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In the IPL 2026 match against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), Gujarat Titans (GT) emerged victorious by 82 runs at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
After suffering a loss, SRH`s skipper Pat Cummins said, “I feel they bowled really well in that second innings. I was pretty happy with when we walked off at the start, but yeah, pretty tricky wicket. I think they made the most of it, their bowlers, they bowled really well. So, yeah, maybe try and look at ways to get through that spell, but, you know, they deserve a bit of credit. Yeah, I mean, you always look at it. It looked like a pretty tough wicket once you kind of hit that back of the length and they didn`t really give us much to score. So, perhaps in our bowling innings, you kind of, you learn from that, you think maybe we could have held our lengths just a little bit longer. But overall, you know, I thought that, that`s as good as T20 bowling as you`re going to see from them. Our batting order`s been fantastic. So I don`t think we need to read it too far into today. I think all four of our top four have over 400 runs. So, the guys are going really well. This happens in T20 cricket. So we go to a couple of venues that we know quite well. So, take some confidence into that. (On qualification scenarios) I think getting ahead of the count pretty early (is important). I think we won five or six out of the last seven. Gives you a bit of breathing room these last few games. So, yeah, we`ve still got two games yet to qualify. So again, going back to what got us those wins in the first place and yeah, putting this one behind us pretty quickly”.
IPL 2026, Gujarat Titans vs Sunrisers Hyderabad: Match summary
In an attempt to chase the target of 169 runs, the Sunrisers were bowled out for 86 runs in 14.5 overs.
Impact Player, Travis Head, departed on a four-ball duck. Fellow opening batsman Abhishek Sharma was also dismissed on six runs in four balls, including a maximum.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs in seven balls, including a boundary and a maximum. Soon after his wicket, Smaran Ravichandran also returned to the pavilion on nine runs in 15 balls, which included a boundary. Facing 13 balls, Salil Arora managed to score 16 runs, with the help of three boundaries.
Explosive batsman Heinrich Klaasen and Nitish Kumar Reddy managed to score 14 and two runs, respectively. Facing 16 balls, Klaasen smashed two boundaries, whereas Nitish faced four balls. Shivang Kumar also lost his wicket on four runs in six balls.
Skipper Pat Cummins played a cameo of nine balls. During his knock, he scored 19 runs, with the help of a boundary and two maximums. Later Praful Hinge was also dismissed for three runs in eight balls.
Eashan Malinga stayed unbeaten on zero runs after facing three balls.
Gujarat`s Kagiso Rabada and Jason Holder bagged three wickets each. Impact Player, Prasidh Krishna, claimed two wickets. Mohammed Siraj and Rashid Khan also chipped in with one wicket each.
Earlier, having been put to bat first, Gujarat Titans` (GT) captain Shubman Gill was dismissed on five runs in seven balls, including a boundary. Wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler also departed on seven runs in 11 balls, which included a boundary.
Nishant Sindhu registered 22 runs before returning to the pavilion. Facing 14 balls, he smashed three boundaries and a maximum.
Later, Sai Sudharsan delivered a crucial knock of 61 runs in 44 balls, which was laced with five boundaries and two maximums. Washington Sundar also smashed 50 runs. His knock came in 33 deliveries, including seven boundaries and a maximum. Jason Holder and Rahul Tewatia stayed unbeaten. Holder scored 11 runs in 10 balls, and Tewatia smashed a boundary in one ball. With this, the Titans posted a total of 168 runs for the loss of five wickets in 20 overs.
Hyderabad`s Praful Hinge returned with the figures of two wickets for 17 runs in three overs. Skipper Pat Cummins and Sakib Hussain also chipped in with one wicket and two wickets, respectively. Having completed his quota of four overs, Cummins leaked 20 runs, whereas Hussain was smashed for 37 runs in four overs. Nitish Kumar Reddy, Eshan Malinga, and Shivang Kumar went wicketless in the IPL 2026 match against GT.
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