RCB vs GT Final Live Commentary - Ahmedabad (31 May 2026)

FOUR! Nicely done! Rabada begins with a full and this is pushed across the left-hander. Venkatesh backs away and opens up the off side. A lovely extension of the arms and he carves it over point for the first four of the chase.

Fine riposte!

Six!

Iyer and RCB are away straight away. Siraj attacks the stumps with a good-length ball. A hint of shape back into the left-hander. Venkatesh punches it on the up back towards Siraj, who leaps and gets a hand on it. It dribbles down to the right of mid on for a single.

Leg bye! Slanting in at the pads, Kohli leans across to play the tickle but fails to lay any bat on it. The ball drops beside the strip on the leg side off the pads and the batters cross over.

My word, that was not far away from crashing into the stumps. Siraj pushes the length up. Iyer walks across the stumps towards the off side for the scoop but fails to connect and the ball swings just past the leg pole.

Bowled on a length, around middle and leg. Iyer swings hard to go big on the leg side. Gets an inside edge onto the pads and Siraj walks up and chirps at the batter.

Siraj hurls it on middle and leg and keeps it on a length. A bit of a late swing back into the batter. Iyer pushes at the ball with hard hands. It races down to deep fine leg off an inside edge, where Arshad Khan is a bit square and he cannot prevent the batters from coming back for the second. Siraj is not happy one bit and feels Khan should have done better there. To be fair to Arshad, the second run was always on.

Curving back into the pads, Venkatesh clips this full ball through square leg and hobbles to the other end.