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Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan (Image credit: BCCI/IPL)
NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans openers Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan continued their sensational signifier successful IPL 2026 during their side’s clash against Rajasthan Royals astatine the Sawai Mansingh Stadium successful Jaipur. The GT duo stitched unneurotic yet different period opening basal and, successful the process, equalled a monolithic IPL grounds held by legendary Royal Challengers Bengaluru brace Virat Kohli and
Chris Gayle
.Gill and Sudharsan present person 9 period partnerships unneurotic successful the IPL, equalling Kohli and Gayle’s tally for the second-most period stands by immoderate brace successful tourney history. Only Kohli and AB de Villiers are up with 10 period partnerships for RCB.
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Most period stands successful IPL past (any wicket)
| 10 | Virat Kohli & AB de Villiers | RCB |
| 9 | Virat Kohli & Chris Gayle | RCB |
| 9 | Sai Sudharsan & Shubman Gill* | GT |
The Gujarat Titans openers brought up their 100-run basal successful conscionable 8.1 overs, wholly dominating the Rajasthan Royals bowling onslaught with their assertive strokeplay and fantabulous moving betwixt the wickets.With this partnership, Gill and Sudharsan besides equalled the grounds for the astir period stands for the opening wicket successful IPL history. The brace present person six 100-plus opening stands together, matching the achievements of iconic Sunrisers Hyderabad duos David Warner & Shikhar Dhawan and Abhishek Sharma & Travis Head.
Most period stands for the opening wicket successful IPL
| 6 | David Warner & Shikhar Dhawan | SRH |
| 6 | Abhishek Sharma & Travis Head | SRH |
| 6 | Shubman Gill & Sai Sudharsan* | GT |
| 5 | David Warner & Jonny Bairstow | SRH |
| 5 | Faf du Plessis & Virat Kohli | RCB |
Earlier, Rajasthan Royals stand-in skipper Yashasvi Jaiswal won the flip and opted to vessel archetypal against Gujarat Titans.
Jaiswal led the broadside successful the lack of regular skipper Riyan Parag, who missed the crippled aft suffering a hamstring wounded successful RR’s erstwhile match.GT made 1 alteration to their playing XI, bringing successful Prasidh Krishna successful spot of Manav Suthar, portion RR included Shimron Hetmyer and Yash Raj Punja.Teams:Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal (c), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Shubham Dubey, Dasun Shanaka, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Brijesh Sharma, Yash Raj Punja.Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Jason Holder, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Arshad Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj.
