Home ground to defending champions Gujarat Titans, Narendra Modi Stadium has hosted seven league matches in the ongoing 16th season of the Indian Premier League. While this state-of-the-art facility hadn’t hosted a league match during IPL 2022, it will be replicating the last season as far as hosting Qualifier 2 and Final are concerned.
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The last two matches of the season will be played within the next 50 hours or so. Speaking of the penultimate match of the season, it will be played between Titans and Mumbai Indians. Readers must note that it will be for the second time when Ahmedabad will be hosting an IPL playoff match.
Narendra Modi Stadium IPL Records 2023 (Updated)
Highest run-scorers at this venue this season are Shubman Gill (533), Sai Sudharsan (185), Hardik Pandya (169), Wriddhiman Saha (149) and David Miller (122). All these players belonging to the home team aren’t surprising by any means. Gill, in particular, has scored two centuries and three half-centuries in the last two months here.
Speaking of players who could play the final match of the tournament, the likes of Vijay Shankar (115), Abhinav Manohar (109) and Ruturaj Gaikwad (92) have scored 90 or more runs in the first round.
Highest IPL 2023 wicket-takers in Ahmedabad are Mohammed Shami (17), Mohit Sharma (17), Rashid Khan (13), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (5) and Noor Ahmad (5). With the exception of Kumar, all other bowler represent GT at the moment.
Among Chennai Super Kings‘ bowlers, Rajvardhan Hangargekar (3), Ravindra Jadeja (1) and Tushar Deshpande (1) have dismissed at least one batter at this stadium.
Highest Successful Run Chases in Ahmedabad During IPL 2023 (Updated)
Score | Overs | Team | Opposition |
233/3 | 20 | Gujarat Titans | Mumbai Indians |
227/2 | 20 | Gujarat Titans | Lucknow Super Giants |
207/7 | 20 | Kolkata Knight Riders | Gujarat Titans |
207/6 | 20 | Gujarat Titans | Mumbai Indians |
204/4 | 20 | Gujarat Titans | Kolkata Knight Riders |
The 200-run mark has been touched five times out of 16 IPL 2023 innings at the Narendra Modi Stadium. Talking about the highest successful run-chase, the aforementioned third-highest innings totals had come in a successful chase. The match is fondly remembered for Kolkata Knight Riders batter Rinku Singh hitting as many as five sixes in a Yash Dayal over to register never-seen-before finish to an IPL match.