Why Shubman Gill Not Playing Today: Shubman Gill is not playing in the match against Rajasthan Royals. In his absence, Rashid Khan came to toss for Gujarat Titans, who is captaining GT in this match. What is the reason behind Rashid Khan suddenly getting the captaincy?

Is Shubman Gill out?

At the time of the toss, Rashid Khan told that Shubman Gill has a muscle strain, due to which he is not playing the match. Rashid expressed hope that Gill would recover soon and return. In place of Gill, Kumar Kushagra has got a chance in the playing eleven of Gujarat Titans. Kushagra is a wicketkeeper batsman from Jharkhand.

In this match, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and chose to bat first. At the time of the toss, Gujarat captain Rashid Khan said that the last match was close, but this time they need to improve in batting as well as bowling. Talking about Shubhman Gill, he scored 39 runs in 27 balls in the match against Punjab Kings.

Playing XI of Gujarat Titans

Kumar Kushagra, Sai Sudarshan, Jos Buttler (wk), Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan (c), Kagiso Rabada, Ashok Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna.

Gujarat has lost the first match

The first match of Gujarat Titans was with Punjab Kings, in which the entire Gujarat team could score only 162 runs. Due to poor strike rate in batting, Gujarat could not reach a big score. In reply, Punjab Kings won the match with 3 wickets remaining. Krishna, famous for Gujarat, took 3 wickets while bowling brilliantly. Prasidh was the winner of the Purple Cap last season.

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