Captain of Gujarat Titans Shabman Gul admitted that he could introduce Prasad Krishna With the ball first, Punjab Kings chased down the target to win by three wickets in their first IPL match on Tuesday.“I could have got Parsed earlier, but we were in the game till the end, there were always going to be ifs and buts. But he came at the right time, got wickets and kept us in the game till the 17th and 18th overs,” Gayle said after the match.Punjab Kings were led by Cooper Connolly, who scored 72 off 44 balls on debut, helping his side chase down 163 with five balls to spare. Prabhasmaran Singh scored 37 runs off 24 balls and the duo added 76 runs for the second wicket.Earlier, Yuzvendra Chahal took 2/28 in four overs to control the middle stages, while Vijay Kumar Veshak took 3/34 as the Gujarat Titans were kept at 162/6.Gayle scored 39 off 27 balls and Jos Buttler scored 38 off 33 balls for Gujarat Titans.Punjab Kings got an early jolt when Kagiso Rabada dismissed Priyansh Arya, caught at midwicket by debutant Ashok Sharma.Connolly and Prabhasmaran then got the innings on track. Rashid Khan later dismissed Prabhasmaran, who was caught at long-on.Shreyas Iyer hit two sixes off Ashok Kumar but was out soon after, off Washington Sundar off Prasad Krishna at deep midwicket.Sundar also dismissed Nihal Vadhira while Krishna took the wickets of Shashank Singh. Marcus Stoins A quick win to bring Gujarat Titans back into the match.Krishna was brought into the attack in the 13th over when Punjab needed 53 off 48 balls, and he dismissed Iyer on his first delivery.Despite the wickets, Connolly hung on till the end, hitting five sixes and five fours to send the Punjab Kings home.“I think we bowled very well, we just couldn’t get going in the last five or six overs (with the bat), it wasn’t a 200 wicket, but if we had 175 it would have been different, but we kept losing wickets and we couldn’t get going in the last five overs,” Gill added.
