IPL 2026: Rajasthan Royals trapped in Rashid Khan’s spin, Gujarat won the match by 77 runs

IPL 2026, RR vs GT: In the 52nd match of IPL 2026, Gujarat Titans defeated Rajasthan Royals by 77 runs. Batting first, the team captained by Shubman Gill scored 229 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs, in response to which Rajasthan team was reduced to 152 runs in 16.3 overs. In this match, the captaincy of Rajasthan was in the hands of Yashasvi Jaiswal. But he had to face defeat in his first match as captain.

Strong batting of Shubman Gill-Sai Sudarshan

Gujarat Titans, after losing the toss and batting first in this match, scored 229 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. During this, Shubman Gill played brilliant innings of 84 runs and Sai Sudarshan played brilliant innings of 55 runs. A strong partnership of 118 runs was also seen between the two players for the first wicket. Then Washington Sundar remained unbeaten after scoring 37 runs. Apart from these, Jos Buttler contributed 13 runs and Rahul Tewatia contributed 14 runs. On the other hand, Brijesh Sharma took 2 wickets for Rajasthan Royals. Whereas, Yash Raj Punja and Ravindra Jadeja got 1 wicket each.

Rashid Khan took 4 wickets

Rajasthan Royals, who set out to chase the target of 230 runs, had a bad start. Yashasvi Jaiswal was out after scoring only 3 runs. At the same time, Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored 36 runs in 16 balls, but the team kept losing wickets continuously. Rashid Khan displayed amazing bowling and took 4 wickets for just 33 runs in 4 overs. He sent Dhruv Jurel, Donovan Ferreira, Shubham Dubey and Ravindra Jadeja to the pavilion. Rajasthan’s batting completely disintegrated in front of his spinning balls.

Even though Ravindra Jadeja scored 38 runs, he was also seen struggling. Dhruv Jurel could also score only 24 runs. At the same time, Jason Holder also bowled amazingly for Gujarat Titans and made 3 batsmen his victim by giving only 12 runs in 2.3 overs. Apart from these, Kagiso Rabada got 2 successes. Mohammad Siraj also took the important wicket of Vaibhav Suryavanshi.

 

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