The only sign that Gujarat Titans lost this match was the fall of extra wickets. The more wickets fell the quicker the all-out was, this match lacked patient batsmen. Lucknow Super Giants have performed very well, they have performed quite well in batting but they have performed best in bowling. Yash Thakur and Krunal Pandya played a major role in winning this match due to their excellent bowling performance.
LSG bowlers must be commended for Gujarat's loss of extra wickets as LSG bowlers bowled well due to which GT batsmen could not hold their wickets. In some matches, the team wins due to the skill of the batsmen and in some matches, the batsmen of the opposite team are defeated by the brilliant bowling of the bowlers, resulting in the victory of the team with the complete contribution of the bowlers. Just as you blame gt's defeat only on the batsmen losing wickets, you can also appreciate the brilliant bowling of the lsg bowlers. If LSG's bowlers had bowled badly but the batsmen would have stayed on the wicket and if any batsman had stayed for the wicket the score would have been much higher. I hope I have made this very clear in my discussion.
The main reason for LSG's win was Yash Thakur and Krunal Pandya's excellent bowling. Yash Thakur took 5 wickets. Also Krunal's superb controlled bowling put Gujarat batsmen under a lot of pressure and lost the match. Krunal took only three wickets. But he gave only 11 runs in 4 overs. Yash took 5 wickets with 30 runs in 3.5 overs.
After giving LSG a target of 164 I don't think LSG can win this match. Moreover, Gujarat's two overs started well enough. Every batsman in Gujarat's squad is very experienced. Even then, the Gujarat team lost the match by 33 runs. I expected better batting from Gujarat players.
Gujarat have completed two seasons of IPL so far and this is their third season. Gujarat Titans won the IPL title in the first season and lost in the finals in the second season they were successful in the first two seasons. They have good batsmen and they have good bowlers which is why they have done so well in the first two seasons. We should have no doubts about the batting lineup of those who qualified in the first two seasons and played in the finals in the first two seasons.
If you don't give credit to LSG's bowlers for keeping such a strong batting line-up to so few runs then I'd say you're not talking from cricketing knowledge. LSG's bowlers certainly bowled the best and bowled economically as well as picking up wickets at regular intervals which is why they bowled so brilliantly against such a strong batting line-up.
Did you not read my post? I also said that LSG won this match only because of their brilliant bowling. If the bowlers don't perform well, LSG won't be able to win this match. Because on this pitch it was a very difficult task to win by giving a target of only 164 runs. However, LSG won the match by a huge margin of 33 runs.
Gujarat's batting order is one of the strongest batting order among the teams in this year's IPL. Sai Sudarshan, Gill, Williamson, Vijay, Rahul and Rashid Khan are all experienced batsmen for the T20 format. LSG bowlers bowled brilliantly against such experienced batsmen. Their bowling was very controlled. This is why the batting of Gujarat batsmen was very slow from the beginning of the innings.
I would say the turning point of this match was Krunal Pandya's ninth over. In this over Krunal pandya took 2 wickets giving only 3 runs. And even after this over, the Gujarat batsmen were under more pressure.