vs GT) at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in the ongoing IPL 2024 has been abandoned due to rain (no toss).

SRH qualified for the playoff

With the match being abandoned, SRH qualified for the playoffs, but this washed out their hopes of a top-two finish as well. While they need to beat Punjab on Sunday, Rajasthan also need to lose their final group game as well. For Gujarat Titans, the win won’t change their fate as well as they are already knocked out of the playoff race. Now either Chennai Super Kings or Royal Challengers Bengaluru will qualify for the final 4, depending on the last few league matches as well.

However, GT had a poor show in this season. They have managed five wins and seven losses so far. Ahead of this game, Shubman Gill, the Gujarat Titans captain opened up on the team’s early exit in IPL 2024. The absence of key players, losing close matches and a below-par fielding performance in the season are a few reasons for their poor shows as well.

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Gujarat Titans didn’t have a great season in IPL 2024

While Hardik Pandya moved to Mumbai Indians, Mohammed Shami was forced to miss the tournament due to an injury as well. Moreover, Rashid Khan just returned from an injury and wasn’t at his best of form. David Miller and Wriddhiman Saha also struggled with niggles as well.

“We’ve been a bit up and down this season. It’s important in a big season like this to be balanced as a team and as a performing unit, which we were not able to do this season,” said Gill. “It’s never easy. Some of our key players got injured before the season and in the season as well we have had some injuries. It’s never easy when you have had injuries in between and our team was such we had to completely change our team combination in between, because of some players getting injured. And then it’s not easy for some players coming in to be able to perform straightaway.”

“Apart from that I think it’s just a matter of one match… one match here and there. The match that we lost against Delhi by one run. A match like that could go either way, which I think in the first couple of years a lot of our matches like that went in our favour. At the end of the day, winning and losing, the margin is so close it’s hard to identify or pinpoint a moment or a particular area. But I think collectively as a fielding unit we let ourselves down in some of the key moments,” Shubman Gill concluded.