IPL 2025: Sai Kishore shines with three-fer against PBKS
What's the story
Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore was the pick of Gujarat Titans's bowlers in their IPL 2025 opener against Punjab Kings at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad.
Sai Kishore had impressive figures worth 3/30 as the Kings posted a mammoth 243/5, their highest first-innings total in IPL history.
The spinner was GT's only bowler with a sub-10 economy rate.
Here are the key stats.
Bowling
Sai Kishore impresses in high-scoring thriller
Sai Kishore bowled a phenomenal spell when the Kings were cruising. He dismissed Azmatullah Omarzai and Glenn Maxwell on consecutive deliveries to pull some momentum back.
Sai Kishore then stopped the dangerous Marcus Stoinis from going berserk.
The GT spinner finished with an economy rate of 7.50. All other GT bowlers conceded over 10 runs an over.
Career
Sai Kishore races past 15 wickets
Sai Kishore started his IPL journey with GT in 2022. He took six wickets in their title-winning campaign.
Last year, he became is the first Indian spinner to take a four-wicket haul for GT in the IPL.
Sai Kishore has now raced to 16 wickets from just 11 IPL games at an average of 18.00.