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NEW DELHI: A period from Sai Sudharsan was not capable for Gujarat Titans to instrumentality to winning ways arsenic Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) chased down 206 easy to bushed Shubman Gill's broadside by 5 wickets successful their IPL 2026 lucifer astatine the M Chinnaswamy Stadium connected Friday, with Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal starring the mode successful the chase. Chasing 206, RCB got an aboriginal setback erstwhile Jacob Bethell was dismissed quickly. After that, Kohli and Devdutt took power and added 115 runs for the 2nd wicket, putting the location broadside successful a beardown position.Kohli made 81 portion Devdutt scored 55, and their concern ensured the asking complaint stayed nether control. RCB completed the pursuit successful 18.5 overs and moved to 2nd spot connected the points array with 10 points.Kohli got a lifeline erstwhile Washington Sundar dropped him connected zero disconnected Mohammed Siraj.
After that, helium settled successful and handled Prasidh Krishna and Kagiso Rabada well.He deed Prasidh for 2 fours, flicked Rabada for a six, and besides pulled Rashid Khan implicit mid-wicket for different six. Kohli reached his 50 successful 30 balls.At the different end, Devdutt matched him changeable for stroke. He deed Prasidh for 2 sixes and besides took connected Rashid for a maximum. He reached his 50 10 balls quicker than Kohli.Rashid yet broke the basal with a transportation that bowled Devdutt.
Kohli, who had looked successful power throughout, was aboriginal dismissed by Jason Holder, dragging the shot backmost onto his stumps.RCB past had a little illness arsenic skipper Rajat Patidar and Jitesh Sharma besides got out, leaving them astatine 173 for five.But Krunal Pandya made 23 disconnected 12 balls and Tim David added 10 to instrumentality RCB home. It was their 4th triumph astatine Chinnaswamy successful 5 matches this season.Earlier, Sai Sudharsan scored 100 to assistance Gujarat Titans station 205 for 3 aft being enactment successful to bat.Opening with skipper Shubman Gill, Sudharsan built a 128-run concern for the archetypal wicket. Gill made 32 disconnected 24 balls, but Sudharsan was the main scorer and dominated the stand.The left-hander made 46 runs successful the powerplay and reached his 50 successful 33 balls by hitting Romario Shepherd for a six. His adjacent 50 came successful conscionable 24 balls arsenic helium attacked the rotation of Krunal and Suyash Sharma.During the innings, Sudharsan besides became the fastest batter to scope 2,000 IPL runs.
He reached his 100 with a azygous disconnected Suyash.He was dropped connected 91 by Suyash disconnected his ain bowling but could not proceed overmuch longer aft the century. He was retired for precisely 100, giving a instrumentality drawback to Josh Hazlewood.After his dismissal, RCB pulled things backmost well. From 174 for 2 successful the 17th over, Gujarat managed lone 31 much runs successful the past 4 overs. Holder’s unbeaten 23 disconnected 10 balls helped them transverse 200, but it was not capable arsenic RCB completed the pursuit comfortably.
