IPL 2024: GT pacer Spencer Johnson unearths his chat with trainer Ashish Nehra amid MI conflict

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Gujarat Titans (GT) surprised the five-time IPL champions, Mumbai Indians (MI), with a slender six-run victory on Sunday, March 24. Chasing a reputedly achievable goal of 169, Mumbai’s batting collapsed dramatically after the dismissal in their skilled opener Rohit Sharma (43 off 29).

MI’s batting crumbles beneath power

With the exception of Dewald Brevis (46 off 38), no different middle-order batter may step up and take care of the power. A catastrophic cave in noticed them lose seven wickets for a trifling 53 runs, in the end falling wanting the objective. Regardless that their captain Hardik Pandya performed some large photographs in spite of everything, he couldn’t salvage the chase.

For Titans, bowlers held their nerves to safe a win. Medium pacer Mohit Sharma supplied a very powerful breakthroughs with two wickets in demise overs. Skilled campaigner Umesh Yadav additionally displayed his magic, choosing up the wickets of Hardik and Piyush Chawla on again to again deliveries regardless of being hammered for ten runs within the first two balls of the general over.

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Spenser Johnson redeems himself with Ashish Nehra’s steering

Making his IPL debut, younger Australian fast Spencer Johnson conceded 17 runs in his first over. Then again, he displayed remarkable resilience, adhering to move trainer Ashish Nehra‘s recommendation to stick calm. Johnson bounced again spectacularly, claiming two large wickets within the nineteenth over and swinging the sport again in favour of Gujarat.

“Completely improbable (feeling) to get the win in entrance of a complete home is lovely particular,” Johnson expressed to the reputable broadcaster after the fit.

Acknowledging his trainer’s phrases on the boundary rope, Johnson mentioned: “Ash (Ashish Nehra) informed me to be calm, you’re going to win the sport. What labored smartly for me was once the laborious duration and conserving calm and now not panicking and sticking to what I do smartly.”

The Titans will subsequent face the protecting champions, Chennai Tremendous Kings (CSK), in an away recreation on Tuesday, March 26.