India, May 30 -- Gujarat Titans' win over Rajasthan Royals on Friday to enter the IPL final also was an occasion when power-hitting ended second best to shots that were more about sweet timing.

As GT skipper Shubman Gill stamped his class with his 104 off 53 balls, it wasn't the brutality which defines modern T20 batting but the subtle art of finding the gaps and crisp shots that found the gap and left fielders chasing a ball in vain that stood out.

On a night when Vaibhav Sooryavanshi again showcased the future of T20 batting with awesome power-hitting, Gill served a reminder that timing remains the game's enduring aspect.

"I was in a kind of a zone where I was only looking at the gaps, looking at the bowlers and looking at where I wa...