2 OUT! TAKEN! Rabada responds strongly and this is his 18th Powerplay wicket this season, according to Ian Bishop on air. Rabada keeps bashing the hard length, and keeps the line of attack on the off pole. Venkatesh Iyer tries to play the pull shot, but loses his shape a bit and the extra bounce means that the ball gets sliced over mid off. Shubman Gill turns around to his left, backtracks some yards and takes a fine catch while running. Rabada ends Venkatesh Iyer's fun and RCB are 21/1 after 2 overs. 21/1

8.2 OUT! DRAGGED ON! Jason Holder strikes gold for the Titans. The West Indian gets Kohli again this season, and in almost identical fashion too. A real sense of deja vu as he once again wins that battle. He lands this short of a length and around off, holds up on the surface a bit and comes back in a touch. Virat Kohli stays back and looks to heave across the line, but only manages to get an inside edge back onto the stumps. Holder is off in celebration, and no one can catch him. Massive wicket in the context of this game, as Kohli trudges off after a quick cameo. RCB are 93/2. 93/2

8.4 OUT! EDGED AND GONE! Jason Holder has turned this game on its head with a double strike. From over the wicket, he bowls this on a good length and in the channel outside off, gets it to move away a bit too. Devdutt Padikkal gets stuck in his crease and opens his bat face to try and run it down to third man, but ends up getting a slight nick behind, where Jos Buttler makes no mistake. There is a big appeal, and after a bit of thinking, the umpire raises his finger. Holder is off again, but Padikkal takes a review after a chat with his partner. UltraEdge shows a big spike, confirming the edge. RCB lose both set batters and a review as well. 94/3

16.1 OUT! TAKEN! Kagiso Rabada gets a big wicket on his return to the attack. He bangs this into the pitch, on middle and leg, takes pace off. Krunal Pandya looks to pull it away but gets tucked up and cannot free his arms. It flies off the top edge towards deep mid-wicket, where Sai Sudharsan comes forward, takes it very low, but manages to hold on to it. Royal Challengers Bengaluru are 189/4 in 16.1 overs. 189/4

18 OUT! CASTLED! The extra ball brings in a wicket for Prasidh Krishna. He goes fuller and on middle, good pace on it and just shapes in a touch. Tim David clears his front leg to slog it across the line but misses it completely and the ball rattles the stumps behind. RCB are 214/5, and Jitesh Sharma is the new batter in for them. Mohammed Siraj will bowl the penultimate over. 214/5

2.3 OUT! HIT WICKET! One of the rarest dismissals you will ever see, and it is just really unlucky for Sai Sudharsan. Jacob Duffy hits the hard length and around off, Sai punches it off the back foot with sweet timing through covers. He plays it with a high elbow, but loses the grip of the bat as it twists in his hands. It falls on the pitch and somehow bounces to kiss the leg stump, with one of the bails falling down. Everyone seems to be confused about what has happened here. The ball is over the fence, but RCB players are celebrating. Sudharsan cannot believe it but has to walk back now. GT are 17/1, chasing 255 runs. 17/1

3.1 OUT! KNOCKED HIM OVER! Too early to say, but RCB have done half their job already as the GT openers are back in the hut in just 19 balls. And according to Ian Bishop on air, this is the sixth time that Bhuvneshwar has got Gill dismissed in the IPL. Over the wicket, 139.4 kph. Lands on a good length around middle and cuts back sharply off the pitch. Gill goes hard across the line, front leg out of the way, but he is cut in half. The ball threads through the bat and pad gap, beats the inside edge, and rattles the stumps. Gujarat Titans are 27/2, needing 228 runs from 101 balls. 27/2

4.5 OUT! BOWLED'EM! Josh Hazlewood has the last laugh here and lets out a big roar, which shows how much this means to him as he is a man of few emotions. He cleverly rolls his fingers and bowls the leg-cutter, on a length and on off. Jos Buttler makes room but does not pick the slower one. He slashes at it, but the ball skids through to beat him and rattles into the off pole. Butter's fun is short-lived, and RCB are well and truly on top here. 51/3

5.1 OUT! CAUGHT AND BOWLED! It's all falling apart for the Titans rather quickly now. Bowls from around the stump, does Rasikh, on a good length, and angling into the batter. Nishant Sindhu is squared up and tries to stab it straight, but ends up chipping it tamely back to the bowler. Rasikh Salam responds quickly by diving to his right on the follow-through and scooping the ball before the ground. However, there's an umpire's review for a fair catch. The replay shows that the fingers are underneath the ball and it is deemed a clean catch. GT are 51/4, chasing 255. 51/4

8.2 OUT! CAUGHT IN THE DEEP! Duffy further twists the knife as he has his second wicket. Hits the hard length, on top of off. Washington Sundar is forced to arch back to make room for himself to play the ramp shot over deep third. He goes through the shot but it is too close to his body to play that kind of shot. Airs it to the deep third region where Josh Hazlewood runs across to his right, along the circumference of the boundary, and takes a nicely-judged catch. Sundar throws his head back in disarray and that sums up his team's evening. Gujarat Titans are 65/6, chasing 255. 65/6

5.4 OUT! TAKEN EASILY! Wicket number 2 for Salam and RCB can feel that they have one foot inside the finale. Cross-seam delivery, on a back of a length, outside off, and Salam manages to extract some extra bounce. Holder looks to pull through mid-wicket by standing tall, but the ball climbs sharply on him, taking the upper half of the bat. It lobs tamely to Hazlewood at mid on, who takes it without fuss. The Titans are reduced to 51/5, needing 204 runs in 86 balls. 51/5

18.1 OUT! TAKEN! Bhuvneshwar Kumar adds another to his tally. That's his 26th wicket this season. Length ball, around off. Rahul stays leg side and looks to smash it over cover, but mistimes it badly as he is deceived by the lack of pace. Cannot control the shot and slices it in the air to the left of cover where Rajat Patidar leaps a bit and takes a fine tumbling catch at the edge of the circle. RCB are just one wicket away as GT are 156/9. 156/9

10.3 OUT! EDGED AND GONE! Jacob Duffy gets his third. He hits the deck hard and angles it into the batter this time. Rashid Khan charges down the track to pull it away but gets tucked up and the extra bounce takes the outside edge. The ball flies behind, where Jitesh Sharma takes a fine catch with a leap to his left. RCB are just three wickets away from the win now. 78/7

11.2 OUT! CAUGHT! Krunal Pandya gets his man now. He tries his infamous short ball once again and manages to get the lift he wants this time, on middle. Kagiso Rabada transfers his weight on the back foot to pull again, but the ball gets big on him. He mistimes the shot wide of long on, where Virat Kohli covers a lot of ground to his left and takes a fantastic catch around his knees. Mohammed Siraj is the new batter in for GT as they are reduced to 88/8. 88/8

19.3 OUT! CAUGHT! It's all over. Royal Challengers Bengaluru qualify for the Grand Finale of IPL 2026. They beat the Gujarat Titans by a massive margin of 92 runs. Flatter and quicker outside off. Siraj clears the front leg, swings across the line and sends it ballooning high into the night sky off the top edge. The ball hangs forever between mid on and mid off before Tim David, the tall Australian, comes thundering in from long off and flings himself into a dive to complete a stunning catch. Caps off a commanding display across all departments by RCB. Joyous faces all around the RCB camp and why not? They are now just one step away from defending their title. 162/10