Gujarat Titans (GT) captain Shubman Gill said he was very happy after his franchise registered a nail-biting one-run win against Delhi Capitals in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 match at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. Notably, this was GT's first win of the ongoing season after three matches.
DC vs GT
GT batted first and put up a strong total of 210/4. Gill led from the front with 70 runs, while Washington Sundar scored 55 and Jos Buttler added 52. With the ball, Rashid Khan picked up three wickets for 17 runs, and Prasidh Krishna chipped in with two wickets.
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Shubman Gill's take on David Miller's decision
Chasing 211, DC fought hard. KL Rahul played a brilliant knock of 92, and David Miller remained unbeaten on 41. But the match went down to the very last ball. DC needed two runs from the final two deliveries, but Miller decided not to take a single on the fifth ball. On the last ball, he missed while trying to score, and Kuldeep Yadav was run out, leaving DC at 209/8, just one run short.
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"Very pleased to get over the line in this one. (on what he felt when Miller didn't take the run off the 5th ball?) We have a chance to win. (chat before the last ball with Prasidh) No, we were just discussing whether to go for the yorker or to go for the slower one. But, you know, we decided that giving the wicket how it's playing, the slower one, if you bowl a good slower one, it'll be difficult to hit that for a boundary," said Gill after GT's win.
Gill on GT's mistakes
He also mentioned that small mistakes in the field made a difference in such a close game but was glad his team still managed to win.
"Apart from the overthrows that I gave and the boundary that I gave, I think those 5-6 runs, obviously in fielding, it makes a difference, especially in a game like this, you see you're winning by one run. So every effort and every misfield or every good effort counts. Definitely very pleased, you know, 210. We always thought on this wicket, we are 10-15 runs above par. It won't be like even when we were batting in the death, it wasn't easy to hit the big boundaries, just hitting, the slowness of the wicket. And we thought if we bowl well, you know, we should be able to win this one,"
With this win, GT moved to sixth place on the points table with two points from three matches and a net run rate of -0.270. DC are in fourth place with four points from three games and a net run rate of +0.811.