IPL 2026 GT vs RR Qualifier-2 Highlights: Gujarat Titans defeated Rajasthan Royals by 7 wickets in the second qualifier and made it to the finals. Captain Shubman Gill made an important contribution in helping Gujarat win unilaterally with his century. Batting first, Rajasthan scored 214 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. While chasing, GT won by scoring 219 runs for 3 wickets in 18.4 overs. Gill played the biggest innings for the team and scored 104 runs in 53 balls with the help of 15 fours and 3 sixes.

Sai Sudarsh, who opened with Gill, also played a brilliant innings and scored a fifty. By making a partnership of 167 runs (in 77 balls) for the first wicket, both of them almost gave victory to the team. Sudarshan scored 58 runs in 32 balls by hitting 8 fours and 1 six. Like the previous match, he was out through hit wicket in this match also. Now Gujarat became the second finalist. The team will play the final match against Royal Challengers Bangalore on 31 May (Sunday).

Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s innings went in vain

Rajasthan captain Riyan Parag had won the toss and decided to bat. 15 year old opener Vaibhav Suryavanshi played an amazing inning for the team and scored 96 runs in 47 balls with the help of 8 fours and 7 sixes. Apart from Suryavanshi, Ravindra Jadeja scored 45 runs. The batsmen of the rest of the team could not do anything special.

Apart from Suryavanshi and Jadeja, Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 01 run, Dhruv Jurel scored 07 runs, Captain Riyan Parag scored 11 runs, Dasun Shanaka scored 03 runs, Joffra Archer scored 07 runs and Denovan Ferreira scored 38* runs in 11 balls. Ferreira’s innings included 2 fours and 4 sixes.

Gujarat’s wonder in chase

Amazing batting was seen from Gujarat side while chasing. Gill and Sudarshan made a big partnership. After the fall of both their wickets, the rest of the work was done by Jos Buttler, Washington Sundar and Rahul Tewatia. Sundar scored 16 runs, Butler scored 09* runs and Tewatia scored 17* runs.

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Despite a bad start, Rajasthan Royals have put 225 runs on the scoreboard. Rajasthan team had lost two wickets on the score of just 12 runs, but captain Riyan Parag’s innings of 90 runs proved to be a success. Dhruv Jurel also contributed 40 runs, but in front of the havoc created by Donovan Ferreira in the death overs, Mitchell Starc’s lethal speed also failed. Ferreira scored 47 runs in 14 balls.

There were 2 wickets at 12, then Riyan Parag shone

Within the first 12 runs, both the opening batsmen of Rajasthan Royals were out. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 6 runs, while Vaibhav Suryavanshi was clean bowled by Kyle Jamieson on the score of 4 runs. Riyan Parag was able to score only 117 runs in his first 9 innings of IPL 2026, but his form returned against Delhi. Here, while playing captaincy innings, he scored 90 runs in 50 balls. In this stormy innings he hit 8 fours and 5 sixes.

Riyan Parag along with Dhruv Jurel made a partnership of 102 runs. After that, Parag along with Ravindra Jadeja added 53 runs in a flamboyant manner. Parag was out after scoring 90 runs in the 17th over, but after that a storm named Donovan Ferreira was about to come.

Donovan Ferreira wreaked havoc

Donovan Ferreira came to bat in the 17th over. He hit three sixes in the 18th over of Kuldeep Yadav. After that he did not even spare Mitchell Starc, against whom Ferreira hit a four and a six. T Natarajan had dismissed Shubham Dubey on the very first ball of the last over. The last start was good for Delhi, but the end was equally useless. A four and a six came on the third and fourth balls respectively. On the last ball, Akshar Patel dropped the catch of Ferreira, which hit Akshar’s hand and went for a six.

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The winning streak of Punjab Kings captained by Shreyas Iyer was stopped by Rajasthan Royals. This is PBKS’s first defeat in IPL 2026 after 8 matches. With this victory, RR has reached third place in the points table. Talking about the match held on Tuesday, Punjab, batting first, had made a huge score of 222 runs, but could not defend it.

Rajasthan Royals achieved the target in 19.2 overs and registered a spectacular victory by 6 wickets. Donovan Ferreira was adjudged the player of the match, who scored unbeaten 52 runs at a strike rate of 200 while chasing. Before this, Vaibhav Suryavanshi gave an explosive start to the team, he scored 43 runs in 16 balls. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 51 runs in 27 balls.

3 big reasons for the defeat of Punjab Kings

Lack of ‘execution’ in bowling: Punjab Kings had made a big score of 222 runs. Rajasthan made a fast start, but when Yashasvi Jaiswal was out, Punjab Kings could have made a comeback, but the bowlers could not execute their plans properly like slow balls or yorkers. While the ball was coming haltingly on the pitch, Punjab bowlers bowled many full toss balls, these fast balls.

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Poor bowling in death overs: Especially Arshdeep Singh and Lockie Ferguson gave away a lot of runs in the death overs, which was a major reason for the defeat of Punjab Kings. Both the bowlers were bowling at a fast pace and there was no mix-up in their pace. Because Ferreira and Dubey scored runs by taking advantage of the speed of the ball, if there was a mix-up here then perhaps the batsman would have got trapped.

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Shreyas Iyer’s slow innings: Of course, the score of 222 runs was big, but seeing the way Punjab Kings had started, it seemed that their score was only 20-25 runs less. This happened twice in the middle overs when more than 10 balls were hit without a boundary. While Marcus Stoinis played an explosive inning of unbeaten 62 runs in 22 balls, taking the team’s score to 222, captain Shreyas Iyer scored only 30 runs in 27 balls.

So far, teams from 16 countries have appeared for the 2026 T20 World Cup. Pakistan has also announced its World Cup squad (Pakistan Squad T20 World Cup), due to which a big name like Haris Rauf is missing. The World Cup matches will be played in India and Sri Lanka and this tournament will run from 7 February-8 March. The squads of almost all the big teams have been announced, but the names of many great players are not included in them. Here is the list of those experienced and star players, who will not be seen playing in the T20 World Cup 2026.

Pakistan expelled Haris Rauf

Babar Azam has returned to the Pakistan team for the 2026 T20 World Cup, but Haris Rauf is out. Explaining the reason for this, coach Mike Hesson said that there was a discussion on including Rauf in the squad, but Shaheen Afridi, Salman Mirza and Naseem Shah can bowl in all three phases of the match (powerplay, middle overs, death overs), hence they were given more importance.

Livingstone and Ferreira also on leave

Talking about Liam Livingstone, his recent form has been very bad. After the 2024 T20 World Cup, he has scored 275 runs in 13 T20 innings. During this period, only one half-century came from his bat. In the year 2025, he played five T20 matches, in which he could score only 74 runs. This poor form remains the root of trouble for him.

South African wicketkeeper batsman Donovan Ferreira made his international cricket debut in 2023 and within just 2 years left a mark across the world with his stormy batting. Ferreira was given a place in South Africa’s provisional squad for the World Cup, but due to not recovering from the injury, he will have to miss the World Cup.

steve smith

In BBL 2025-26, Steve Smith created a stir with his batting and scored 299 runs in 6 innings. His average was 59.80 and strike rate was around 168. Smith hoped that this strong performance would earn him a place in Australia’s World Cup squad, but unfortunately it did not happen.

Yashasvi Jaiswal

Yashasvi Jaiswal had an ideal start to his T20 career. So far, he has scored 723 runs in 23 matches at an average of 36.15. Jaiswal’s strike rate is 164.31, while he has scored one century and five half-centuries in his T20 career of only 23 matches. But the opening batting slot is not vacant in the current team. Unfortunately he will have to miss the T20 World Cup.

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