IPL 2026: GT vs SRH Highlights, Match 56 - Stats, Player of the Match & More

Gujarat Titans (GT) registered their fifth successive win of the Indian Premier League 2026 (IPL 2026), beating Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 82 runs in Match 56 on Tuesday, May 12 at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. Being asked to bat first, GT posted a good score of 168/7 in their allotted 20 overs, riding on half-centuries from Sai Sudharsan and Washington Sundar (50 off 33).

In reply, SRH were skittled for just 86 in 14.5 overs, their lowest score in IPL history, with Jason Holder, Kagiso Rabada (3/28) and Prasidh Krishna (2/23) running through their batting line up. It was also the biggest victory margin by runs for Gujarat Titans in their IPL history.

Meanwhile, following their massive win, GT climbed to the top of the IPL 2026 points table with eight wins from 12 matches, having 16 points to their name. On the other hand, SRH maintained third position with 14 points from 12 matches.

Top run-scorer of the Match

Top wicket-taker of the Match

Player of the Match

Kagiso Rabada was adjudged Player of the Match for his brilliant bowling spell. The speedster broke the back of SRH’s famed batting line up, getting big scalps of Abhishek Sharma (6 off 4), Ishan Kishan (11 off 7) and Smaran Ravichandran (9 off 15) to leave them reeling at 32/4 in 5.5 overs. Rabada finished with figures of 3/28 in four overs, playing a key role in his team’s record victory.

Turning Point

Chasing a modest target of 169, SRH were favourites to win the fixture, given their firepower in the batting order. However, they were blown away inside the powerplay with their famed opening duo of Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head departing within the first ten balls of the innings. They couldn’t really recover after the early blows and eventually failed to chase down the modest target.

What did the captains say:

Winning Captain, Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans):

Like we spoke at the toss, it was pretty nice. But I think we bowled very well. 170 on this kind of a wicket, we always knew it was going to be tricky. If we bowl well, we’outside the leg-stump always be in the game. We spoke about if we get anywhere close to 160-170, I think it won’t be easy for them, especially with our bowling attack. So that was the chat in the middle and also, given their batting line-up, especially the top three, I think the plans worked perfectly fine. Yeah, definitely. But also, I think the way Sai and Washi batted, getting us close to 170 at one point it looked difficult to reach there and also, the way we bowled in the powerplay, we have been bowling pretty well in the powerplay. So kudos to both of our bowlers. Honestly, it’s all about still being consistent, still trying to be as ruthless as we can. We play the kind of cricket where we are not the kind of team that plays a particular style or brand of cricket. We want to be the team that sees the wicket, assesses the conditions. If it’s a batting first 240 wicket, go for it. But it’s also important to assess that the wicket is not that easy, and getting those 170-180 runs is better than getting 140-150. (Talks about Holder) He’s such an experienced campaigner and the kind of lengths he’s been hitting, he’s been very relentless for us, bowling almost in every game, four overs on the trot. Not easy in this weather, but he’s doing a terrific job for us.

Losing Captain, Pat Cummins (Sunrisers Hyderabad):

I feel they bowled really well in that second innings. I was pretty happy with when we walked off at the start, but yeah, pretty tricky wicket. I think they made the most of it, their bowlers, they bowled really well. So, yeah, maybe try and look at ways to get through that spell, but, you know, they deserve a bit of credit. Yeah, I mean, you always look at it. It looked like a pretty tough wicket once you kind of hit that back of the length and they didn't really give us much to score. So, perhaps in our bowling innings, you kind of, you learn from that, you think maybe we could have held our lengths just a little bit longer. But overall, you know, I thought that, that's as good as T20 bowling as you're going to see from them. Our batting order's been fantastic. So I don't think we need to read it too far into today. I think all four of our top four have over 400 runs. So, the guys are going really well. This happens in T20 cricket. So we go to a couple of venues that we know quite well. So, take some confidence into that. (On qualification scenarios) I think getting ahead of the count pretty early (is important). I think we won five or six out of the last seven. Gives you a bit of breathing room these last few games. So, yeah, we've still got two games yet to qualify. So again, going back to what got us those wins in the first place and yeah, putting this one behind us pretty quickly.