RCB suffered a crushing defeat, despite the strong performance of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Gujarat won the match with 25 balls remaining.

RCB suffered a crushing defeat, despite the strong performance of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Gujarat won the match with 25 balls remaining.

Gujarat Titans have defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 4 wickets. In this match played at Narendra Modi Stadium, Bangalore team failed to win despite the brilliant performance of Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Bhuvneshwar took three wickets in this match. With this achievement, he has touched the milestone of 350 wickets in his T20 career. After losing the toss, Bangalore team came to bat first. Virat Kohli scored 28 runs, while Devdutt Padikkal contributed 40 runs. All the other batsmen of RCB could not show anything special. The team could barely score 155 runs.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar created history
In this match, as he took the wicket of Sai Sudarshan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar reached the mark of 350 wickets in his T20 career. He is the second Indian player after Yuzvendra Chahal to achieve this feat in T20 cricket. Bhuvneshwar Kumar completed 350 wickets in his 325th match. In this match against Gujarat Titans, he took the wickets of Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill and Jos Buttler, taking his total T20 wickets to 352.

Gujarat’s fifth victory
This was Gujarat Titans’ fifth win in the IPL 2026 season, taking them to fifth place in the points table with 10 points. At the same time, RCB remains in second place. When Gujarat team set out to chase the target of 156 runs, Sai Sudarshan was out early; However, captain Shubhman Gill wreaked havoc with his batting, scoring a blistering inning of 43 runs in just 18 balls. Virat Kohli played an important role in dismissing Gill by taking a brilliant catch. Jos Buttler scored 39 runs in 19 balls.

In the end, Rahul Tewatia—who had come in as an ‘impact player’—scored an unbeaten 27 off 17 balls, giving Gujarat their fifth win of the season. It was a big win for Gujarat, especially because they achieved the target with 25 balls to spare. This would also benefit their net run-rate.

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