Chennai: Gujarat Titans (CSK vs GT) defeated Chennai Super Kings at their home ground yesterday in the first match of Super Sunday. After that match, on Monday morning, there was an uproar on social media around a post by Shubman Gill.
Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill shared a picture of himself on social media. Sitting in the plane, Gil has a yellow flute in his hand. And the caption of the picture reads, ‘Nandri Chennai’, which means thank you Chennai. All the practice around this picture. Because CSK’s Anthem Whistle Podu’s symbol is yellow whistle. Thousands of CSK fans come to the field to watch the match with this yellow flute. With the passage of time, this flute has become a part of their team.
CSK fans feel that Gill is insulting their favorite team by posting this picture of him holding a flute after winning the match against the Yellow Brigade. Again, a section of netizens consider this post as just a great jab made in the guise of fun. All in all, needless to say, this one picture of Gill has created a buzz on social media.
Talking about the match, Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill won the toss and decided to bowl first. As the fast bowlers are favored at the start of the match on the Chipok pitch, as time goes on, the ball slows down a bit after the sun sets in, thereby helping the spinners too. CSK was under a lot of pressure from the beginning on such a pitch. CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad practically fought throughout the entire innings. But he did not give up. In the end, relying on his fighting half-century, CSK scored a fighting 158 runs.
In response, Sai and Shubman came down to chase the runs and put 58 runs on the board. Gujarat Captain. Hit 1 boundary and three sixes in his 23-ball innings of 33 runs. When Gill returned, Sai Sudarshan continued to move the scoreboard forward with Jos Buttler in tow. The young left-handed opener was in a devastating mood that day. He hit 4 boundaries and 7 sixes in a brilliant innings of 87 runs off 46 balls. Although he was out, Buttler played an innings of 39 runs off 30 balls. The English star hit 4 boundaries and 1 six. Sundar remains unbeaten by 1 run.
