IPL 2026 | Rabada and Holder rip through SRH as GT goes top

The Gujarat Titans’ irrepressible new-ball attack outclassed Sunrisers Hyderabad’s marauding top order in a much-anticipated IPL 2026 clash as the home team stormed to a convincing 82-run win at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday (May 12, 2026).

Titans pacers Kagiso Rabada (three for 28) and Mohammed Siraj (one for 11) ripped through SRH’s batting spine, reducing the away side to 32 for four in the PowerPlay in its ill-fated 169-run chase on a sluggish black-soil surface.

Prasidh Krishna (two for 23) and Jason Holder (three for 20) continued the chokehold into the middle overs to set up the Titans’ sixth consecutive win against SRH, a result which also lifted the side to the top of the standings.

Playing an equally important role as the home quicks were B. Sai Sudharsan and Washington Sundar, who scored battling half-centuries to construct Titans’ winning total.

The southpaws put on 60 runs for the fourth wicket to wrest control of the game after the SRH pacers dominated the PowerPlay, restricting the Titans to 34 for two.

The Titans’ opener had kick-started things with a polished cover drive against Nitish Kumar in the second over. His first six came only in the 11th over – a full-blooded slash over backward point against Eshan Malinga.

Sai Sudharsan soon got to his fifty with a thumping sweep shot against left-arm wrist spinner Shivang Kumar that rocketed to the square-leg fence.

Meanwhile, Washington had started with clean, textbook shots for boundaries. But he switched it up in the death overs, bringing out acrobatic scoops and off-balance slog hits to ensure a strong finish.

Then, GT pacers outdid their SRH counterparts in extracting the best out of the sticky bounce on offer.

Rabada and Siraj teed things off by suffocating SRH’s top order with a constricting line and a menacing whisper of away movement.

While Siraj had Travis Head caught at deep-third off a leading edge, Rabada cramped Abhishek Sharma into chopping on. Ishan Kishan was the next to depart, fending a Rabada outswinger to the keeper.

Holder and Prasidh smothered the rest of SRH’s resistance to sign off on a massive win, putting their side on the brink of play-off qualification.