Mohit Sharma on Saturday pulled off an outstanding catch throughout his group Gujarat Titans’ IPL 2023 match towards Kolkata Knight Riders on the Eden Gardens. The recreation began with GT skipper Hardik Pandya profitable the toss and opting to bowl first. KKR misplaced their opener Narayan Jagadeesan within the third over and Shardul Thakur was promoted up the order at quantity 3. The transfer from KKR couldn’t revenue the facet as a surprising catch from Mohit ended the knock of Shardul.

The second of brilliance got here on the final ball of the fifth over of the KKR inning that was bowled by Mohammed Shami. The pacer bowled a tough size supply to Shardul, who tried to hit the ball over the mid-on fielder Mohit.

As it turned out, Shardul did not time the ball correctly and it went excessive within the air. Mohit lined good floor by operating behind and the made an outstanding judgement to take the catch.

Watch it right here:

Mohit Sharma you magnificence

A exceptional catch operating backwards to dismiss Shardul Thakur #TATAIPL | #KKRvGT pic.twitter.com/QOOS30qusH

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After opting to bowl within the recreation, Hardik had termed the climate as the rationale for making the choice.

“We will bowl first. Just because of the weather, it was bright when we came and we thought we should bat, but it has changed now. I’m pretty happy with where we are, 7 games gone, 7 more to come, we need to play good cricket and qualify for the playoffs. We will learn from the losses as well, but we just need to play some consistent cricket. We are playing the same team,” stated the GT skipper.

Meanwhile, Nitish Rana stated: “We would have batted first, DLS could come into the equation, but we would still have batted first. There are always areas where we can improve, we have had some forced changes – Jason Roy has a again difficulty, he is changed by (Rahmanullah) Gurbaz. Harshit Rana replaces Umesh Yadav.”