Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans have announced their playing XIs for the IPL 2026 Qualifier 1 clash in Dharamsala on Monday, May 26, with both teams making key tactical decisions ahead of the high pressure knockout encounter.<\/p>\n
Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill won the toss and opted to bowl first, citing possible dew later in the evening. RCB skipper Rajat Patidar said his side was comfortable batting first and remains focused on \u201cone game at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n
A major talking point before the match was the absence of England opener Phil Salt from the RCB lineup. Despite earlier indications that he was under observation and participating in drills, RCB eventually left him out due to fitness concerns linked to his finger injury suffered earlier in the season.<\/p>\n
Jacob Duffy comes into the RCB playing XI as a replacement, strengthening the pace attack alongside Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.<\/p>\n
Gujarat Titans are fielding a strong batting core featuring Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill, and Jos Buttler, while their bowling attack will rely heavily on Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Rashid Khan, and Prasidh Krishna.<\/p>\n
Gujarat Titans Playing XI:<\/strong> Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill (c), Jos Buttler (w), Washington Sundar, Nishant Sindhu, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Kulwant Khejroliya, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna.<\/p>\n Royal Challengers Bengaluru Playing XI:<\/strong> Venkatesh Iyer, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (c), Jitesh Sharma (w), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jacob Duffy, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Salam Dar.<\/p>\n Qualifier 1 winner will directly qualify for the IPL 2026 final, while the losing side will get another chance through Qualifier 2 against the winner of the Eliminator between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans have announced their playing XIs for the IPL 2026 Qualifier 1 clash in Dharamsala\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":52827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52826","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\/52826","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52828,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52826\/revisions\/52828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}