Gujarat Titans couldn’t have asked for a better start to their Indian Premier League journey than this. In their very first season, the Hardik Pandya-led outfit stunned some heavyweight teams in the league stage, topped the table, became the first of the 10 teams to qualify for the playoffs and then smashed their way into the final.
After the two-day mega auction, the tags were already out. The weakest team of IPL-15 with no star power, they were called. However, Gujarat Titans have surprised everyone by taking the tournament by storm. 

“To be honest, I wouldn’t say anything to them [critics]. They are entitled to their opinion,” Vikram Solanki, the franchise’s director of cricket told mid-day ahead of their all-important summit clash here at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday.