Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Gujarat Titans (GT) will face each other on Tuesday in Qualifier-1 of IPL 2026. This match will be played in Dharamshala. The winning team will directly reach the finals. However, there is an 80% chance of rain on the match day. RCB’s biggest strength this season has been batting. GT has won many important matches on the basis of bowlers. His top-3 batsmen are also in form. In the match, Kohli will be challenged by Kagiso Rabada and Rashid Khan will challenge Patidar. As per the trend, the last 8 finals have been held between the teams playing Qualifier-1. All are names of the team that won Qualifier-1. Since the introduction of the playoff system in 2011, 12 out of 15 finals have been won by the teams that won Qualifier-1. Head to head record tied at 4-4, both have a chance to lead. Bengaluru and Gujarat are tied in head to head record. So far 8 IPL matches have been played between the two. Of these, 4 matches have been won by Bengaluru and 4 by Gujarat. No match was tied or inconclusive. Both the teams have faced each other twice this season and both have won one win each. Gujarat had won the last match by 4 wickets. Before that, Bengaluru had won by 5 wickets. Strength and Weakness: Bengaluru’s batting is strong, uncapped foreign weakness is Kohli, RCB’s top scorer, who has scored 4 fifties. Under the captaincy of captain Rajat Patidar, Bengaluru has crossed the 200-run mark 8 times this season on the basis of attacking batting. Virat Kohli is the top scorer of the team. He has scored 557 runs with the help of one century and 4 fifties. Apart from Kohli, Padikkal has scored 3 half-centuries and captain Patidar has scored 4 half-centuries. In Dharamshala, Venkatesh Iyer led the team to victory by scoring unbeaten 73 runs against Punjab. The pairing of Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar has provided strength in bowling. Bhuvi is the top wicket taker of the team. Jacob Bethel is struggling for runs. RCB’s middle order was aggressive at the beginning of the season, but batsmen from numbers 4 to 8 have flopped in the second half of the league stage. The team is facing continuous collapse. Uncapped and overseas player Jacob Bethel is struggling for runs. Gujarat’s fast bowling is strong, finishers are weak. Sai Sudarshan is the top scorer, Rabada took 24 wickets. Gujarat team has reached the playoffs on the basis of strong bowling and top order. GT’s bowling has been its biggest strength in the second half. Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna have troubled the opposition batsmen a lot. Rabada is in the race for Purple Cap with 24 wickets. Rashid Khan has taken 19 wickets. The team had defeated Chennai Super Kings by 89 runs in the last league match. Captain Shubhman Gill (616 runs), Sai Sudarshan (638 runs) and Jos Buttler (469 runs) are in excellent form. Orange cap holder Sudarshan has scored 7 fifties. The flop show of finishers and lower-middle order after the departure of Sherfane Rutherford has left the number 4 and 5 positions a headache for GT. Glenn Phillips and Tom Banton have not been able to show consistency in the chances they got. In the lower order, there is pressure on Rahul Tewatia and Shahrukh Khan to finish the match. Both have been quite inconsistent this season. 4 big match-ups of the match Weather and pitch report Big score expected in Dharamshala, 80% chance of rain A lot of runs have been scored on the HPCA ground this year. Out of 6 innings of 3 matches played here, 5 have scored 200 or more. In all three matches, the team that won the toss bowled first and chased the target. There are 80% chances of rain in Dharamshala on Tuesday. If Qualifier 1 is washed out due to rain, Bengaluru will reach the final without playing as it was on top after the league stage. Possible Playing-11 ———————————————————-
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IPL का क्वालिफायर-1 आज, बेंगलुरु-गुजरात में मुकाबला: जीतने वाली टीम को फाइनल का टिकट, धर्मशाला में 80% बारिश के आसार
