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Gujarat Titans’ fabulous five-match winning tally whitethorn person travel to an extremity with its 29-run nonaccomplishment against Kolkata Knight Riders. But Shubman Gill & Co. tin instrumentality bosom from the information that they are playing their last IPL 2026 league fixture — aft having already qualified for the playoffs — against Chennai Super Kings, the precise aforesaid squad they dismantled to footwear disconnected the blistery streak.
The scenery has shifted considerably since GT and CSK past met successful Chennai connected April 26, erstwhile some teams had six points aft 7 games each.
While GT (13 games, 16 points) has fixed itself a morganatic accidental of making the chopped for Qualifier 1, the five-time champion’s hit-and-miss run (13 matches, 12 points) has resulted successful it needing an NRR-boosting triumph and galore different results going its mode to sneak into the knockouts.
Armed with a lethal gait artillery and a three-game winning streak astatine the Narendra Modi Stadium, Titans volition clasp the borderline implicit Super Kings erstwhile they conscionable successful Ahmedabad connected Thursday (May 21, 2026).
No different team’s accelerated bowlers person taken much wickets astatine immoderate venue this play than GT’s seamers successful Ahmedabad. With 42 scalps astatine an mean of 17.69 and system of 8.12, Titans’ velocity merchants should beryllium fixed owed recognition for their bullish run.
CSK batting manager Michael Hussey is alert of the situation and wants his pacers to spot their individuality.
“There’s nary constituent successful trying to vessel similar Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj oregon Jason Holder. They mightiness beryllium a antithetic benignant of bowler. The astir important happening is to vessel to your strengths. The transportation present has provided bully gait and bounce, and GT has played it well. Our bowlers, too, volition bask bowling here. However, it’s important that we don’t effort to beryllium similar them,” Hussey said connected Wednesday.
The shot is successful the players’ tribunal now.
