GT vs RR Cricket Score, IPL 2026 Qualifier 2 Highlights: Shubman Gill slams century as Gujarat defeat Rajasthan by 7 wickets to punch tickets to IPL final

Into the 19th and GT need 10 from the last 2 overs. Tewatia on strike and he slams a four to start proceedings. 6 needed now. And that's followed by 4 more. 2 needed now. And Tewatia finishes things off with a boundary!! GT win by 7 wickets

Archer in to bowl the 17th and after a couple of deliveries, Washington gets 4 more. WOW!!! Goes one better as he drives the next one over the rope for a SIX!! 200 up for GT. 12 from this one.

GT 201/2 after 17 overs

Archer back in the attack and yields just 2 singles from the first couple of deliveries. Gujarat won't mind this as long as they don't lose a wicket. AAAND A WICKET NOW!!! Gill misses for the first time tonight and he has been snared. LBW

Shubman Gill lbw b Jofra Archer 104(53)

Brijesh again and Sudharsan through the covers for 4 to start. Takes a single to put Gill on strike. The GT captain slaps the third ball to the boundary for four more!! This is the highest ever partnership in any playoff. RR are getting absolutely blown away here. AAAND THAT'S A FOUR AND SUDHARSAN IS HIT WICKET AGAIN!!! That's twice in two matches!! After the four, his bat slips out of his hands agin and knocks the bails off.

Sai Sudharsan hit wkt b Brijesh Sharma 58(32)

Punja continues and Sudharsan cuts him for a SIX!! This brings up his own half century!! Gill on strike and he smashes back to back fours to the extra cover boundary!! 17 from this over.

GT 144/0 after 11 overs

Deshpande in again and Sudharsan goes off strike with a single. Bowls the next one short and Gill has pulled it over the ropes for SIX!! The bouncer dealt with disdain. A single next and Sudharsan is back on strike. And a cut for a single to bring up 100 for GT. Gill on strike now and he brings up his fifty with a four!! And the over ends with another 4!!

GT 108/0 after 9 overs

Brijesh continues and Gill starts this one off with a cover drive for a four!! Absolute class. A couple of singles next before Sharma has to bowl an extra ball due to erring in line. A wide again. 10 off this over.

GT 79/0 after 7 overs

Brijesh Sharma in the attack now and starts off with a single off the first two deliveries. Gill on strike and he gets one over extra cover for four!! Still a decent over for RR. Just 7 from this.

GT 59/0 after 5 overs

Archer continues and keeps the line in this over, yielding a single from the first couple of deliveries. Tries a yorker next and Sudharsan just keeps it out. The England international bangs the next one short and Gill pulls for 4!! The next one is smashed back past the bowler for 4 more!!

GT 41/0 after 3 overs

We are back for the chase. Sudharsan will face Jofra Archer and he starts with a cut for a four!! A single next and Gill pulls away for four more!! GT off to a pretty good start. Archer drifts into the pads next and Gill picks it up for 4 more!! Remember that the last time he met RR, he had slammed 84. GT will need an innings like that from their skipper again. On the other end, Sudharsan ends the over with a placed four!!

GT 19/0 after 1 over

Onto the 19th over and Prasidh will bowl. Can Rajasthan get to 200? Just a single from the first couple of deliveries. Ferreira finds a gap next and cuts for four!! A couple of singles follow. GT won't mind this at all. Ferreira ends the over with a pull which just reaches the boundary!!

RR 187/9 after 19 overs

Washington Sundar back in the attack and Sooryavanshi has slapped the ball past the bowler for a flat SIX!! This is unreal hitting. That hit to the helmet in the 14th over looks to have charged him up as he's broken all the shackles after it. The last ball is slog swept over the ropes for a SIX!!

RR 171/5 after 17 overs

Siraj will bowl his final over and he bangs the first one in short as Sooryavanshi swivels and gets it over fine leg for a SIX!! There's an overthrow now which enables the youngster to get back on strike. He takes another single and Jadeja sees off this over with two dots. Siraj finishes his spell with 4-0-42-1.

RR 138/5 after 15 overs

Prasidh in the attack again and he'll be hoping that his fortune changes a bit after expensive couple of overs. Sooryavanshi pulls again, doesn't get a clean hit and it falls just short of the fielder. He is constantly trying the clear the bigger side of the ground and failing. Archer, meanwhile, goes to the shorter side with a SIX!! Swings his bat now and nicks behind to Buttler!!! Meanwhile, Sooryavanshi has brought up his half century, his slowest.

Jofra Archer c Jos Buttler b Prasidh Krishna 7(4)

Prasidh back in the attack and Sooryavanshi with a cut for four to start. Too full by Prasidh and is punished!! The next one is pulled and that's miles up in the air!! Sudharsan was late off the mark and he can't get to what would have been an easy catch. He probably thought that the ball would carry to him. Will this come back to haunt GT?

RR 109/3 after 11 overs

There's another noteworthy moment in the match now as Jadeja is walking off. He's being tretired hurt and Parag is the new man in. He'll face Rashid Khan and the first couple of balls is smashed for a four and a SIX!! Takes a single and Sooryavanshi is on strike. Rashid had dismissed him in the league stage but he gets clobbered by the youngster for a SIX to start!! What a swivel pull.

RR 100/2 after 9 overs

Spin is in now as Washington Sundar has been given the new ball and Sooryavanshi takes a single to start. That is followed by a single by Jadeja. The next couple of deliveries also yield singles. Tidy over. Just 6 singles.

RR 76/2 after 7 overs

Siraj will bowl the 5th over and Jadeja welcomes him with a cut for four!! Tries another cut and misses the next ball. There's a problem with Siraj now as he has pulled up and is holding his right shoulder. Not the sight anyone wants to see. He is good to go though and Jadeja with a single to bring up RR's 50. Siraj still looks to be in a bit of pain though but he'll finish his remaining over. A review now RR for a wide not given but the onfield decision stays as they lose a review. The over ends with a cut for a 4 by the 15-year-old prodigy.

RR 54/2 after 5 overs

Siraj continues and he employs the short pitched delivery as Sooryavanshi swings and misses. Slaps the second ball and it's just over the in-field for a FOUR!! Great battle going on between the batter and the bowler. Swings at the next ball and gets 2. Prasidh sweeps up. Sooryavanshi pulls again, does not get the necessary timing but it lands safely for 2 more. Ohhh dear!! The next one has too much bounce as Siraj's delivery is over everyone for 5 wides. Tries another short ball and Sooryavanshi pulls one to fine leg for another 4!! And ends the over with 4 more!!

RR 34/2 after 3 overs

The bit of controversy at the toss will have to be put at the back of the mind now as we are ready for live action. Siraj with the new ball in hand and Jaiswal on strike. He swings and a good bit of fielding just keeps the first ball down to a single. He'll be bowling to the prodigy now and after cramping him for room, gives away a single. AAAND HE STRIKES!!! Jiaswal pulls and has picked out the man perfectly in the deep!!

Yashasvi Jaiswal c Prasidh Krishna b Mohammed Siraj 1(2)

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Donovan Ferreira, Dasun Shanaka, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Brijesh Sharma, Yash Raj Punja

Shubman Gill: We would have batted first as well. Forty overs of cricket already on this wicket and it won't behave differently. We have everything to play for, it's a now or never situation. One change: Sai Kishore is back.

Riyan Parag: We will bat first. Pretty much the same wicket, but I think it slows down at the backend, and we have the bowlers for it. We just need to play better cricket for 40 overs, the best team will win. The support staff have been incredible about recoveries and injuries. Same team.

Gujarat Titans all-rounder Glenn Phillips was entrusted with facing the media after his team’s harrowing defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru, despite not featuring in the high-stakes contest at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on Tuesday night. The Kiwi star had to confront a variety of questions, of which a particular query left him fuming.

When quizzed if ’s Playoffs record score of 254 for five had already left the Gujarat players resigned back in the dressing room during the mid-innings break, Phillips gave a sharp retort to the reporter, striking down the question as “silly and terrible”.

Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and put Rajasthan Royals in to bat in the Eliminator at Chandigarh. By the time Sakib Hussain ran in for the fifth delivery of the fourth over, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi had already hit six sixes. He stood still in the crease and waited. Hussain had been predictable – a quick delivery followed by a slower one, then another quick one. Off the fifth, he tried to bluff Sooryavanshi with another slower ball, the kind that even the best batsmen have struggled to pick from his hand thanks to his quick arm speed. Sooryavanshi had already been deceived once in three deliveries. He was not going to be fooled again. As the ball angled away, he stood, waited, and sent it over long-off. (READ MORE)

A fastest-ever IPL century was there for the taking for . Having skyrocketed to 97 off 28 deliveries, Chris Gayle’s 30-ball century made against Pune Warriors India in 2013 looked under threat. But off the 29th delivery he faced, for the first time on Wednesday night, the 15-year-old Sooryavanshi mis-timed one short delivery to the thirdman.

The intention to go for another aerial shot so close to the three-figure landmark was very much in Sooryavanshi’s element. Having hit 12 sixes on the night, the left-hander backed himself, but eventually found the fielder.

The surface has provided consistent bounce and good carry this season, which has made it easier for batsmen to get their big hits going early on. On the other hand, though, none of this will matter if Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Jofra Archer get going with their repsective crafts, as was seen in the Eliminator. SRH had done well to bring RR’s scoring rate down drastically towards the end of the innings and even then, they never really looked capable of challenging RR with the bat largely thanks to Archer’s devastating early spell. Similarly, RR posted 243 despite scoring just 36 runs in the last five overs due to Sooryavanshi’s record knock.

The redeemed exudes a narrow-eyed suspicion in everything that he does this IPL. The celebrations post-wickets are non-celebratory. He breaks into a brisk stroll rather than a full-pelt sprint from his follow-through, sometimes contorting his index finger and thumb into the alphabet C, a reminder of his chillingly famous duel with Steve Smith in 2019 Ashes, where he concussed him with a fiendish bouncer.

He smiles apologetically; grins are exercised with restraint. He talks measuredly, churning out double-checked platitudes. “How do you feel tonight?” The presenter asked him after the eliminator against ?” He replies: “I thought I bowled pretty alright.” (READ MORE)

Gujarat Titans will face an uphill task to recover from their Qualifier 1 defeat to Royal Challengers Bengaluru and rally for a comeback shot at the IPL 2026 title. However, former India spinner R Ashwin believes Shubman Gill’s men are the firm favourites to upstage Rajasthan Royals in the Qualifier 2 match on Friday and redeem themselves against RCB in the final on Sunday.

Despite conceding a whopping 254-run total to and succumbing to a 92-run defeat, Ashwin remarked that the Titans will certainly take down Rajasthan before utilising the home advantage in the final at the Narendra Modi Stadium.

“ will 100% beat all the way. I can give it in writing. And if GT qualify for the final, they are winning the trophy for sure. They’ve the Ahmedabad track measured to an inch. GT will win their second title. RCB’s only hope is to catch a flight and stop GT in Mullanpur itself because they’ve no chance in Ahmedabad,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel.

In the coming days, India’s selectors will sit down to chalk a new path for the T20 team. The main discussion point would be Suryakumar Yadav’s form, with the likes of Rajat Patidar and Shreyas Iyer breathing down his neck after a good run in the IPL.

The opening duo will be another point of discussion, with multiple options emerging and making it tough to select the best player from the lot.

That discussion will also have a key question to answer: Where does , India’s Test and ODI captain and maker of over 600 runs in 2026, stand? Having become the T20 vice-captain in August 2025, his place in the side seemed settled. Yet, inconsistent form forced the selectors to drop the axe on him for the T20 World Cup, when the squad came out in December 2025.

It was a bold and correct decision at the time. But in IPL 2026, Gill has looked a different batsman. Not many expected () to make it to the Playoffs, but by being prolific with the bat, he has led from the front. (READ MORE)

Sunrisers Hyderabad employed a few tricks but failed miserably. By the time Pat Cummins and Co. could get through the first half of the innings, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi had nearly stubbed the contest, powering Rajasthan Royals single-handedly through towards the Qualifier 2 spot.

On Friday, the will be bracing for a similar whirlwind when they take the field against in the Qualifier 2 in a second shot at a final spot. ’s bowling attack is already smarting from the massive 254-run hammering they copped from in the first Playoffs match in Dharamsala. And the Sooryavanshi hurricane wouldn’t be an entirely new experience for the Gujarat outfit. (READ MORE)

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According to the BBC weather forecast, light rain showers are expected consistently throughout the evening at the venue. Rainfall chances are expected to spike up to 40 percent around 9:30 PM IST and hold steady for the next three hours, raising the possibility of a rain-marred contest to decide the finalist.

doesn’t possess a pronounced front-foot game. Batting coach Zubin Bharucha, who works with a number of elite Indian batters, dismisses the percentages altogether. “Zero. He actually doesn’t have any front foot game,” Bharucha says. It is an apparent weakness. The inability to consistently drive the ball along the ground to deep cover or long-on may be a glaring flaw on any batter’s profile. Not for Sooryavanshi. His record-breaking, six-hitting avatar rests on that very contradiction. (READ MORE)

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

Rajasthan Royals Squad: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Donovan Ferreira, Dasun Shanaka, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Sushant Mishra, Brijesh Sharma, Yash Raj Punja, Shubham Dubey, Aman Rao Perala, , Tushar Deshpande, Adam Milne, , Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Kwena Maphaka, , Kuldeep Sen, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Emanjot Singh Chahal, Vignesh Puthur.