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Today there is a clash between Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2026 Qualifier-2. The winning team will be the second finalist of this season, which will face Royal Challengers Bangalore for the title. GT, captained by Shubman Gill, is coming after losing the last match and RR, captained by Riyan Parag, is coming with a spectacular win, in which Vaibhav Suryavanshi played a stormy inning of 97 runs in 29 balls.
This season, Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Titans have clashed with each other twice, know who had the upper hand with the bat and who wreaked havoc with the ball. Also know who is ahead in the head to head between GT and RR. Today Qualifier-2 will be played in New Chandigarh (Mullanpur), on the same ground RR defeated SRH in the eliminator.
GT-RR have clashed twice in IPL 2026
This season, both the teams faced each other on 4th April, when Ravi Bishnoi wreaked havoc with the ball and took 4 wickets. Rajasthan Royals won this match by 6 wickets, although Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s bat remained silent in this match. He was out on the ball of Rashid Khan after scoring 31 runs. Dhruv Jurel had scored the highest 75 runs, Yashasvi Jaiswal also scored a half-century. Kagiso Rabada took 2 wickets. Sai Sudarshan had scored 73 runs for GT in this match, although the team remained 7 runs short of the target.
After this, when both the teams met, Gujarat Titans registered a big win by 77 runs. In the match held on 9th May, GT, batting first, scored 229 runs and bowled out RR for 152 runs. Rashid Khan took 4 wickets in this match. Vaibhav Suryavanshi (36) was dismissed by Mohammad Siraj. Sai Sudarshan (55) and captain Shubman Gill (84) played brilliant half-centuries for Titans.
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GT vs RR head to head record
Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals have clashed with each other 10 times, in which GT has had the upper hand. Gujarat has won 7 times and Rajasthan has won only 3 times. Gujarat won the 2022 final by defeating Rajasthan.
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Talking about the league stage before the playoffs, Gujarat Titans had won 9 out of 14 matches. With a net run rate of +0.095, the team had secured second place in the points table, which is why they are getting 2 chances to reach the finals. The team had lost to RCB in the first qualifier.
Rajasthan Royals reached the playoffs by winning the last match of the league stage, the team stood fourth with 8 wins out of 14. In the eliminator, the team defeated SRH badly, batting first the team had scored 243 runs. Vaibhav Suryavanshi had scored 97 runs in 29 balls, in which he hit 12 sixes.