Thanks to the explosive batting of Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan and Washington Sundar, Gujarat Titans made their highest score of IPL 2026 against Rajasthan Royals. Gujarat Titans, who came to bat first after losing the toss at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur, scored 229 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. 21 runs were scored in the last over. Earlier this season, Gujarat’s highest score was 210 runs. Now Rajasthan Royals have a huge target of 230 runs.

For Gujarat, captain Shubman Gill played a brilliant inning of 84 runs in 44 balls. 9 fours and 3 sixes came from his bat. Whereas Sai Sudarshan scored 55 runs in 36 balls with the help of 6 fours and two sixes. Both of them made a brilliant partnership of 118 runs for the first wicket. In the end Washington Sundar returned unbeaten on 37 runs in 20 balls. He hit 2 fours and 3 sixes.

For Gujarat, Sai Sudarshan scored 55, Shubman Gill scored 84, Jos Buttler scored 13* in 10 balls, Washington Sundar scored 37* in 20 balls, Jason Holder scored 07* in 07 balls and Rahul Tewatia scored 14* in 04 balls. Brijesh Sharma took two wickets for Rajasthan. Apart from this, Ravindra Jadeja and Yash Raj Punja got one wicket each.

Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan created history

Shubman Gill and Sai Sudarshan have created history as the opening pair of Gujarat Titans. Gill-Sudarshan have become the ‘number-1’ pair from Gujarat Titans in terms of highest century partnership for the opening wicket in IPL. This pair has jointly reached the top in terms of maximum number of century partnerships as an opening pair by any team. Before this, the pair of David Warner-Shikhar Dhawan and Abhishek Sharma-Travis Head had made century partnerships 6-6 times as openers for Sunrisers Hyderabad. In this list, David Warner-Jonny Bairstow (Sunrisers Hyderabad) and Faf du Plessis-Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore) are jointly at second place with 5-5 partnerships.