GT vs SRH, IPL 2026: Rabada, Holder rip Sunrisers Hyderabad apart as Gujarat Titans go top of the table

Gujarat Titans’ irrepressible new-ball attack outclassed Sunrisers Hyderabad’s marauding top-order in a much-anticipated clash as GT stormed to a convincing 82-run win in an IPL 2026 match at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.

Titans pacers Kagiso Rabada and Mohammed Siraj ripped through SRH’s batting spine, reducing the away side to 32 for four in the PowerPlay in its ill-fated 169-run chase on a sluggish black-soil surface.

Prasidh Krishna and Jason Holder continued the chokehold into the middle overs to set up Titans’ sixth consecutive win against SRH, a result which also lifted the side to the top of the IPL 2026 standings.

Playing an equally important role as the home quicks were B Sai Sudharsan and Washington Sundar, who scored battling fifties to construct Titans’ winning total.

Sai Sudharsan and Washington put on 60 runs for the fourth wicket to wrest control of the game after SRH’s pacers dominated the early phase of play.

After opting to bowl, SRH skipper Pat Cummins showed the way for his fellow quicks with some pinpoint hard-length bowling. Titans eked out just 34 runs in the PowerPlay, losing skipper Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler in the process.

With his top-order partners falling early, Sai Sudharsan retreated into a shell. It was only after the arrival of Washington, following a Nishant Sindhu cameo, that he truly opened up.

The Titans opener had earlier kick-started things with a polished cover drive against Nitish Kumar in the second over. His first six came only in the 11th over – a full-blooded slash over backward point against Eshan Malinga.

Sai Sudharsan soon got to his fifty with a thumping sweep shot against left-arm spinner Shivang Kumar that rocketed to the square-leg fence. But he was immediately dismissed by Sakib Hussain while attempting a reverse ramp.

Washington, though, ensured a strong finish for the home team. The left-handed batter began with clean, textbook shots for boundaries – a thumping cover drive against Shivang, an inside-out lofted hit against Cummins.

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Washington then switched it up in the death overs, bringing out acrobatic scoops and off-balance slog hits to successfully amp up the scoring rate. Then, GT pacers outdid their SRH counterparts in extracting the best out of the sticky bounce on offer.

Rabada and Siraj teed things off by suffocating SRH’s top-order with a constricting line and a menacing whisper of away movement.

While Siraj had Travis Head caught at deep third off a leading edge, Rabada cramped Abhishek Sharma into chopping on. Ishan Kishan was the next to depart, fending a Rabada outswinger to the keeper.

The South African pacer bowled an uninterrupted spell, ending with figures of 3/28, adding Ravichandran Smaran as his final scalp.

Holder and Prasidh smothered the rest of SRH’s resistance to sign off a massive win, which puts their side on the brink of playoff qualification.

Published on May 12, 2026