Even though LSG did a good job with the ball and restricted GT to 144 for 4, the KL Rahul-led side were flopped with the bat as they were bowled out for 82 in 13.5 overs.
Rashid Khan (4/24) acted with the ball for GT, while Yash Dayal (2/24) and R Sai Kishore (2/7) took two wickets each.
Earlier, opener Shubman Gill hit a fine half-century but LSG put in a disciplined bowling effort to restrict GT to a modest score.
Gill remained unbeaten on 63 off 49 balls with the help of seven fours but did not get support from the other end. He was stranded as GT’s next highest scorer was David Miller (26).
Avesh Khan (2/26) took two wickets for LSG, while Mohsin Khan (1/18) and Jason Holder (1/44) took one wicket each.
GT sealed their play-off berth, reaching 18 points from 12 games. The defeat broke LSG’s five-match winning streak, but they are still comfortably second on 16 points and need just one win to book their last-four berths.
LSG made a slow start to their chase and their problems were compounded by losses to Quinton de Kock (11) and captain KL Rahul (8) in successive overs and were reduced to 24 for 2 after four overs. Went.
Where Yash Dayal was responsible for de Kock, Rahul made a short delivery from Mohammed Shami to Wriddhiman Saha behind the stumps.
Debutant Karan Sharma also did not help his cause, taking a catch to David Miller inside the circle to give Dayal his second wicket of the day.
The attack was launched in the eighth over, with Rashid Khan off his third ball, Kunal Pandya with a googly and Saha whipping the bails.
With wickets falling rapidly from the start, LSG found no momentum to chase down their target, reaching 58 for 4 at the half-leg.
The ever-increasing asking rate led to the downfall of Aayush Badoni (8) who was stumped by Saha off R Sai Kishore.
The likes of Marcus Stoinis (2) and Jason Holder (1) cut LSG’s scorecard a regrettable figure.
Deepak Hooda scored 27 runs in 26 balls for LSG.
Earlier, GT’s decision to bat after winning the toss had a major backlash as they cheaply lost Wriddhiman Saha (5) and Matthew Wade (10) and the scoreboard was just 24 in five overs.
With wickets falling from the other end, Gill went about his business cautiously and put on a 27-run partnership for the third wicket in the company of captain Hardik Pandya, before leaving the latter, one run behind the stumps to Quinton de Kock. He gave his second wicket to Avesh. day.
Once Hardik was gone, Gill took the responsibility on himself and went ahead, first cutting Avesh to the square boundary and then turning Krunal Pandya upside down at the third-man fence in the next over.
But after that, both Gill and Miller failed to open their arms as Mohsin and Krunal bowled tight lines and lengths to stop the run flow.
Miller eventually hit a huge six off Jason Holder at extra cover in the third ball of the 16th over, which was the first maximum of the innings.
Miller, however, was caught off the last ball of the over by Aayush Badoni as he hit a straight deep third man for a boundary.
Gill, on the other hand, ran his innings smoothly and completed his fifty in 42 balls off Dushmantha Chamira.
Once he reached his half-century, Gill opened up and hammered Chameera for four consecutive boundaries, taking 14 runs from the 17th over.
Rahul Tewatia (22 not out off 16 balls) used a long handle in the final over to hit Holder for three fours to take the score close to 150 runs.
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