With six points from five matches, Gujarat Titans have climbed to the fourth spot in the table. (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill was all smiles after leading his team to a thrilling five-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders in their IPL 2026 encounter at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday. While pleased with the result, Gill admitted his team would have preferred to finish the chase earlier.The win marked GT’s third straight win this season, after triumphs over Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants. The Titans climbed to fourth place in the table with six points from five games. In contrast, KKR’s struggles continued as they remained winless with just one point, rooted at the bottom.“Honestly, I don’t think it’s important. The only thing that matters is the win and of course, playing the final and winning the cup would be something I’m looking forward to. (after you got out, you thought it was taking longer than you wanted?) Yeah, ideally we’d like to finish at least one over, a couple of overs before and I was quite disappointed with how I got to the next end and I wanted to get to the end. I would have done it.” Gill said.“(on Siraj and Rabada bowling 3 at the trot early) Honestly the way they both bowled it looked like they could get a wicket on every ball and give them an extra one at the end, I saw the ball twitching a bit so the decision was made, I asked them both if they were ready to give one more little one because it’s not that easy on ball three. added Gill.Gill led from the front with a magnificent 86 off 50 balls, hitting eight fours and four sixes as GT chased down 181 in 19.4 overs.“(on his batting) Yeah, definitely. I think conditioning was something I got a few months before that. And conditioning was one thing I worked on. And also just working on the mental aspect of the game and trying to improve, not just technically but tactically. (how do you improve technically and mentally?) It’s all about mistakes, try to stay too far in the present or not. from them, but you don’t want to dwell on them, and that’s something that’s always a conscious decision, you go to bat or you go to field, your mind takes you to all sorts of places but it’s important to stay present,” he said.
