GT vs RCB IPL Highlights: Jacks' 100*, Kohli's 70* drives Royal Challengers Bengaluru to easy victory vs Gujarat Titans

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli has struck at 155 with 35 boundaries in the powerplay, but only strikes at 123 in the middle overs hitting just 13 boundaries. GT will look to exploit this by introducing spin early against Kohli, who has a strike rate of under 140 against each of Rashid, Sai Kishore and Noor.

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: The GT captain's personal form has been as topsy-turvy as the team's results. In the last five matches, he has scored 19, 72, 8, 35 and 6.

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: The Orange Cap has stayed on Kohli's head for the vast majority of the season but it does with a pretty significant asterisk. Kohli has scored 430 in nine matches with three half-centuries and one season but his strike rate stands at 145.76. This comes in a season where openers are generally striking at about 170, with the likes of Travis Head staying over 200.

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Considering RCB did manage to beat SRH in their previous match, Virat Kohli's 51 off 43 balls in that game proved to be an effort in a winning cause. However, the reactions of the batter showed that he himself didn't play the kind of knock that the team needed. Kohli raced to 23 in his first 11 balls, he took 32 deliveries to score the next 28 runs struggling against left-arm spinner Shahbaz Ahmed as well as the left-arm seam pair of Jaydev Unadkat and Natarajan who bowled an assortment of slower balls.

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Among the major reasons for GT's extraordinary success in their first two seasons of the IPL was Mohit Sharma stifling batters in the death overs. This season, Mohit did his thing in the early part of the season but seems to have been found out in the recent games. This has meant that Mohit is going at an economy of 11.65 in the death overs in IPL 2024.

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Mohammed Siraj has had rather contrasting fortunes against Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill. Saha has fallen to Mohammed Siraj three times in six meetings, Gill has a strike rate of 159 against the RCB pacer

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rashid has a great record against RCB's three key batters in T20s. He has dismissed Kohli twice in eight meetings, while Faf du Plessis and Dinesh Karthik have fallen to him three times in nine and eight meetings respectively.

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Cameron Green and Rajat Patidar finding runs might lead to Glenn Maxwell to extend his self-imposed exile from the team. 

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: If Kohli has a questionable strike rate against spinners, the opposite can be said about Patidar. This season against the spinners, his strike rate is a stunning 225 at an average of 67.

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Now the last game for them at this venue may have been a forgettable one but that isn't the case for the last time a match was played here. 

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli's strike rate against pace in IPL 2024 is 162.57. However, against spin it drops down to 123.58.

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Was one that the team and the fans would love to forget. DC put them to bat first and GT were shot out for a score of 89. DC then chased that down in nine overs. In a tournament where 200-plus scores are becoming par for course, this game sticks out.

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: The two sides have met each other on three occasions where the Gujarat Titans have had the upper hand with 2 wins in the bank in the head-to-head against RCB.

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Wriddhiman Saha(w), Shubman Gill(c), David Miller, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmad, Mohit Sharma, Sandeep Warrier, Sai Sudharsan, Sharath BR, Manav Suthar, Vijay Shankar, Darshan Nalkande, Matthew Wade, Umesh Yadav, Kane Williamson, Jayant Yadav, Abhinav Manohar, Joshua Little, Kartik Tyagi, Spencer Johnson, Sushant Mishra

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik(w), Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Suyash Prabhudessai, Anuj Rawat, Himanshu Sharma, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Swapnil Singh, Glenn Maxwell, Reece Topley, Tom Curran, Mayank Dagar, Alzarri Joseph, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Saurav Chauhan, Rajan Kumar

GT vs RCB IPL Live Score, Gujarat Titans vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru: We move to scorching Ahmedabad where the Gujarat Titans host the Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Consistency has been hard to come by for both sides and, especially in case of the latter, the same can be said about luck. RCB came within a run of going past their highest-ever IPL record. However, while they had won by 130 runs when they scored 263/5 back in 2013, they lost by 25 runs in the match where they scored 262/7 earlier this season. RCB then came within a run of KKR's 222/6 and then, finally, crossing 200 helped them end up on the winning side in their previous match. The fact that it came against the marauding SRH would be of even greater satisfaction for them. Now, they face an inconsistent Gujarat Titans, whose extended run of beginners luck seems to have ended this year. They cruised through the group stages in 2022 and 2023, winning the title in the first season, which was their first ever in the IPL, and reaching the final in the second. Now, they are placed seventh and have to go through a scramble if they are to make it to the playoffs.