RCB vs GT Qualifier 1 IPL 2026 Match Highlight: Royal Challengers Bangalore have reached the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 after defeating Gujarat Titans by a huge margin of 92 runs in Qualifier-1 in Dharamsala. Now on May 31, RCB will play the title match of this season with the other finalist team at Narendra Modi Stadium. If we talk about the match, GT captain Shubman Gill had won the toss and decided to bowl. At the same time, RCB, who came to bat first, made a series of records in this playoff match.

Thanks to the stormy batting of captain Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli and Krunal Pandya, RCB scored a huge score of 254 runs in front of Gujarat. This proved to be the biggest total so far in the playoffs in IPL history.

Gujarat Titans team, which came to chase the target given by RCB, collapsed for 162 runs in 19.3 overs. In this way, Bengaluru registered a big win in this knockout match of IPL 2026 by 92 runs.

RCB batting

Captain Rajat Patidar played the biggest innings for RCB, who came to bat first in Dharamshala. Earlier, Venkatesh Iyer, Virat Kohli and Krunal Pandya played fast-paced innings and laid a strong foundation to take the team towards a big score. Virat Kohli scored 43 runs in 25 balls with the help of 5 fours and 1 six. At the same time, Krunal Pandya also played an inning of 43 runs. Initially Venkatesh Iyer scored 19 runs. On the other hand, Jitesh Sharma remained unbeaten after scoring 15 runs in 5 balls.

Rajat Patidar made the record of biggest innings as captain

In this match of Qualifier-1, Patidar played an important role in taking RCB to a huge score of 254/5 by scoring unbeaten 93 runs in just 33 balls. He remained just 7 runs away from his century, but his innings put the team in a strong position. This innings of Rajat Patidar became the joint highest score as a captain in IPL playoff history. Earlier, David Warner had also scored unbeaten 93 runs in the playoffs, but he faced 58 balls for this.

Apart from this, Patidar also recorded the second highest individual score for RCB in the playoffs. Interestingly, the highest playoff score for the franchise is also in his name when he scored an unbeaten 112 against Lucknow Super Giants in 2022.

Gujarat bowlers were badly beaten

In the first qualifier match of IPL 2026, Gujarat Titans bowlers gave away a lot of runs. Mohammed Siraj scored 46 runs in 3 overs, Kagiso Rabada scored 54 runs in 4, Jason Holder scored 39 runs in 4 and Prasidh Krishna spent 53 runs in 4 overs. If we talk about wickets, Kagiso Rabada and Jason Holder got 2 wickets each and Prasidh Krishna got 1 wicket.

GT’s batting and RCB’s bowling

After the bowlers, the batsmen also continued their disappointing performance for Gujarat Titans as RCB chased the target of 250+. The team got its first major blow in the form of Sai Sudarshan on the score of just 17 runs. After this, there were expectations from captain Shubman Gill, but he also returned to the pavilion after scoring only 2 runs. Except Rahul Tewatia, no batsman could score a half-century for GT.

Rahul Tewatia played a struggling inning of 68 runs in 43 balls. Whereas, Jos Buttler scored 29 runs in 11 balls. If we talk about RCB’s bowling, Jacob Duffy took maximum 3 wickets. Apart from this, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasik Salam Dar and Krunal Pandya took 2 wickets each. At the same time, Josh Hazlewood also took 1 wicket in his name.