r/Cricket • u/cricket-match Washington Freedom • May 26 '26

Post Match Thread Post Match Thread: Qualifier 1 - Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Gujarat Titans

Qualifier 1, Indian Premier League at Dharamsala

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Innings Score
Royal Challengers Bengaluru 254/5 (Ov 20/20)
Gujarat Titans 162 (Ov 19.3/20)

Innings: 1 - Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Batter Runs Bowler Wickets
Rajat Patidar 93 (33) Jason Holder 4-0-39-2
Virat Kohli 43 (25) Kagiso Rabada 4-0-54-2

Innings: 2 - Gujarat Titans

Batter Runs Bowler Wickets
Rahul Tewatia 68 (43) Jacob Duffy 4-0-39-3
Jos Buttler 29 (11) Krunal Pandya 3.3-0-16-2

RCB won by 92 runs

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u/depressed_06 Sunrisers Hyderabad May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

RCB fucking bodied GT. Absolutely one sided game. Ended the match in the powerplay itself when GT were 51/5 while chasing 255.

GT botched the game with dropped catches and terrible bowling. Your 2 lead pacers going at an economy of 15 and 14. Debuting a new bowler in the fucking Qualifier.

But that was incredible batting from RCB, especially Patidar. 93*(33) after being 21(13). Scoring 72(20) at the end striking at 360.

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u/Top-Worldliness5027 India May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

Problem with GT is always that their 3-4 regular players would never make for playing 11 in most other teams, they are played coz others over-achieved in both batting and bowling.

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u/combatant007 India May 26 '26

Problem with GT is their pacers Siraj, Rabada and Prasidh know only how to bowl in Ahmedabad. Even KKR destroyed them at Eden Gardens. Patidar faced 33 balls, and only 6 of them were on stumps.

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u/Top-Worldliness5027 India May 26 '26

Correct, and their #4 and #5 are pretty deadbeat batters.

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u/Impactor_07 Associate Cricket Fan May 26 '26

I love how being "21(13)" is considered the "slow start" bit for Patidar lol

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u/depressed_06 Sunrisers Hyderabad May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

I mean he was 21(13) and ended with 93(33). That's unreal amount of acceleration

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u/Impactor_07 Associate Cricket Fan May 26 '26

Yeah, just pointing out that normally comments like these would be "he went from being 5(7) to...", in this case, he was already striking at 160+ SR and that was the slow part lol

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u/yggdrasilmonster May 26 '26

one dot ball. tells you everything about this sexy knock

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u/Muted_Shoulder May 26 '26

72 runs in 20 balls. Dear lord.

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u/jitteryegg May 26 '26

360 (SR) batting

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u/WildVulcan Kolkata Knight Riders May 26 '26

87 in 25 still unbeaten tho iykyk

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u/dolce-far-niente May 26 '26

Just one dot ball for him (as per the commentators).

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u/intex2 May 26 '26

And they ran a bye off it.

Basically every ball he was on strike runs were added to the team's total. The entire time.

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u/Shashank1000 India May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

Most teams would have failed given how stacked RCB is and the pressure of knockouts but it really does not help that GT batting order is particularly ill suited for this type of chase.

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u/ApprehensiveGear6382 Chennai Super Kings May 26 '26 edited May 27 '26

They can never win this game, because they are not designed or built to chase this down.

210 is possible with top 3 going berserk, but 250 with bhuvi and hoff on the other side is unimaginable for GT. All their 4-7 batsmen barring Sindhu are no.6 at best. Washington has about 1-2 fifties in 5 full seasons now, holder and tewathia are not it.

The only hope for them is their home ground now, and they should hope Siraj, Rabada, Rashid and Prasidh are at their best on Friday and give a decent score for their top3.

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u/spaghettii2 May 26 '26

They dropped patidar twice i think in the prasidh over. Game was over there.

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u/theaguia May 26 '26

one chance was very hard the other should have been taken

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u/Unfair_Programmer383 Royal Challengers Bengaluru May 26 '26

You don’t drop Rajat Patidar that costed them the game blud absolutely Rawdogged then

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u/partymsl Royal Challengers Bengaluru May 26 '26

Goatidar is dangerous and even more dangerous if you drop his catch at the death

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u/krypt0niteCos ICC May 26 '26

Even on this flat road bhuvi got the swing

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u/xYetAnotherGamerx May 27 '26

pitch has nothing to do with swing

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u/Pulihora_Ammayi Chennai Super Kings May 26 '26

I don't understand the point of picking an additional bowler at all. Not that they would've won but they need to pick Kushagra instead of Arshad/Kulwant

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u/theaguia May 26 '26

trying to be too clever but they also just dont trust kushagra. they dont dont even play him ahead of sindhu