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Date, Timing, Venue, Live Streaming, Playing 11, Head-to-Head, Weather-Pitch Report and Other Details

Date, Timing, Venue, Live Streaming, Playing 11, Head-to-Head, Weather-Pitch Report and Other Details

3 min readUpdated: May 30, 2026 01:16 PM IST RCB vs GT IPL 2026 Final Date Match, Timing, Venue, Playing 11 Prediction, Pitch Report: A high-flying Royal Challengers Bengaluru will aim to the double over Gujarat Titans within a week to complete a clinical defence of their title in the IPL 2026 final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. After 73 matches, the competition has been whittled down to arguably the two most balanced outfits. While Gujarat may have suffered a crushing 92-run defeat against RCB in the first Qualifier, their revival in the Qualifier 2 contest led by skipper Shubman Gill’s century asserted that Rajat Patidar & Co. cannot take them lightly in their home den. RCB vs GT Head-to-head Matches played: 9 RCB won: 5 GT won: 4 RCB vs GT IPL 2026 Final Predicted XIs RCB predicted XI:  Venkatesh Iyer, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jacob Duffy, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Salam Dar GT predicted XI: Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (c), Jos …

BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia says KSCA demanded tickets “far beyond” permitted quota

BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia says KSCA demanded tickets “far beyond” permitted quota

2 min readUpdated: May 8, 2026 10:19 PM IST The IPL 2026 final will be held at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on May 31. When the BCCI announced the playoffs schedule earlier, it offered only a brief explanation for dropping Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium — home of defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru — as the final venue. “Owing to certain requirements from the local association and authorities that were beyond the scope of BCCI’s established guidelines and protocols, the venue has been shifted and reassigned,” the board’s statement read. BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia has now told Sportstar what those requirements were. “As per IPL protocol, we are required to provide only 15 per cent of the total seating capacity as complimentary tickets to the host association. This constitutes the standard protocol; all host state associations receive a 15 per cent allocation of their total capacity in the form of complimentary tickets,” he said. The Karnataka State Cricket Association, he claimed, sought considerably more. “That was much beyond the allocated 15 per cent.” “We wrote …