Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal guide RCB to five-wicket win over GT in final home game at Chinnaswamy

Royal Challengers Bengaluru signed off from the Chinnaswamy in style on Thursday night. Gujarat Titans posted 205 for 3, a total built almost entirely on Sai Sudharsan’s magnificent hundred, and for a period in the middle of the RCB chase, it looked like it might be enough.

Then Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal came into the picture. A second-wicket partnership of 115 in 47 balls put RCB in command, and though wickets fell in a cluster after it, the defending champions found a way through, winning by five wickets with seven balls to spare.

It was the kind of night the Chinnaswamy was built for, 411 runs, two centuries, a finish that went to the wire and RCB could not have asked for a better farewell to their home ground before the tournament moves to its next phase.

RCB vs GT: Sai Sudharsan carries GT to 205 but the lower order fires late

The Gujarat innings was Sai Sudharsan’s evening for the first fifteen overs. He and Shubman Gill put on 128 for the first wicket before Suyash Sharma had the captain caught at midwicket for 32.

Sudharsan continued unfazed, 100 off 58 balls, eleven fours and five sixes, a century of real quality against a varied RCB attack, before Hazlewood had him caught and bowled in the 16th over. Jos Buttler added 25 off 16 before Bhuvneshwar Kumar dismissed him, and then Jason Holder arrived to change the complexion of the final overs entirely.

His 23 off 10 balls, two sixes, one four, a strike rate of 230, took GT from 177 for 3 to 205 for 3 in the final two overs. Krunal Pandya went for 50 from four overs and Romario Shepherd conceded 17 from his single over. The total was competitive and the tail had given it a sting.

RCB vs GT: Virat Kohli and Padikkal put on a show that settles the chase

RCB lost Jacob Bethell early, 14 off 10, before Siraj had him caught, and for a brief moment, the chase looked like it might be more complicated than expected. That ended quickly. Kohli and Padikkal batted as though 205 was a modest inconvenience.

Padikkal reached his fifty off just 20 balls, two fours and six sixes, a strike rate of 250 in what was one of the most destructive half-centuries of the IPL 2026 season, before Rashid Khan bowled him for 55 off 27. Kohli was the anchor alongside him, 81 off 44 balls, eight fours and four sixes, reaching his fifty in 30 balls and then accelerating past it. before Jason Holder bowled him in the 14th over.

The second-wicket stand of 115 in 47 balls was the innings within the innings, the partnership that made 206 look achievable and then comfortable. RCB were 141 for 2 when it ended with 44 balls remaining. What followed was a wobble, Jitesh Sharma, Patidar and the score stuttering to 173 for 5, but Krunal Pandya’s unbeaten 23 off 12 and Tim David’s cool 10 not out got them home with seven balls to spare.

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RCB move to second in the table with this victory, their title defense looking increasingly credible as the tournament moves towards its second half. Hazlewood, back in the side and taking 1 for 40, not his most economical night, but his presence giving the attack a different dimension, is the returning component that strengthens everything around him.

The Chinnaswamy crowd had one last night of it, and the match delivered everything they could have wanted: a Sudharsan hundred, a Kohli fifty, a Padikkal blitz, and a finish that kept them in their seats until the final over. RCB’s last home game of IPL 2026 at the ground they have called their fortress ended the way a fortress should, with the home side winning.