The first qualifier match of IPL 2026 is being played at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharsala. In this important match, Gujarat Titans have won the toss and decided to bowl first. There has been a big change in the Gujarat team. For the first time this season, left arm fast bowler Kulwant Khejroliya has got a place in the last eleven. Phil Salt is not playing for RCB even today.

Playing XI of Royal Challengers Bangalore- Venkatesh Iyer, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jacob Duffy, Josh Hazlewood and Rasikh Salam Dar.

Playing XI of Gujarat Titans- Sai Sudarshan, Shubman Gill (captain), Jos Buttler (wicketkeeper), Washington Sundar, Nishant Sindhu, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Kulwant Khejroliya, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna.

One of these will be the impact player of Gujarat Titans- Rahul Tewatia, Glenn Phillips, Anuj Rawat, Kumar Kushagra, Sai Kishore

One of these will be the impact player of Royal Challengers Bangalore- Romario Shepherd, Suyyash Sharma, Kanishk Chauhan, Abhinandan Singh, Jordan Cox

Match canceled due to rain, what will happen next?

The Qualifier-1 match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans is being played in Dharamshala. If there is rain in the match then there is no reserve day for Qualifier-1. In such a situation, the match officials will make every effort to complete the match today itself. An additional time of 120 minutes will also be added in case of rain. If a five-over match does not start even after 120 minutes of extra time is added, the match will be declared cancelled. Since the team that wins Qualifier-1 goes to the finals, but the match could not start due to rain, then which team will go to the finals, this is the big question?

If the Qualifier-1 match is cancelled, the winner will be decided on the basis of better position in the points table. This means that the team which was higher in the points table will get the ticket for the final. Let us remind you that Royal Challengers Bangalore was on top of the points table, so if the Qualifier 1 match does not start today due to rain, then RCB will reach the finals.

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In the 61st match of IPL 2026, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have given a target of 223 runs to Punjab Kings (PBKS) after playing first. Once again Punjab players did bad fielding, of which RCB took full advantage. For the 9th time this season, Punjab Kings have scored more than 200 runs. Whereas in IPL 2026, a score of more than 200 has been made for the 53rd time. RCB put 222 runs on the board for 4 wickets in 20 overs.

Virat Kohli played a brilliant inning of 58 runs for RCB. He hit four fours and three sixes. Whereas Venkatesh Iyer scored unbeaten 73 runs in 40 balls. He hit 8 fours and 4 sixes. Devdutt Padikkal scored 45 runs. Whereas Tim David played an innings of 28 runs in 12 balls.

Punjab captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl first. Bengaluru team lost the wicket of Jacob Bethel (11) in the third over itself. Devdutt Padikkal hit a six on Harpreet as soon as he came, while Kohli also sent the balls of Azmatullah Omarzai and Lockie Ferguson to the audience. In this way, RCB made a steady start by scoring 61 runs for one wicket in the powerplay.

Padikkal welcomed Chahal with two sixes while Kohli also hit a four on the leg spinner. However, when Padikkal was looking in good form, he played Harpreet’s ball straight into the hands of Iyer in the covers. Facing 25 balls, he hit four fours and three sixes.

Bengaluru’s century of runs was completed in the 10th over. Kohli completed his fourth half-century of the current season in 31 balls with a six and one run on Shashank Singh. Venkatesh also hit two consecutive fours on Harpreet after hitting a four on Ferguson. Venkatesh took the team’s score beyond 150 runs with two sixes off Chahal in the 15th over, but in the same over, Kohli was caught by Priyansh Arya at deep midwicket.

Venkatesh hit two sixes and a four on Ferguson in the 17th over and during this he completed his first half-century of the season in 29 balls. In the next over, the team’s runs also completed a double century.

In the 50th match of IPL 2026, Lucknow Super Giants have given a target of 213 runs to Royal Challengers Bangalore. Due to rain, this match is being played for 19-19 overs. The match was stopped several times during Lucknow’s innings due to rain. For Lucknow, Mitchell Marsh played a brilliant inning of 111 runs in 56 balls. 9 fours and 9 sixes came from his bat. This season, for the first time such a big score has been made in Ekana, Lucknow. Earlier the highest score here was 165 runs.

Mitchell Marsh played a century inning of 111 runs for Lucknow. Whereas Nicholas Puran scored 38 runs in 23 balls. Four fours and one six came from his bat. In the end, captain Rishabh Pant scored unbeaten 32 runs in just 10 balls. Pant hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. Lucknow Super Giants scored 209 runs for 3 wickets in 19 overs, but RCB has got the DLS target of 213 runs.

After losing the toss, Lucknow came to bat first and got a great start from Arshin Kulkarni and Mitchell Marsh. Arshin Kulkarni was out in the 10th over with a total score of 95. He scored 17 runs in 24 balls. Mitchell Marsh scored 111 runs in 56 balls, Nicholas Pooran scored 38 runs in 23 balls, Rishabh Pant scored 32 not out in 10 balls and Aiden Markram scored one unbeaten run in one ball. For RCB, Rasikh Dar Salaam, Josh Hazlewood and Krunal Pandya took one wicket each.

Mitchell Marsh scored the fastest century in IPL

Mitchell Marsh completed his century in 49 balls. He has also become the first batsman of Lucknow Super Giants to complete a century in less than 50 balls in IPL. Marsh has created a series of records on the basis of this century, because he is the first batsman who has scored 2 centuries for Lucknow in IPL. Before him, Rishabh Pant, Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul and Marcus Stoinis have scored centuries for Lucknow.

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In the 50th match of IPL 2026, Royal Challengers Bangalore have won the toss and decided to bowl first. The team batting first has not won at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow this season. Many players of Lucknow Super Giants are injured. In such a situation, there have been many changes in the Lucknow team. Whereas RCB has not made any changes.

Know what Rajat Patidar said after the toss?

After the toss, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Rajat Patidar said, “We will bowl first. Not as noisy as Chinnaswamy, but still noisy. The pitch looks good and we will try to restrict them to low scores. The break has been good; all the players are performing well and we practiced well. We are playing with the same team.”

Know what Rishabh Pant said after the toss?

After the toss, Lucknow Super Giants captain Rishabh Pant said, “There have been some changes in our team. Some players have got injured. Josh English and Mohsin Khan will not be able to play. The most important thing is that we take clear decisions. We know we are the top team, but the most important thing is clarity. We have made some changes in the batting order. A stable environment is important, but it is also necessary to make changes from time to time. It looks like it is 180-190. It is a run-worthy wicket, which is better than other matches.”

Playing XI of Lucknow Super Giants- Mitchell Marsh, Arshin Kulkarni, Nicholas Pooran, Aiden Markram, Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper/captain), Akshat Raghuvanshi, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Digvesh Singh Rathi, Mohammed Shami and Prince Yadav.

Playing XI of Royal Challengers Bangalore- Jacob Bethel, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Rasikh Salaam Dar and Josh Hazlewood.

Only a few hours are left for the start of IPL 2026. The first match of the season will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad on 28 March. On one hand, CSK and Mumbai Indians will be eyeing their respective sixth titles, while RCB would like to be among the teams that have become champions twice in a row. Lucknow Super Giants, Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings are the teams which will enter the field with the intention of winning the trophy for the first time. But the success of any team will depend on a good playing eleven combination. See here with which playing eleven all the 10 teams can take the field.

Probable playing eleven of all 10 teams in IPL 2026

Chennai Super Kings- Ayush Mhatre, Sanju Samson, Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Dewald Brewis, Shivam Dubey, Karthik Sharma, Prashant Veer, MS Dhoni, Noor Ahmed, Akeal Hosein, Khaleel Ahmed

Punjab Kings- Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Marcus Stoinis, Shashank Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vaishak, Yuzvendra Chahal.

Mumbai Indians- Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock (wk), Will Jacques, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya (c), Naman Dheer, Sherfane Rutherford, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah.

Rajasthan Royals- Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Riyan Parag (captain), Shimron Hetmyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel, Dasun Shanaka, Joffra Archer, Nandre Berger, Sandeep Sharma, Vignesh Puthur.

Kolkata Knight Riders- Finn Allen, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Cameron Green, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Blessing Muzarabani, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty, Kartik Tyagi.

Royal Challengers Bangalore- Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (captain), Jacob Batchelor, Tim David, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jacob Duffy, Rasikh Dar.

Lucknow Super Giants- Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (captain), Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Digvesh Rathi, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Anrich Nortje.

Gujarat Titans- Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Jos Buttler, Kumar Kushagra, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabada.

Delhi Capitals- KL Rahul, Abhishek Porel, Pathum Nissanka, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Axar Patel, Vipraj Nigam, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Lungi Ngidi, Aaqib Nabi Dar

Sunrisers Hyderabad- Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Liam Livingstone, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Aniket Verma, Harsh Dubey, Jaydev Unadkat, Harshal Patel, Zeeshan Ansari

In IPL 2026, the Royal Challengers Bangalore team will be under the most pressure, because this team captained by Rajat Patidar will be defending its title. It is said that becoming a champion may be easy, but maintaining that reign is very difficult. After a wait of 18 years, RCB team became the champion of the Indian Premier League for the first time, defeating Punjab Kings by 6 runs in the final.

RCB had retained most of the players from last season’s squad and this time too the team is looking very good. But if Royal Challengers Bangalore wants to become champion again, then know with which playing eleven the Bangalore team can field.

Virat Kohli will lead the top order

Virat will be leading the batting line-up of defending champions RCB, while like last time, Phil Salt can become his opening partner. After him, Devdutt Padikkal and captain Rajat Patidar are well aware of the Indian pitches. However, his individual performance last season was mediocre. He was able to score 312 runs in IPL 2025.

The RCB team has stormy batsmen like Jacob Batchelor and Tim David, who can score fast runs in the middle overs as well as play the role of a finisher, while the all-round department of Bengaluru has been strengthened with the arrival of Venkatesh Iyer. Apart from them, Romario Shepherd and Krunal Pandya can also be seen creating havoc with the ball as well as the bat. There is no doubt that Bengaluru is ahead of other teams in the all-round department.

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Josh Hazlewood was the most successful bowler of RCB last season with 22 wickets. He may miss the first few matches due to injury, but the Bengaluru team and its fans will hope that Hazlewood returns as soon as possible. Apart from Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal and Nuwan Thushara, Suyyash Sharma is also an integral part of this team.

Probable playing eleven of RCB: Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal.

Phil salt will play IPL 2025 Final Back Ahmedabad from England: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) star batsman Phil Salt has returned to Ahmedabad. He will play in the final against Punjab Kings today. Earlier, it was claimed in many reports that Salt would not be able to play the final match.

Let me tell you that Phil Silet returned to England due to the birth of his first child. He did not appear in practice on Monday. After this, the news came that Salt will miss the title match. But now the latest update has come about Salt. Salt has returned to Ahmedabad from England. He will also eat in the final.

Let us know that Phil Salt was not in Ahmedabad on Monday. But he returned around 3 pm on Tuesday afternoon. Now he will be seen opening for RCB in the title match. Salt played a match -winning innings of 56 runs in just 27 balls in the first qualifier.

Salt went back home for his child’s birth. However, now he has returned to Ahmedabad and is ready to give his best to get RCB for the first time to get the IPL Trophy.

RCB’s possible playing XI in the final- Virat Kohli, Phil Salat, Mayank Agarwal, Rajat Patidar (captain), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal and Josh Hazlewood

Impact Player- Suyash Sharma

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RCB Playing 11 IPL 2025: The final time of IPL 2025 has come, in which Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings are going to clash. The title match will be played on June 3 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The RCB team has been seen in a very tremendous rhythm from the beginning, which finished second in points table with 19 points. Many players of the team including Virat Kohli to Josh Hazlewood are running in form. Know here how RCB’s playing XI can be for the final match?

All -rounder Tim David’s injury remains a matter of concern for RCB. He suffered an injury to the league match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. If David gets fit, then Liam Livingstone may have to sit out of the playing XI. In the opening, Virat Kohli and Phil Salat are seen in tremendous rhythm. On one hand, Kohli has scored 614 runs, while 387 runs have been scored with Phil Salat’s bat.

Mayank Agarwal, who came to the team in place of injured Devdutt Padikal, has not been able to do effective performance yet. But in view of the experience, Mayank can be given a chance in the finals and the fourth order will be handled by captain Rajat Patidar himself.

RCB will expect the most from them

Royal Challengers Bangalore will have the highest expectation from selected players including Virat Kohli, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Virat is the highest run -scorer for Bengaluru, while Josh Hazlewood has taken 21 wickets so far. Bhubaneswar has taken the most wickets against Punjab Kings in IPL career. He has taken 32 wickets against Punjab so far.

RCB’s possible playing eleven: Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Rajat Patidar (Captain), Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma

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RCB Playing 11 Qualifier 1 Against Punjab Kings: The first qualifier of IPL 2025 will be played tomorrow i.e. on 29 May. Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings will take on for tickets at the Mullanpur Stadium in New Chandigarh. Learn here how RCB’s playing XI can be in this match.

Let us know that the winning team of qualifier-1 will enter the final directly. That is, the winning team of Bengaluru and Punjab will get the final ticket. At the end of the league stage, Punjab Kings stood first and RCB in second place in the points table.

Let us tell you that in the qualifier match, RCB team can see a lot of change. Jacob Bethle is associated with New Zealand’s Tim Cifrt RCB team for playoff matches. Also, Josh Hazlewood has also returned to the team. He is almost certain to play.

These players can get space

Talking about the opening, Phil Salt and Virat Kohli will also be seen starting the innings in the qualifier. After this, Tim CIFT can be tried at number three. Captain Rajat Patidar will be seen playing at number four. Then Jitesh Sharma on number five and Mayank Agarwal can come on number six.

After this, Tim David may return to the team for Finisher’s role. He can play at number seven, and Krunal Pandya can appear in action at number eight. Krunal has played useful innings for the team when needed this season. In bowling, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Yash Dayal can be seen in action. Suyesh Sharma can play as an impact player.

RCB’s possible playing XI in Qualifier-1- Phil Salat, Virat Kohli, Tim Cifart, Rajat Patidar (Captain), Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Mayank Agarwal, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Yash Dayal.

Impact Player- Suyesh Sharma

RCB Playing 11 Changed: A great case has come to light in the Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Lucknow Super Giants match. This case is related to RCB’s playing 11. Actually, the playing 11 of the Bengaluru team was declared at the time of the toss, but shortly after that the playing 11 of Bengaluru was changed. How did this happen? RCB captain Jitesh Sharma had requested the opposition team LSG captain Rishabh Pant to change the playing XI, which was accepted by the Lucknow team.

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