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Star Sports Press Room: When R Sai Kishore took a match-winning 4-42 for Gujarat Titans’ (GT) in their win over Punjab Kings (PBKS) in IPL 2024, one finally felt that this was the moment when he would be a regular figure in the side. But a neck injury picked up while playing golf meant his IPL 2024 stint with GT ended prematurely.

After the mega auctions were done in Jeddah last year, GT assistant coach Parthiv Patel had said in a virtual interaction with IANS that they were eyeing Sai Kishore, who was brought back by the franchise via the Right to Match (RTM) card, as their lead spinner. That logic made sense – Noor Ahmad was gone to Chennai Super Kings and an opening had been created for someone to pair up with Rashid Khan.

When IPL 2025 began, Sai Kishore was in the playing eleven from get go, thus marking the start of a golden run for the left-arm spinner – who now has 14 wickets against his name from 11 games at an average of 17.64 and economy rate of 8.37.