{"id":14573,"date":"2026-05-09T15:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/05\/09\/ipl-2026-shubman-gill-sai-sudharsan-equal-all-time-ipl-record-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:14:23","slug":"ipl-2026-shubman-gill-sai-sudharsan-equal-all-time-ipl-record-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=14573","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Shubman Gill-Sai Sudharsan equal all-time IPL record | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130979771,imgsize-51438,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/shubman-sai-0905-ipl.jpg\" alt=\"IPL 2026: Shubman Gill-Sai Sudharsan equal all-time IPL record\" title=\"Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan  (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL) \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan  (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL) \">Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan  (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL) <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans openers <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shubman-gill\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Shubman Gill<\/a> and Sai Sudharsan continued their incredible partnership streak in IPL 2026 during Saturday\u2019s clash against <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rajasthan-royals\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Rajasthan Royals<\/a> at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. The Gujarat Titans opening pair once again laid a rock-solid foundation, tormenting the Rajasthan Royals bowlers with yet another century stand.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The duo brought up their 100-run partnership in just 8.1 overs, completely dominating the RR bowling attack. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wLCOS vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"ap_Bf\">\n<div class=\"ZM4zO\">\n<p><i class=\"bo2C4\"\/> <span>Watch<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->Why Suryakumar Yadav is set to lose India T20I captaincy: All you need to know<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>With this stand, Gill and Sudharsan equalled the record for the most century partnerships for the opening wicket in IPL history. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>The GT pair now have six 100-plus stands together, matching the achievements of legendary Sunrisers Hyderabad opening pairs David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan, and Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Only a few iconic IPL opening combinations feature on the elite list. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Warner and Jonny Bairstow had registered five century stands for SRH, while Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli also have five century opening partnerships for Royal Challengers Bengaluru.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/><span class=\"strong\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">Most century stands for the opening wicket in the IPL<\/span><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>6 &#8211; David Warner &amp; Shikhar Dhawan (SRH)<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>6 &#8211; Abhishek Sharma &amp; Travis Head (SRH)<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>6 &#8211; Shubman Gill &amp; Sai Sudharsan (GT)*<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>5 &#8211; David Warner &amp; Jonny Bairstow (SRH)<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>5 &#8211; Faf du Plessis &amp; Virat Kohli (RCB)<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/>Earlier, Rajasthan Royals stand-in captain Yashasvi Jaiswal won the toss and opted to bowl first against Gujarat Titans. Jaiswal led the side in the absence of regular skipper Riyan Parag, who missed the game after suffering a hamstring injury in RR\u2019s previous match.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"37\"\/>GT made one change to their playing XI, bringing in Prasidh Krishna in place of Manav Suthar, while RR included Shimron Hetmyer and Yash Raj Punja.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"39\"\/>Teams:<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"41\"\/>Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal (c), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Shimron Hetmyer, Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Shubham Dubey, Dasun Shanaka, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Brijesh Sharma, Yash Raj Punja.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"43\"\/>Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Jason Holder, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Arshad Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"45\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/ipl-2026-shubman-gill-sai-sudharsan-equal-all-time-ipl-record\/articleshow\/130979786.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan (Image credit: BCCI\/IPL) NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans openers Shubman Gill and Sai Sudharsan continued their incredible partnership streak in IPL 2026 during Saturday\u2019s clash against Rajasthan Royals at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. The Gujarat Titans opening pair once again laid a rock-solid foundation, tormenting the Rajasthan Royals bowlers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}