Gujarat Titans bowlers pose a strong bowling attack against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at their home venue – M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru.
Former RCB player Mohammed Siraj who has vast experience playing at Bengaluru, bowled impressively and bagged a couple of wickets inside the first powerplay. While GT’s key bowler Sai Kishore also executed an impressive bowling performance on his counterpart.
Speaking of the match, the Gujarat Titans won the toss and opted to bowl first. Phil Salt and Virat Kohli opened the inning for RCB while Siraj opened the bowling attack.
Arshad Khan made the first breakthrough by dismissing Virat Kohli for seven runs in the fourth ball of the second over. In the very next over, Siraj dismissed Padikkal for four runs and struck again in the fifth over by dismissing Phil Salt for 14 runs.
After losing their top three batters inside the powerplay, RCB managed to score 38 runs after losing three wickets.
105M SIX OF PHIL SALT. 🤯
– The reply by Siraj was ice cold. 🥶 pic.twitter.com/iufczfbCpS
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) April 2, 2025
Ishant Sharma in the seventh over, dismissed RCB skipper Rajat Patidar for 12 runs and made a massive breakthrough. Though RCB lost their top four batters for cheap, Jitesh Sharma and Liam Livingstone made a steady partnership and dragged RCB to score 91 runs at the end of 14 overs.
In the 13th over, Sai Kishore broke the partnership by dismissing Jitesh Sharma for 33 runs. Livingstone in the 14th over, survived a stumping after Jos Buttler failed to collect the ball cleanly.
Sai Kishore in the 15th over dismissed Krunal Pandya for five runs and loaded pressure over the RCB batting lineup. At the end of 15 overs, RCB scored 105 runs for six wickets.
