With an all-round performance, the Gujarat Titans handed the first defeat of the season to Royal Challengers Bengaluru by beating RCB by eight wickets at their home venue.

With Siraj and Sai Kishore’s impressive bowling attack, Gujarat contained RCB for 169 runs while Jos Buttler’s unbeaten 73 runs guided GT to chase down the target in 17.5 overs. With the defeat, RCB slips down to the third spot in the IPL 2025 points table.

Speaking of the match, the Gujarat Titans won the toss and opted to bowl first. Phil Salt and Virat Kohli opened the inning for RCB while Siraj opened the bowling attack.

Arshad Khan made the first breakthrough by dismissing Virat Kohli for seven runs in the fourth ball of the second over. In the very next over, Siraj dismissed Padikkal for four runs and struck again in the fifth over by dismissing Phil Salt for 14 runs.

After losing their top three batters inside the powerplay, RCB managed to score 38 runs after losing three wickets.

Ishant Sharma in the seventh over, dismissed RCB skipper Rajat Patidar for 12 runs and made a massive breakthrough. Though RCB lost their top four batters for cheap, Jitesh Sharma and Liam Livingstone made a steady partnership and dragged RCB to score 91 runs at the end of 14 overs.

In the 13th over, Sai Kishore broke the partnership by dismissing Jitesh Sharma for 33 runs. Livingstone in the 14th over, survived a stumping after Jos Buttler failed to collect the ball cleanly.

Sai Kishore in the 15th over dismissed Krunal Pandya for five runs and loaded pressure over the RCB batting lineup. At the end of 15 overs, RCB scored 105 runs for six wickets.

In the death overs, Liam Livingstone started to execute an aggressive gameplay and secured his fifty in 39 balls and dragged RCB to score 149 runs for six wickets the end of 18 overs.

While Livingstone was expected to dominate the GT bowlers in the final two overs, Siraj in the second delivery of the 19th over, dismissed Liam for 54 runs and put an end to his aggressive batting.

In the final over from Prasidh Krishna, Tim David scored 16 runs and pushed RCB to post 169 runs at the end of 20 overs.

While chasing, the Gujarat Titans made a decent start but failed to lay a strong foundation for the team. Bhuvneshwar in the fifth over, dismissed Gill for 14 runs and made the first breakthrough.

Though GT lost an early wicket, Sai Sudharsan and Buttler started to build a partnership and pushed the team’s score to 105 at the end of 12 overs. Though Sai Sudharsan dismissed 49 at a crucial stage, Buttler continued the momentum and lead Gujarat to chase down the target in 17.5 overs.