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Royal Challengers Bangalore has won the trophy for the second consecutive time by defeating Gujarat Titans by 5 wickets in the IPL 2026 final. On the basis of excellent bowling, RCB restricted Gujarat Titans to 155 runs. While chasing the target, Virat Kohli played a brilliant inning of 75 runs. Kohli received the Player of the Match award in the final. Vaibhav Suryavanshi was chosen Player of the Tournament, he won many awards including Orange Cap. Know who received how much prize money.
Champion RCB got Rs 20 crore
Royal Challengers Bangalore received an amount of Rs 20 crore for becoming champion. The team has become champion for the second consecutive time, the team has won both the trophies on the same ground. Gujarat Titans, who lost the final, got Rs 12.5 crore.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi got so much money along with Sierra car
Vaibhav Suryavanshi was the Orange Cap winner, apart from this he got the awards of Most Valuable Player of the Season, Emerging Player of the Season, Super Striker of the Season, Most Sixes. He received a total of Rs 45 lakh as prize money including the Sierra car.
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IPL 2026 Awards List
- Winner: RCB- Rs 20 crore
- Runner up: GT- Rs 12.5 crore
- Most Valuable Player of the Season: Vaibhav Suryavanshi – Rs 15 lakh
- Orange Cap: Vaibhav Suryavanshi – Rs 10 lakh
- Purple Cap: Kagiso Rabada – Rs 10 lakh
- Emerging Player of the Season – Vaibhav Suryavanshi – Rs 10 lakh
- Highest dot ball: Mohammad Siraj – Rs 10 lakh
- Super Striker of the Season: Vaibhav Suryavanshi- Sierra Car
- Most sixes: Vaibhav Suryavanshi – Rs 10 lakh
- Most fours: Sai Sudarshan – Rs 10 lakh
- Catch of the Season: Manish Pandey – Rs 10 lakh
- Player of the Final: Virat Kohli – Rs 5 lakh
- Pitch and Ground Award: Eden Gardens – Rs 50 lakh
- Pitch and Ground Award: Dharamshala – Rs 25 lakh
What happened in IPL Final
After winning the toss, Rajat Patidar decided to bowl first. Both the openers of Gujarat Titans could not perform in the final, Shubman Gill was out after scoring 10 runs on the ball of Josh Hazlewood. Sai Sudarshan was dismissed by Bhuvneshwar Kumar on the score of 12. After this, Nishant Sindhu and Jos Buttler slowed down the innings and could not even score big. Sindhu scored 20 runs in 18 balls and Jos Buttler scored 19 runs in 23 balls. With the help of Washington Sundar’s half-century, Gujarat was able to reach a respectable score, he scored 50 runs in 37 balls.
Chasing the target, Virat Kohli and Venkatesh Iyer made a partnership of 62 runs for the first wicket, Iyer, who was suffering from injury, was out after scoring 32 runs. After this, Devdutt Padikkal (1), Rajat Patidar (15), Krunal Pandya (1) were out cheaply, then RCB was under pressure but at the other end, Virat Kohli’s brilliant innings continued and he took the team to victory by hitting a six. Kohli scored 75 runs in 42 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 9 fours.