Shubman on his haunches, Shastri asks 'Where's the fevicol?' after Sudharsan's bizarre wicket

NEW DELHI: Not once. Twice. Same dismissal. Same reaction. Gujarat Titans batter Sai Sudharsan suffered a bizarre dismissal during the IPL 2026 Qualifier 2 against Rajasthan Royals successful Mullanpur connected Friday, getting retired hit-wicket successful astir identical manner to his dismissal successful Qualifier 1 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru successful Dharamsala.With the antithetic dismissal, Sudharsan became the archetypal batter successful IPL past to beryllium dismissed hit-wicket successful back-to-back innings.

GT skipper Shubman Gill, batting astatine the non-striker's end, was visibly stunned. The Gujarat Titans skipper looked distraught and adjacent collapsed to the crushed successful disbelief aft watching his opening spouse locomotion backmost successful specified unfortunate circumstances.After Rajasthan Royals posted a formidable 214/6 successful 20 overs, powered by Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's explosive 96 disconnected 47 balls, Gujarat Titans got disconnected to a flying start.

Openers Gill and Sudharsan stitched unneurotic a period basal and appeared to person the pursuit firmly nether control.Just erstwhile it looked similar the duo would usher Gujarat Titans to victory, Sudharsan's innings came to an abrupt end. Attempting to enactment distant a debased afloat flip from Brijesh Sharma done the disconnected side, Sudharsan mislaid grip of his bat aft making contact. The bat flew backwards and crashed into the stumps, resulting successful a hit-wicket dismissal.

The assemblage was near stunned, portion Gill dropped to his haunches successful vexation astatine the different end."Where is the fevicol? Where is the glue?" Ravi Shastri quipped connected air.Chasing 215, Gill and Sudharsan made airy enactment of the target, adding 167 runs successful conscionable 12.5 overs earlier the unfortunate dismissal ended Sudharsan's innings. Despite the setback, Gujarat Titans cruised to a seven-wicket triumph implicit Rajasthan Royals.

After the match, Gill was asked astir Sudharsan's antithetic dismissal."I don't deliberation I've ever seen anything. No one's seen thing similar that, 2 matches, backmost to backmost successful a row. The mode helium got out. I saw immoderate video connected societal media that taping his hand, I deliberation I'm going to person to bash that successful the adjacent match," Gill said.With the win, Gujarat Titans acceptable up a rubric clash against Royal Challengers Bengaluru astatine the Narendra Modi Stadium successful Ahmedabad connected Sunday.