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'Aaj Hardik karke aaya' - Memes rain on Twitter as Gujarat Titans register their 7th win of IPL 2023 against RR

Gujarat Titans defeated Rajasthan Royals by 9 wickets in IPL 2023 and fans surfaced a lot funny memes on the internet.

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GT defeated RR (Source - Twitter)

GT defeated RR (Source - Twitter)

The defending champions Gujarat Titans (GT) were unable to chase 130 runs against Delhi Capitals (DC) in their previous match. Fortunately, they have learned from the previous loss and defeated Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 9 wickets at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur in the 48th match of the Indian Premier League 2023 on Friday, May 5.

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Earlier, RR skipper Sanju Samson opted to bat first after winning the toss, however, Jos Buttler once again failed to provide a good start and after his early departure of him, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Samson seemed to be building a decent partnership, but the run-out of the former opened doors for a horrible collapse.

And then it was the Afghan duo of Rashid Khan and Noor Ahmed, who did the remaining damage on RR’s middle order as they were sending RR batters back to the pavilion in no time. Rashid was brilliant with the ball as he picked up 3 wickets and conceded only 14 runs in his 4 overs quota. On the other hand, Ahmed picked 2 wickets in 3 overs and both helped the team to restrict RR to just 118 runs.

A poor all-round performance by RR

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In response, fans were expecting RR bowlers to get some early breakthroughs, but that didn’t happen as openers Shubman Gill and Wriddhiman Saha stitched a 71-run stand for the first wicket and made the chase easy for the upcoming batters. However, Gill was stumped out by Yuzvendra Chahal in the 10 over on 36 runs but unfortunately, that was the only wicket RR could take.

Later, skipper Hardik Pandya took the matter on his own shoulder and wasted a little time to achieve the target. He smashed Adam Zampa for 3 sixes and 1 four in a single over. On the other hand, Saha kept the other end safe and both achieved the target with 37 balls to spare. With this win, GT has now almost secured their place in the playoffs as they have 14 points in 10 matches.

Here are some of the funny memes:

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