Shubman Gill’s innings was heavy on the green, Gujarat scored a hat-trick of victory, KKR’s fifth defeat.

New Delhi. Gujarat Titans scored a hat-trick of wins in IPL 2026 and defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 5 wickets. In the 25th match of the season played at Narendra Modi Stadium, Shubman Gill led his team to victory by playing a captaincy inning of 86 runs. His innings overshadowed Cameron Green’s 79 runs. Batting first, with the help of Green, KKR scored 180 runs. Gujarat chased the target by scoring 181 runs in 19.4 overs. This is Gujarat’s third win in the season, while KKR’s account is still not open. This is his sixth defeat in 6 matches.

Gill played the match winning innings
Gill played an important role in winning this match by playing captaincy innings. While chasing the target, opening the match with Sai Sudarshan, Gill made a brilliant partnership of 57 runs for the first wicket. Sudarshan walked out after scoring 22 runs, but Gill held one end and batted fast and completed his half-century in 27 balls. Gill laid the foundation of victory by making a partnership of 38 runs with Jos Buttler for the second wicket and 46 runs with Washington Sundar for the third wicket. However, he was out after getting close to his century. Gill played an innings of 86 runs in 50 balls with the help of 8 fours and 4 sixes.

The match definitely went till the last over, but Gujarat won with two balls remaining. Rahul Tewatia remained unbeaten on 7 runs and Shahrukh Khan remained unbeaten on 3 runs. The winning runs came from Shahrukh’s bat only. Glenn Phillips contributed 19 runs. Talking about KKR bowlers, Varun Chakraborty took maximum two wickets for the team. Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine and Vaibhav Arora got one success each. Karthik Tyagi and Anukul Roy remained wicketless and also proved expensive. Both gave runs with an economy above 10.

Green’s hard work in vain
Batting first, the entire KKR team was all out after scoring 180 runs in 20 overs. KKR did not have a good start. Mohammad Siraj sent Ajinkya Rahane to the pavilion without opening the account. Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who came at number three, also could not show anything special with the bat and was out after scoring only 8 runs in 4 balls. Tim Seifert was also out after scoring 19 runs after facing 14 balls. Rovman Powell and Cameron Green handled the innings of KKR, which was in trouble after losing 3 wickets at the score of 32. Both added 55 runs for the fourth wicket. Powell was out after scoring 27 runs in 20 balls.

Anukul Roy became the victim of Prasidh Krishna after scoring 9 runs in 7 balls. Rinku Singh also could not show anything special with the bat and he was out after scoring just one run. Ramandeep Singh faced 8 balls and scored 17 runs with the help of 2 fours and one six. However, Cameron Green held one end and batted brilliantly and played a strong innings of 79 runs in 55 balls. In this innings, Green hit 7 fours and 4 sixes.

Rabada took three wickets
In bowling, Kagiso Rabada for Gujarat Titans took 3 wickets for just 29 runs in a spell of 4 overs. At the same time, Siraj and Ashok Sharma took two wickets each. Rashid Khan and Prasidh Krishna took one wicket each.