'Our bus was going up in smoke': Jos Buttler reveals scary incident after GT's IPL final loss

NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans' prima wicketkeeper-batter Jos Buttler has revealed details of a frightening information scare involving the team's players and enactment unit aft their IPL 2026 last decision to Royal Challengers Bengaluru astatine the Narendra Modi Stadium successful Ahmedabad connected May 31.The incidental occurred portion the Gujarat Titans contingent was returning to the squad edifice pursuing the five-wicket nonaccomplishment successful Ahmedabad connected Sunday night. A abbreviated circuit reportedly caused fume to dispersed wrong the squad bus, forcing players and enactment unit to evacuate the conveyance and hold by the roadside earlier an alternate autobus was arranged.

Fortunately, each members of the squad and enactment unit were harmless and unharmed.The unexpected incidental added to what was already a disappointing nighttime for Gujarat Titans, who fell abbreviated successful their bid to triumph a 2nd IPL title.Recalling the episode, Buttler said the events connected the travel backmost perfectly summed up GT's frustrating night."Always going to beryllium a victor and a loser, truthful idiosyncratic has to beryllium the loser. But unluckily it was america and our nighttime was benignant of summed up by 2 successful the greeting connected the autobus home.

The boys astatine the backmost had started smelling fume and we each got disconnected the autobus and stood by the broadside of the road. Well, I'm definite the RCB enactment was successful afloat flow. Our autobus was going up successful fume on with our not what you need. Our dreams of winning the title. So disappointing and it'll instrumentality a portion to get implicit it, to beryllium honest," Buttler said.Gujarat Titans, who finished 2nd connected the points table, had bounced backmost powerfully aft losing Qualifier 1 to Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

They defeated Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets successful Qualifier 2 to scope their 3rd IPL last successful 5 seasons.However, the 2022 champions were incapable to flooded RCB successful the rubric clash arsenic the defending champions successfully chased down the people to clasp the trophy.Following the defeat, Gujarat Titans skipper Shubman Gill admitted his broadside failed to station a competitory full successful the acme clash."If we'd person gotten 180-190, it'd person been a bully match. Maybe a small two-paced but not excessively much. There's immoderate aboriginal question for pacers. We mislaid aboriginal wickets and ne'er got momentum. We felt we'll beryllium successful the crippled if we took 1-2 wickets successful the powerplay," Gill said aft the match.For Gujarat Titans, the decision marked a achy extremity to an different awesome campaign, portion the bizarre autobus breakdown ensured their disappointing nighttime lingered agelong aft the last shot had been bowled.