'Would like to forget': Shubman Gill admits GT's nightmare vs RCB

NEW DELHI: A nighttime to forget. That is precisely however Shubman Gill summed up Gujarat Titans’ crushing decision against Royal Challengers Bengaluru successful Qualifier 1 of IPL 2026 astatine the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium successful Dharamsala connected Tuesday.

Gill’s determination to vessel archetypal backfired severely arsenic defending champions RCB piled up a monolithic 254/5 successful 20 overs - the highest full ever recorded successful IPL playoff history.Things lone got worse for Gujarat Titans during the pursuit arsenic they failed to equine immoderate superior situation and were yet bowled retired for 162.

The disappointment was intelligibly disposable connected Gill’s look during the post-match presumption arsenic the GT skipper admitted his broadside would privation to determination connected rapidly from the dense decision earlier heading into the all-important Qualifier 2."(Surprised with the mode the transportation behaved?) I mean, not really. I deliberation we were going beauteous good up until the 12th, 13th over, and I don't deliberation our fielding was astatine par, dropping a mates of catches, and past our crushed fielding was not up to the mark," Gill said."(There are plentifulness of learnings from this crippled for you arsenic well?) Yeah, definitely, you know, this is, similar you said, 1 of those games that we'd similar to hide and commencement implicit successful Mohali," helium said.

With the emphatic victory, RCB sealed a nonstop spot successful the IPL 2026 final.Gujarat Titans, however, inactive stay live successful the tourney and volition present question to Mullanpur for Qualifier 2, wherever they volition look the victor of the Eliminator betwixt Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals.RCB skipper Rajat Patidar wholly changed the crippled during the archetypal innings aft being dropped doubly by Gujarat fielders. The RCB skipper made GT wage heavily, attacking astir each bowler helium faced and racing to a half-century successful conscionable 21 balls.

GT besides endured a mediocre outing successful the field, leaking important runs done misfields and no-balls astatine cardinal moments.Patidar remained unbeaten connected a sensational 93 disconnected conscionable 39 balls, smashing 5 fours and 9 towering sixes successful 1 of the top playoff knocks successful IPL history.Chasing 255, Gujarat Titans ne'er recovered aft losing wickets astatine regular intervals. New Zealand pacer Jacob Duffy starred with the shot for RCB, claiming 3 wickets, portion Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salam and Krunal Pandya chipped successful with 2 wickets each."(Is that [fielding errors] thing that you'll code astatine training?) No, it's decidedly thing that we bash code successful the squad meetings and besides successful the signifier sessions. But similar I said, I don't deliberation it was a day, the strength was close there, but nether unit situations, we were not up to the mark," Gill said."(Were you assured walking retired to bat with the chase?) I mean, it's each astir getting a bully start, you know.

If you get a bully powerfulness play and connected a crushed similar this we cognize the shot travels and the outfield is besides precise quick. So if you would person gotten disconnected to a bully commencement successful the powerfulness play, immoderate people with the benignant of mode the wicket was playing and the benignant of crushed that we were playing at, it could person been chaseable," helium added.GT’s innings besides witnessed 1 of the unluckiest dismissals of the tourney arsenic opener Sai Sudharsan got retired deed wicket successful bizarre fashion.Sudharsan had started aggressively with 2 boundaries disconnected the archetypal 2 balls against Duffy and looked acceptable for a large innings earlier catastrophe struck. While attempting a chopped shot, the bat slipped retired of his hands and crashed onto the stumps arsenic helium began running."(On Sudharsan's dismissal) Yeah, I mean, you don't spot that benignant of dismissal precise often. So that was precise unfortunate," Gill said.