Watch: Shubman Gill smashes Josh Hazlewood for elegant sixes in GT vs RCB IPL 2026 clash  

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) made a superb start with the bat during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 clash after the Gujarat Titans (GT) won the toss and invited the visitors to bat first on the black-soil surface at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. But they couldn’t continue their dominance. 

The Titans were exceptional in the middle overs and the death phase of the innings as they were able to restrict the Rajat Patidar-led side for 155 runs in 19.2 overs with regular wickets. After the dismissal of Virat Kohli, the Bengaluru side lost that glue in that line-up.

Shubman Gill smashes Josh Hazlewood for 24-run over in IPL 2026

Shubman Gill, the GT captain, was lucky on his very first ball of the innings as the inswing delivery divided him into two halves. On the very next delivery, the right-handed batter went forward and lofted over extra-cover as the ball flew over the deep extra-cover region for a massive six against Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

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Gill welcomed Josh Hazlewood with two successive boundaries. The first ball was on the length into the middle stump as the Punjab-born cut it around the backward point region before lofting the next ball between the mid-off and extra-cover fence.

The right-handed batter went forward to loft the full ball outside the off stump through the line as it came off the sweet part of the bat and flew over the long-on region for a massive six. He backed it up with a boundary, punching the short ball through the square of the ground. 

Gill finished the second over of the innings against the Australian pacer effortlessly over the deep backward square-leg as the ball flew off the bat. He walked with a swagger, putting an aggressive look at the RCB fielders.

GT continues aggressive batting in 156-run chase

Earlier in the first innings, Bengaluru was bundled out for 155 runs in 19.2 overs as their number three batter, Devdutt Padikkal, was the highest individual run-getter with 40 in the line-up. Arshad Khan finished with figures of 3/22 in 3.2 overs while Jason Holder and Rashid Khan claimed four in four overs of the innings.

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Gujarat didn’t hold back at all from the beginning of the chase. Gill played a fabulous knock of 43 runs off 18 balls with four boundaries and three sixes, while Jos Buttler contributed 39 runs in 19 balls, thanks to two fours and four sixes.

Brief Scores: GT 158/6 (S Gill 43, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 3/28) beat RCB 155 (D Padikkal 40, Arshad Khan 3/22) by four wickets.

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