By Admin 
Gujarat Titans (GT) won the 56th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 82 runs on Tuesday. With this victory, GT has taken the top position with 16 points.
Gujarat Titans have reached the top position in the points table with 8 wins in 12 matches, while Sunrisers Hyderabad are at the third position after fifth defeat in 12 matches. Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants are already out of the race for the playoffs.
Gujarat Titans, who came to bat after winning the toss at Narendra Modi Stadium, scored 168 runs losing 5 wickets. The start of this team was very bad. GT had suffered two setbacks till the score was just 26. After this, Sai Sudarshan made a partnership of 38 runs with Nishant Sandhu for the third wicket.
Sandhu returned to the pavilion after scoring 22 runs in 14 balls, after which Sai Sudarshan along with Washington Sundar put the team in a challenging situation by adding 60 runs in 41 balls for the fourth wicket. Sudarshan was out after scoring 61 runs in 44 balls with 2 sixes and 5 fours. From here Washington along with Jason Holder scored 40 runs for the fifth wicket. Washington was out after scoring 50 runs in 33 balls with 1 six and 7 fours. Praful Hinge and Saqib Hussain took 2-2 wickets from the opposition camp. Pat Cummins had 1 wicket in his name.
In response, Sunrisers Hyderabad were reduced to just 86 runs in 14.5 overs. This team suffered a big blow in the form of Travis Head (0) on the fourth ball of the innings. Till that time the team’s account could not even be opened. After this the team also lost the wicket of Abhishek Sharma (6) on the score of 6.
From here Ishan Kishan (11) along with Smaran Ravichandran (9) scored 17 runs for the third wicket. Heinrich Klaasen (14) along with Salil Arora added 24 runs in 23 balls for the fifth wicket, but this partnership was insufficient for the team to win. Salil contributed 16 runs to the team’s account, while Pat Cummins added 19 runs. For the winning team, Kagiso Rabada and Jason Holder took 3-3 wickets. Prasidh Krishna took 2 wickets. Mohammad Siraj and Rashid Khan took 1-1 wicket.