The defending champions, Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans, will take on each other at Dharamshala on Tuesday in the first qualifier of IPL 2026. When these two teams met earlier in the season, both of them won one match each.
RCB’s batter Devdutt Padikkal said the team is coming up with a collective effort and they would look to carry the good show.
“You always look at things you could have done better, but over the course of 14 games, I think we have performed really well as a team. It’s important now that we start fresh and take it one game at a time,” Devdutt Padikkal said in the pre-match press conference.
Stats Preview:
Shubman Gill needs one six to complete 150 maximums in the IPL. He needs 18 runs to reach the 4500-run mark in the tournament.
Kagiso Rabada needs seven wickets to complete 150 scalps in the IPL.
Rahul Tewatia needs one four to complete 100 boundaries in the IPL.
Ishant Sharma needs four wickets to complete 100 scalps in the IPL.
Sai Sudharsan needs 69 runs to complete 2500 runs in the IPL. He needs five boundaries to complete 250 fours in the IPL.
Rashid Khan needs five fours to complete 100 boundaries in the IPL.
Krunal Pandya needs 70 runs to complete 2000 runs in the IPL.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Squad: Venkatesh Iyer, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar(c), Jitesh Sharma(w), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Salam Dar, Philip Salt, Abhinandan Singh, Swapnil Singh, Jordan Cox, Kanishk Chouhan, Jacob Duffy, Richard Gleeson, Vicky Ostwal, Vihaan Malhotra, Mangesh Yadav, Satvik Deswal
Gujarat Titans Squad: Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Jos Buttler(w), Washington Sundar, Nishant Sindhu, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Arshad Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Anuj Rawat, Glenn Phillips, Rahul Tewatia, Kulwant Khejroliya, Kumar Kushagra, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Shahrukh Khan, Ishant Sharma, Luke Wood, Ashok Sharma, Connor Esterhuizen, Gurnoor Brar, Manav Suthar, Jayant Yadav
