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Why is RCB’s biggest test for Sunday is most complete Gujarat Titans bowling attack

Why is RCB’s biggest test for Sunday is most complete Gujarat Titans bowling attack

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5 min readMay 30, 2026 07:55 PM IST Kagiso Rabada will run in from one end. Mohammed Siraj from the other. Between them, in the overs that follow, Jason Holder will step in. Then Rashid Khan. Then Prasidh Krishna. Royal Challengers Bengaluru‘s batting – Kohli’s stability, Patidar’s explosiveness, Tim David’s finishing power – has found answers to most challenges this season. On Sunday in Ahmedabad, it must find answers for all five. What makes Gujarat Titans’ attack particularly dangerous is not merely the quality of individuals but the variety they bring collectively. It is a unit rooted in traditional Test-match lengths, forcing batsmen to constantly rethink their approach across all twenty overs. There are no easy phases. There is no obvious gap. RCB’s batting has been one of the defining stories of IPL 2026 – built around clearly defined roles, it has answered most challenges thrown its way. But this is arguably the most complete bowling attack in the league, and the most complete test it has faced. Rabada has been the standout bowler of …

Gujarat Titans refused to play T20 like everyone else; RCB will find out why on Tuesday

Gujarat Titans refused to play T20 like everyone else; RCB will find out why on Tuesday

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5 min readMay 25, 2026 07:58 PM IST Kagiso Rabada runs in with the new ball, seam held upright, presenting it at an angle that belongs in a Test match. The length is fuller than T20 batsmen expect, the line tighter, and when the ball pitches it moves either way off the surface. The bounce arrives chest-high. Modern T20 batting is built for pace and yorkers. Rabada offers seam and length. Seventeen of his twenty-four wickets this season have come in the first six overs. The batsmen cannot find rhythm against something they were not prepared to face. In IPL 2026, the powerplay scoring rate has reached 10.47 runs per over. Teams chase sixes. Gujarat Titans chose something else. Shubman Gill and B Sai Sudharsan open together but don’t slog and do not provide high-flying starts. Gill was dropped from India’s T20 World Cup squad at the eleventh hour because his approach did not fit the current era. Sudharsan, a bright batting prospect in Tests, has not replicated that form in the shortest format. Most …

‘They don’t change their game’

‘They don’t change their game’

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3 min readMay 22, 2026 09:29 AM IST Rashid Khan believes the understanding between Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan has been one of the biggest reasons behind Gujarat Titans’ batting success in IPL 2026. The latest example came against CSK, where Gill and Sudharsan stitched together a 125-run opening stand that set up GT’s massive total of 229. Over the last few seasons, the pair have become the backbone of GT’s batting, combining consistency with a calm understanding of tempo and match situations. “Shubman, I think he is getting better and better each and every day,” Rashid said after GT’s 89-run win over Chennai Super Kings in Ahmedabad on Thursday. “He is adjusting himself with the condition and the grounds very quickly, and he reads the game very quickly, and I feel like that’s the reason behind him and Sai Sudharsan.” ALSO READ | What makes Gujarat Titans strong contenders to win IPL 2026 “They take a little bit of time, and they know their game very well,” he said. “I think they don’t change …

What makes Gujarat Titans strong contenders to win IPL 2026

What makes Gujarat Titans strong contenders to win IPL 2026

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Synopsis: Top-heavy Titans crush CSK bowling before their bowling class put an end to their season in an emphatic manner. Gujarat Titans seem to be getting into the groove at the perfect time. An all-round awesome performance put the Chennai Super Kings out of their misery as the five-time champions were thrashed by 89 runs. A target of 230 was always going to be too high against a bowling attack of GT’s class, and CSK’s sorry season ended with being bowled out inside 14 overs. They or their strokeplay are unlike anything expected of a typical T20 opening partnership these days. But Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill continue to get the job done, while being easy on the eye. Thursday brought their seventh century partnership in the IPL, as they set up Gujarat Titans’ impressive victory over Chennai Super Kings, that put the latter finally out of playoff contention. It’s not that Sai and Gill didn’t improvise or play around with the bowlers’ lines and length. But there was no slogging – in fact, on the …

Gujarat move to 2nd place: Gill, Rashid architects of GT’s 77-run win over RR | Cricket News

Gujarat move to 2nd place: Gill, Rashid architects of GT’s 77-run win over RR | Cricket News

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Gujarat Titans beat Rajasthan Royals by 77 runs in Jaipur on Friday night to move to second spot on the IPL table but equal with leaders Sunrisers Hyderabad on points — both on 14 points. Rajasthan’s stand-in captain Yashasvi Jaiswal won the toss and chose to bowl. GT gave him 229 to chase. Shubman Gill made 84. Rashid Khan took four wickets. Washington Sundar’s unbeaten 37 off 20 pushed the total from 185 to 229. Rajasthan, missing Riyan Parag with a hamstring injury, were never in the chase — bundled out for 152 in 16.3 overs. For RR, a fifth defeat in their last six leaves them fifth on the table, their playoffs place no longer secure. Gill, unhurried Shubman Gill scored one run off his first five balls. Sai Sudharsan was already in flow at the other end, and Gill watched. When Archer came back in the fourth over, Gill punched him through cover for four, then lofted one back over long-off, holding the pose. Fifteen off the over. Then fifteen more off Archer’s …

How MS Dhoni and Sridharan Sriram fixed Noor Ahmad’s broken wrist-spin — and why CSK need it to hold

How MS Dhoni and Sridharan Sriram fixed Noor Ahmad’s broken wrist-spin — and why CSK need it to hold

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4 min readUpdated: May 9, 2026 07:51 PM IST When Noor Ahmad runs in to bowl during CSK’s net sessions at Chepauk, MS Dhoni steps out of the dressing room. He walks to the back of the nets, stands there, watches. A word here and there — the same quiet presence he maintains in the middle of matches, standing up to the stumps, making small adjustments with his hands. For Noor, it has been a constant these past weeks. It has also been necessary. Noor arrived in Chennai not in the best of form. He had gone nearly three months without a wicket. The problem had a name — the same problem that had surfaced in 2021, when an arm injury forced him to rely excessively on his googly because bowling leg-breaks caused pain. Five years on, the injury was gone but the habit had stayed. Over-exposure to T20 cricket through a year of globe-trotting had done the same damage more slowly. The googly had become the stock delivery. And when the googly is your …

‘I feel it’s at a standstill…’ IPL record wicket-taker on role of spinners in IPL

‘I feel it’s at a standstill…’ IPL record wicket-taker on role of spinners in IPL

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4 min readMay 2, 2026 01:39 PM IST In the first half of this year’s IPL, spinners have bowled a total of 419.1 overs as compared to 553.4 overs bowled at the same stage in IPL 2025 edition. With spinners at the halfway stage of IPL having an average of 31.01 as compared to 29.15 last IPL and an economy of 9.11 as compared to 8.68 last season, this IPL has seen the impact of spinners in the league being not that impressive. 2007 T20 World Cup winner and two-time PL winner Piyush Chawla has weighed his views on the role of spinners in IPL this season and believes that the spinners are at a standstill in IPL. “I feel it’s at a standstill. And there is not much of an improvement from the spinner’s point of view. The spinners who have just come in there and bowled those good lengths and just didn’t try to do too many extra things, they have been doing well,” Chawla, who is the fourth highest wicket-taker with his …

Rabada got Kohli. Holder got everyone else

Rabada got Kohli. Holder got everyone else

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5 min readUpdated: May 1, 2026 12:14 AM IST Gujarat Titans did not win this game with one moment. They won it with accumulation — Shubman Gill’s 43 in 18 balls, Jos Buttler’s four sixes in the Powerplay, Rahul Tewatia’s calm at the death, and through it all, Jason Holder standing on the field, arms aloft, slowly turning to the crowd. Royal Challengers Bengaluru, dismissed for 155 — their first all-out of the season — never recovered from the middle-over carnage that Holder and Rashid Khan visited upon them. GT knocked off the target in 15.5 overs, winning by four wickets. Rabada’s revenge Kagiso Rabada had conceded five fours in his first over. The ball had gone past cover point, through mid-off, over mid-on, to deep backward point, and between cover point and extra cover. Virat Kohli’s bat had found every gap. Then, in the second over, Rabada came short and quick around middle and leg. Kohli advanced. The pace hurried him, the bounce handcuffed him. The shape left his body before the bat came …

Rashid Khan unlikely to feature in Afghanistan’s one-off Test vs India: ‘There is no target in Test cricket’ | Cricket News

Rashid Khan unlikely to feature in Afghanistan’s one-off Test vs India: ‘There is no target in Test cricket’ | Cricket News

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3 min readApr 9, 2026 05:29 PM IST Rashid Khan remains non-committal about featuring in Afghanistan’s one-off Test against India that is scheduled to be played in Mullanpur in June after the Indian Premier League (IPL). The star spinner said that he was advised by his doctor to stay away from red-ball cricket to prolong his career in the sport and that, along with the fact that Afghanistan don’t play in the World Test Championship, has resulted in him having to put Test cricket on the backburner. “It’s a little difficult in red ball, because that was the first thing which was told to me by the doctor, ‘You have to stay away from red ball.’ But I still played a Test against Zimbabwe,” Rashid told reporters after starring in Gujarat Titan’s one-run win over Delhi Capitals in the IPL on Thursday. Rashid had been diagnosed with a back injury before the 2023 World Cup and since then, he has had to ration his appearances in Test cricket. Rashid last played in a Test against …

Rashid Khan’s comeback route: Two-month break, working on fitness and bolstering core strength | Cricket News

Rashid Khan’s comeback route: Two-month break, working on fitness and bolstering core strength | Cricket News

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Rashid Khan has rediscovered the joy of bowling leg-spin. Whereas last season, he looked ponderous and reluctant, distrustful of his own methods, or trying too hard, he is smiling more often this campaign, he has regained the intensity of his action and not rushing through it, and the ball is obeying its master’s wishes. Among Rashid’s three wickets, the one that pleased him the most was the wicket of Sameer Rizvi, the googly that spun deviously to shatter the stumps of Delhi’s man in golden touch. “I think that it was after a long time, I got such a wicket,” Rashid said with a glee after the game against Delhi Capitals. “As a leg-spinner you want that kind of a delivery, where you beat the batter. Quite happy with that. That is something which gave me so much confidence.” Leg-spinners especially are confidence bowlers. The state of mind reflects on their bowling. Delhi Capitals batsman Sameer Rizvi gets outfoxed by Gujarat Titans’ Rashid Khan during an IPL match at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi …