IPL: No Shubman Gill for GT as RR bat first in Ahmedabad - check full playing XI

Rajasthan Royals skipper Riyan Parag won the flip and opted to bat against Gujarat Titans successful the IPL 2026 lucifer connected Saturday successful Ahmedabad.Interestingly, GT regular skipper Shubman Gill did not travel retired for the flip and is acceptable to miss the lucifer arsenic vice-captain Rashid Khan took the enactment relation successful Gill's absence.Gill's lack mightiness beryllium costly for Gujarat Titans."Gill has a musculus spasm, hopefully helium volition beryllium backmost soon," Rashid Khan said astatine the toss." We wanted to vessel first. Gill has a musculus spasm, hopefully helium volition beryllium backmost soon. KK is playing his archetypal crippled and look guardant to spot him play. We played bully cricket successful the past crippled arsenic well. Was a bully game. We request to bring retired 100% here," Rashid Khan added.Meanwhile, the Rajasthan Royals made 1 alteration successful their playing XI.

"We are going to beryllium batting first. We got to measure and accommodate to antithetic conditions. Hopefully we volition enactment up a bully people astir 210 and support it aboriginal on. I privation it to beryllium a squad that plays successful each conditions. Two changes. Tushar Deshpande comes successful for Brijesh and Shubham Dubey comes successful for Bishnoi," RR skipper Riyan Parag said astatine the toss. TeamsGujarat Titans (Playing XI): Kumar Kushagra, Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler(w), Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan(c), Kagiso Rabada, Ashok Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna Rajasthan Royals (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma