GT Vs RCB Highlights, IPL 2026: Disciplined Titans Ease To Four-Wicket Win In Ahmedabad

Greetings and welcome, everyone! We are building up to the start of the Indian Premier League encounter between Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Ahmedabad. Watch this space for pre-match info, toss, playing XIs and live updates.

Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (c), Jos Buttler, Kumar Kushagra, Glenn Phillips, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Gurnoor Brar, Arshad Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Kagiso Rabada, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Sharma, Jason Holder, Tom Banton, Luke Wood, Sai Sudharsan, M Shahrukh Khan, Anuj Rawat, Kulwant Khejroliya, Rahul Tewatia.

RCB: Rajat Patidar (c), Tim David, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Philip Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Jacob Bethell, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Abhinandan Singh, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Salam Dar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Nuwan Thushara, Venkatesh Iyer, Jacob Duffy, Mangesh Yadav, Jordan Cox, Vicky Ostwal, Vihaan Malhotra, Kanishk Chouhan, Satvik Deswal.

The first ball will be bowled at 7:30pm IST, with the toss scheduled for 7pm. The GT vs RCB, IPL 2026 match will be telecast on the Star Sports Network TV channels in India and live streamed on the JioHotstar app and website in the country.

Ahmedabad is set for a hot and dry evening, with clear, sunny skies expected around match time. Temperatures will hover in the high 30s even at 7:00 pm after touching a peak of 41°C earlier in the day, with humidity around 43%.

There is no chance of rain, and light winds at around 19 km/h should offer minimal relief, ensuring uninterrupted play in testing conditions for players.

The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad has produced a balanced surface this season, offering assistance to both batters and bowlers. In the three matches played here so far, defending sides have enjoyed some success, indicating that the pitch can slow down as the game progresses.

While runs are expected to come early, a total in the 220–230 range should be highly competitive and could well be enough to win based on recent results at the venue.

Gujarat Titans skipper Shubman Gill has won the toss and elected to bowl first. "The surface gives swing in the first 4-5 overs. Want to chase in case there is dew," he tells Ravi Shastri, adding that they are going with an unchanged XI. Rajat Patidar says he would have bowled first as well, and is also going with the same team as their previous match against Delhi Capitals.

Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Jason Holder, Shahrukh Khan, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Manav Suthar

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Jacob Bethell, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood

RCB Impact subs: Rasikh Salam Dar, Jordan Cox, Mangesh Yadav, Vicky Ostwal, Venkatesh Iyer

GT Impact subs: Rahul Tewatia, Glenn Phillips, Anuj Rawat, Nishant Sindhu, Kulwant Khejroliya

The lion-hearted Mohammed Siraj is ready with the brand new white ball in hand for the Titans, and Jacob Bethell takes strike against him with Virat Kohli at the other end. The India seamer starts with a beauty, beating Bethell's outside edge. He then foxes Kohli too in the corridor outside off stump. A top first over is spoiled a bit by a wide sixth ball which Bethell carves through point.

RCB: 6/0 (1)

Scintillating from Kohli! The crowd in Ahmedabad has already got its money's worth with the RCB veteran dispatching a fast bowler of Kagiso Rabada's class to five consecutive boundaries. Four of the five fours are drives through the off side, as Kohli delights the purists and T20 fans in equal measure. Exquisite.

RCB: 27/0 (2)

What a contest this turned out to be. It was almost as if their Test duel was transposed into the T20 arena as Kohli threw a series of jabs at Rabada, before the South African delivered a decisive punch. The pacer returns for a second over and bangs one in short. Kohli, charging down, gets into an ungainly position and can only chip it off the splice of his bat to a tumbling Rashid Khan at midwicket. With Siraj snaring Bethell earlier, both RCB openers are gone!

RCB: 53/2 (5)

Massive moment in the game. Patidar miscues a short ball into the leg side and Rabada, Jason Holder go chasing it from short fine and deep square leg respectively. Holder manages to ignore the vision of a charging Rabada as he dives to pull off a stunner.

The RCB captain has to go, but hang on, his teammates aren't convinced. Kohli has an animated chat with the fourth umpire, trying to suggest that the ball touched the ground. The on-field umpires decide otherwise and the wicket stands.

RCB: 89/4 (9)

The wickets continue to tumble for RCB, as Holder accounts for Jitesh Sharma and completes a smart catch off Rashid to send back Tim David. The onus is squarely on Padikkal now to take Bengaluru to a respectable total.

RCB: 113/6 (13)

Rashid foxes Padikkal, getting the southpaw to inside edge one onto his stumps. Romario Shepherd then holes out to Sai Sudharsan in the deep and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, impact sub Venkatesh Iyer are left to try and take Bengaluru to a respectable total.

RCB: 136/8 (17)

And that's that! The move to bring in Venkatesh Iyer as impact sub backfires as he's dismissed for a 15-ball 12, and Josh Hazlewood is run out off the next ball. RCB fail to bat their 20-over quota, bundled out for 155 runs in 19.2 overs. It's the first time this season that Bengaluru have been bowled out, and the Titans are in an excellent position to notch up a crucial win.

RCB: 155 all out (19.2)

Shubman Gill is out with a plan. The Titans captain has decided to go all out against RCB's veteran seamers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood to force them on the backfoot. As it is, the target is just a 156-run one and the 'Prince' is imposing himself spectacularly in Ahmedabad, racing away to an unbeaten 35 off just 10!

GT: 36/0 (2)

Virat Kohli has been desperate to get in the game and egg his team up. After a few closed calls and missed chances, he finally does it by holding on to a sharp chance. Shubman Gill hits a Bhuvneshwar Kumar delivery hard to short cover but Kohli is not dropping it, and hurls the ball into the ground to let out his frustration/joy. Bengaluru are back in the contest!

GT: 69/2 (6)

Jos Buttler looked like taking the game away from RCB, but Bhuvneshwar Kumar's redoubtable craft comes to the visitors' rescue. Buttler was repeatedly shuffling across the stumps and Bhuvi bowls one full and straight into the leg stump. The Englishman is beaten for pace and the yorker disturbs the furniture. GT lose their invaluable top three, and it's now up to the middle order to take them over the line.

GT: 102/3 (9)

It's all happening at the Narendra Modi Stadium. Romario Shepherd dislodges Shahrukh Khan as well as Washington Sundar, but impact sub Rahul Tewatia and Jason Holder enter all guns blazing. The required run rate is now below three an over, and it will take a miracle of sorts for RCB to win this.

RCB: 132/5 (12)

With GT on the verge of victory, Suyash Sharma has Jason Holder caught by Devdutt Padikkal at deep midwicket. Rashid Khan joins Tewatia and just 11 more runs are needed got GT from five whole overs, with four wickets in hand.

GT: 145/6 (15)

Rashid Khan finishes off the game in style. He dances down the track and lifts Suyash Sharma's delivery over extra cover for a boundary. Titans chase down the 156-run target in under 16 overs to notch up back-to-back wins and stay fifth in the standings. As for RCB, this is their third loss of the season and they remain second with 12 points.

GT 158/6 (15.5) beat RCB 155 all out by four wickets

Here's what Rajat Patidar had to say at the post-match presentation on his team's performance:

"I think the score was not good enough, but the way we bowled and stretched it to 15-16 overs, that's a positive sign for us.

"(Did the pitch have something for the bowlers?) Definitely, there's a good cover of the grass on the surface that helped fast bowlers. And as I said, I think the way Shubman played, I think he played beautifully in the power play. And he put the pressure on us, but the way we came back and stretched till 16th over, I think that's a positive.

"(What were the learnings from this experience?) I think it's pretty clear. We gave a lot of wickets in the middle and that kept us on the back seat."