India, April 25 -- Virat Kohli made the Gujarat Titans pay in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 fixture at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday. The chase master once again stepped up with the bat, scoring 81 runs off 44 balls, setting up the Royal Challengers Bengaluru's (RCB) chase of 206. In the end, the defending champions won the contest with five wickets in hand and seven balls to spare. However, the Gujarat Titans would have been in the contest had Washington Sundar not made a costly error in the opening over.

The Gujarat Titans had the chance to send Kohli back to the hut for a duck in the opening over, but Sundar ended up dropping a sitter off the bowling of Mohammed Siraj. This was all the luck that the 37-year-old needed, an...