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RCB vs GT Match Moments-Records: Royal Challengers Bangalore registered their 5th win by defeating Gujarat Titans by 5 wickets in the 34th match of IPL 2026. Virat Kohli played an inning of 81 runs and Devdutt Padikkal played an inning of 55 runs, leading RCB to victory and taking it to second place in the points table. Let’s take a look at the moments and records of this exciting match between M Chinnaswamy.
After winning the toss and batting first, opener Sai Sudarshan scored a brilliant century for Gujarat Titans. Sudarshan played an inning of 100 runs in 58 balls, which included 5 sixes and 11 fours. Along with this century, he also made many records. Sudarshan completed 2000 runs in IPL. He has become the batsman to reach 2000 runs in the fewest innings. Sudarshan broke Chris Gayle’s record. Gayle had made this record in 48 innings, while Sudarshan did this in 47 innings.
Sudarshan has become the Indian batsman to complete 2000 IPL runs in the sixth fewest balls in IPL. He took 1361 balls. Abhishek Sharma is at the forefront in this matter. He made this record in 1193 balls. Virender Sehwag, Rishabh Pant, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Yusuf Pathan are other names in this list. Sudarshan and Shubman Gill added 128 runs for the first wicket. This is the record of the biggest partnership for Gujarat Titans against RCB. Both of them have made a century partnership for the eighth time in IPL. Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers have the record of maximum century partnerships (for any wicket) 10 times.
RCB fast bowler Rasikh Dar Salam, who came to bowl the last over of the innings, had to leave the field. The over had not even started. Rasikh was seen in pain due to cramps. The physio did come to the field, but Rasikh was in no condition to bowl and he was taken out of the field. Krunal Pandya bowled the 20th over, in which Jason Holder scored 18 runs with three big shots. With this, Gujarat scored 205 runs after losing 3 wickets.
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While chasing the target, the RCB team got a big lease of life in the very first over. Washington Sundar missed an easy catch of Virat Kohli who went to flick his very first ball. This proved to be a major reason for Gujarat’s defeat, as Kohli played a match-winning innings to give victory to RCB. He was also chosen player of the match.
Devdutt Padikkal, who came at number three, batted stormily and scored a half-century in just 20 balls. Rashid Khan walked him on the fifth ball of the 13th over of the innings. However, by then he, along with Virat Kohli, had laid the foundation of victory for RCB. Padikkal played an explosive inning of 55 runs in 27 balls with the help of two fours and 6 sixes. There was a partnership of 117 runs between him and Kohli for the second wicket.
Virat Kohli missed the well-deserved hundred. After Padikkal was out, he changed gears and hit two consecutive sixes to Jason Holder in the next over, but was bowled on the very next ball. Kohli’s innings was 81 runs in 44 balls, which also included 8 fours and four sixes. During this period he also made many records.
In the eighth over of the innings, Kohli hit a skyscraper six over long-on on the second ball of the world’s best spinner Rashid Khan. This was his 300th six in IPL. With this six, Virat Kohli has become the first batsman in the history of IPL to hit 300 sixes for the same franchise. At the same time, he is only the third player after Chris Gayle and Rohit Sharma to hit 300 sixes in IPL.
Not only this, along with sixes, Kohli also made a great record of fours, which will be very difficult for any batsman to break. In the second over of the innings, Virat Kohli hit his first four of the match on the fourth ball of South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada. This was the 800th four in the IPL from Kohli’s bat. He became the first player in the world to reach this milestone.
An exciting moment of the match came when Virat Kohli hit a skyscraper six off Rashid Khan, which fell straight into the stands. When the entire stadium was dancing to this shot of Virat, the cameras captured Anushka Sharma sitting in the stands. As soon as the six was hit, Anushka jumped with joy and started dancing. This moment immediately went viral on social media. Not only this, when Kohli took his score to 81 runs by hitting two consecutive sixes, Anushka was also seen clapping for him. Even during his half-century, Anushka was seen cheering him and when he returned after getting out, she gave him a standing ovation in praise of his innings.
RCB won this match with 7 balls remaining. This is the second biggest run chase of RCB this year. Earlier in 2025, RCB had won against Lucknow Super Giants by scoring 228 runs. This is RCB’s 50th win on its home ground (Bengaluru). With this the team has become the fourth team to win 50 or more matches at one venue. Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings are included in this list.
