Lynnsanity hits Rajkot

Apr 07, 2017

All of Gujarat Lions' overseas players were opening batsmen and Jason Roy, on IPL debut, walked out to bat alongside Brendon McCullum•BCCI

Lions batsmen negated Sunil Narine's spell; The West Indian finished with no wickets•BCCI

Dinesh Karthik kept the runs flowing with a 27-ball 45 as Lions finished with a total of 183•BCCI

Gambhir made an unbeaten 76 off 48 balls with 12 fours•BCCI

Roy struck three fours before falling to Piyush Chawla's legspin•BCCI

Suresh Raina made 68 off 51 balls, his second-highest IPL score without a six •BCCI

Chris Lynn, promoted to open, hit his maiden IPL fifty in just 19 balls•BCCI

Lynn hammered 93 not out in 41 balls, with eight sixes and six fours•BCCI

Kolkata Knight Riders were acrobatic in the field •BCCI

The Lions fielders were sent on a leather hunt as Lynn and Gautam Gambhir smashed 73 runs in the Powerplay•BCCI

And together they took the world record for the largest target gunned down in a T20 without losing a single wicket •BCCI