5 things that helped Ben Stokes vs Gujarat Lions

#5 Picking his bowlers

Dan Christian and Stokes finished it off for RPS with brutal hitting in the death overs

The most important part of a run chase is to know your scoring options, when to attack and defend, when to force the ball into the gaps and when to take the added risk. Only then you may come out as a winner, and Stokes did all of those perfectly. He scored at a strike rate of 250 against Jadeja, clearing the mid-wicket boundaries and going with the spin.

He saw off Soni, and whenever the required run rate crept, he targeted Dwayne Smith and Basil Thampi to keep the opposition in check.

RPS were again in a spot of bother when Dhoni fell, and the equation was 44 off 23. The required run rate soared again and finally, in the penultimate over, requiring 25 to win, he targeted Thampi and got 17 off his over. In total, he scored 29 off the 15 balls that Thampi had bowled to him and the calculated risk did come off.

The final over was a cake walk as Dan Christian finished it with a six with a ball to spare and RPS won the close match.