{"id":47777,"date":"2026-04-08T19:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=47777"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:49:59","slug":"ipl-2026-dc-vs-gt-shubman-gill-to-replace-kumar-kushagra-dc-have-won-the-toss-and-opted-to-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-dc-vs-gt-shubman-gill-to-replace-kumar-kushagra-dc-have-won-the-toss-and-opted-to-field\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 DC vs GT: Shubman Gill to replace Kumar Kushagra? Delhi Capitals win the toss and opt to field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Delhi Capitals have won the toss and have opted to field<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Axar Patel<\/u><\/b>: We will bowl first. We have chased well in the last two games. That is why we want to chase.<\/p>\n<p><b>Shubman Gill<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 It\u2019s much better (on his neck issue), it\u2019s something similar (to what happened in the Test agianst South Africa). We were going to bat first anyway, if the weather stays this way, there\u2019ll be no dew in the second innings<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pitch report-<\/strong> Correctly assessing pitch and conditions is the first step towards winning any match. Let\u2019s focus on the boundary dimensions. Square boundaries are quite equidistant so no worries there. Down the ground is 73m. Behind me are sub-60m boundaries and batters might try to target that. Now, for this pitch and conditions<\/p>\n<p><b>Delhi Capitals<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): KL Rahul(w), Pathum Nissanka, Nitish Rana, Vipraj Nigam, Axar Patel(c), David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Kuldeep Yadav, Lungi Ngidi, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar<\/p>\n<p><b>Gujarat Titans<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): Shubman Gill(c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler(w), Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Ashok Sharma<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Impact Player Substitutions:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gujarat Titans:<\/strong>\u00a0Prasidh Krishna, Jason Holder, Manav Suthar, Jayant Yadav, Anuj Rawat<\/p>\n<p><b>Delhi Capitals:\u00a0<\/b>Ashutosh Sharma, Auqib Nabi, Sameer Rizvi, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Capitals have won the toss and have opted to field Axar Patel: We will bowl first. We have chased\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":47778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47777","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\/47777","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=47777"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47789,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47777\/revisions\/47789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}