{"id":47173,"date":"2026-04-04T19:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=47173"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:24:03","slug":"ipl-2026-gt-vs-rr-live-why-did-rashid-khan-walk-out-for-the-toss-and-what-caught-everyone-by-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-gt-vs-rr-live-why-did-rashid-khan-walk-out-for-the-toss-and-what-caught-everyone-by-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 GT vs RR Live: Why Did Rashid Khan walk out for the Toss And what caught everyone by surprise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Rajasthan Royals have won the toss and have opted to bat<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rashid leads as Gill misses out, Kushagra gets first game<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shubman Gill missed the game as Gujarat Titans made a late change, handing the captaincy to vice-captain Rashid Khan for the night. Rashid walked out for the toss, confirming Gill\u2019s absence and a shift in leadership for this fixture. The change came without prior indication, leaving the Titans to adjust on match day.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time Shubman Gill is missing a game for GT. Only Rashid Khan and Rahul Tewatia (62) have featured in all their games as of today<\/p>\n<h3>Kushagra handed opportunity<\/h3>\n<p>Kumar Kushagra was drafted into the XI, playing his first match of the season. He has been part of the squad and now gets a chance to contribute as a wicketkeeper-batter.<\/p>\n<p>For Gujarat, the move offers depth while managing player availability.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Rashid Khan (Gujarat Titans Captain)<\/u><\/b>: \u201c[Are you surprised to see Royals win the toss and bat first?] Well, it is surprising. We wanted to bowl first. It is a fresh wicket. There is going to be some help for the bowlers early on. Quite happy with the toss so far.<b>\u00a0Shubman Gill got a little muscle spasm<\/b>. He will be back very soon.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Riyan Parag (Rajasthan Royals Captain):<\/u><\/b> \u201cWe are going to bat first. Looking a little on the stats, 70 percent have been favouring the side batting first. Plus we made a few changes to our side and that\u2019s why we are batting first.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div><b>Teams:<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-2 items-center\">\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Rajasthan Royals<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Gujarat Titans<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): Kumar Kushagra, Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler(w), Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan(c), Kagiso Rabada, Ashok Sharma, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \">\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div><b>Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams:<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-2 items-center\">\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Rajasthan Royals Impact subs<\/b>: Ravi Bishnoi, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Shubham Dubey, Brijesh Sharma, Ravi Singh<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"flex mx-4 wb:mx-4 py-2 border-t border-dotted border-cbChineseSilver wb:border-0\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-2 items-center\">\n<div class=\"font-bold text-center \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>Gujarat Titans Impact subs:<\/b>\u00a0Shahrukh Khan, Jason Holder, Manav Suthar, Anuj Rawat, Jayant Yadav<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Royals have won the toss and have opted to bat Rashid leads as Gill misses out, Kushagra gets first\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":47175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47173"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47195,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47173\/revisions\/47195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}