That does it for this game. What a Friday this has been. Low-scoring thriller, high-scoring scorcher, and of course, highlight of the day - and who would have thought this would happen- two hat-tricks in a day. We hope you enjoyed all of it, as well as our coverage. Double-header again tomorrow and it promises plenty of action. Come back then to join us. For now, goodbye from all of us here. Thank you for joining us.

"It's a good format of cricket, but traditionally, I would still love to play Test cricket. The slower ball worked very well for me", says Andrew Tye, Man of the Match. "Every wicket is different around the world, so you have to assess conditions to find out which ball works where."

"I think when we lost two games, it was difficult for us to come back strongly", says Lions captain Suresh Raina. "I thought AJ bowled brilliantly. He is a very smart cricketer who varies his pace, especially in the death overs. Jason Roy missed out today, but then Baz and Smith did it for us. They have done it for CSK and they did it again today."

Aditi: "Cricket has become so brutal. Fun but alien. And there are kids watching for whom this is how it's played."

11.16pm That was some display of power hitting. Dwayne Smith and Brendon McCullum, how many times they have done this? It was an opening burst that simply razed Supergiant and they never quite recovered from that despite a few wickets in the middle overs. Lions win with two overs to spare and this will come in handy for their poor net run rate.

Abdullah: "Today, I felt that the young local fast bowlers, Basil Thampi and Shardul Thakur did pretty well, but they go unnoticed due to other dominant performances, am I right Akshay?" Absolutely. Thakur, especially. And his change-ups in pace in his final over were pretty impressive.

gulzar: "What a fantastic bowling both by s badree and andrew tye"

Akshay: "I still wonder why GL tried different combination than last year in few matches, this team looks strong. Just missing Bravo"

"I don't think that wicket really changed over the course of 40 overs," says Supergiant captain Steven Smith. "It was a pretty good wicket. We got ourselves into a good position but lost a few wickets in clumps and we weren't good enough tonight. The surface played better than we thought it would. When Dwayne and McCullum get going, it's hard to stop them and we could not come back after that. One of the disadvantages of being a new team, Gujarat are on the same boat, we are still trying to find out our best XI. A few guys put their hands up tonight, which was good."

17.6

Ferguson to Finch, SIX runs

and this time he targets long-on. Uses the depth of the crease and shifts back in the crease. Lofted off the pads with a straight bat and he pummels it clean and straight over the boundary. Seals the game with back-to-back sixes.

17.5

Ferguson to Finch, SIX runs

that's a biggie. Powerful wrists. Angling in at pace, 145 kph, on the pads and Finch flicks it off the pads, a long way into the stands over deep square leg

17.4

Ferguson to Finch, 2 runs

too full, drilled hard past midwicket who runs to his left but fails to get down completely

17.3

Ferguson to Raina, 1 run

full, outside off, pushed down to mid-off for a single

17.2

Ferguson to Finch, 1 run

full, pushed to mid-on for a single

17.1

Ferguson to Finch, FOUR runs

dropped. Imran Tahir with a shoddy effort at deep backward square leg. Fullish length, angling in, flicked off the pads uppishly and Tahir is slightly late in reacting to it. Puts it down and to his horror, watches the ball go past the boundary

Sashi Kurucheti: "Finally some redemption for Andrew Tye.. Remember him bowling the 20th over in IndvAus 3rd t20 last year and one other match too, and being at the receiving end on both occasions unable to defend some big runs.."

17.1

Ferguson to Finch, 1 wide

short, angling down leg, Finch tries to pull and misses

end of over 175 runs

GL: 151/3CRR: 8.88 • RRR: 7.00

Suresh Raina34 (21b 4x4 1x6)

Aaron Finch14 (14b 2x4)

Shardul Thakur 3-0-14-1

Imran Tahir 4-0-53-1

16.6

•

Thakur to Raina, no run

short ball, goes over leg stump, ducked under

16.5

•

Thakur to Raina, no run

short of a length at 119kph, knocked back to the bowler

16.4

Thakur to Finch, 1 run

slower short ball, good change in pace, Finch picks it, waits for it and watchfully pulls it away to deep midwicket

16.3

Thakur to Raina, 1 run

low full toss outside off, flicked out to deep midwicket

16.2

Thakur to Raina, 2 runs

full, wide, driven superbly off the front foot to the left of sweeper for a couple

The 10 boundaries conceded by Imran Tahir are his most in an innings in T20Is and IPL.

16.1

Thakur to Finch, 1 run

short and wide, jumps up to ride the bounce and swats it away to sweeper cover for one

end of over 1613 runs

GL: 146/3CRR: 9.12 • RRR: 6.50

Suresh Raina31 (17b 4x4 1x6)

Aaron Finch12 (12b 2x4)

Imran Tahir 4-0-53-1

Ben Stokes 3-0-18-0

Strategic timeout.

Aditi: "One more hattrick please. "

15.6

Tahir to Raina, FOUR runs

and he overcompensates with the line. Tries to not give him any room but Raina gets down and sweeps through deep backward square leg, beats the man in the deep to his left

15.5

Tahir to Raina, FOUR runs

look at that for placement. Pitched up outside off, gets a good stride out to meet the pitch of the ball and lofts it over extra cover. Splits sweeper and long-off

15.4

Tahir to Finch, 1 run

punched to long-on off the backfoot

15.3

Tahir to Finch, FOUR runs

hit extremely hard and beats long-off running to his left. Finch uses the depth of the crease and shifts back before carving it through extra cover. Shovels it hard and no chance for the fielder

15.2

•

Tahir to Finch, no run

on a length, waits for it to turn and knocks it to covers

15.1

•

Tahir to Finch, no run

short and spinning away, stabs it to point

Tahir back for his last over

end of over 1510 runs

GL: 133/3CRR: 8.86 • RRR: 7.80

Suresh Raina23 (15b 2x4 1x6)

Aaron Finch7 (8b 1x4)

Ben Stokes 3-0-18-0

Rahul Chahar 3-0-26-1

14.6

Stokes to Raina, FOUR runs

short of a length, outside off, punched uppishly and just how well has he played that. Superb timing and even better placement. Beats sweeper cover running to his left

Win Probability

GL 100%

RPSGL

100%50%100%

Over 18 • GL 172/3

Guj Lions won by 7 wickets (with 12 balls remaining)

Match Coverage

All Match News