Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Gujarat Titans meet in the IPL 2026 final on Sunday, May 31, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
GT finished the league stage in second place, separated from RCB at the top only by a slender net run rate gap. Seven wins from their last nine outings tell the story of a side that grew stronger as the competition grew stronger.
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Their Qualifier 1 loss to RCB was heavy, but rather than unravelling, the Titans came back with purpose, eliminating Rajasthan Royals in Qualifier 2 to force this rematch.
While GT were fighting their way through Qualifier 2, RCB had already secured their place in the final with a dominant performance a week earlier. Rajat Patidar’s 93 off 33 balls set the tone, inspiring his side to a total of 254/5.
The bowlers then did their job neatly, dismissing the Titans for 162 to wrap up a 92-run win that announced RCB as serious title contenders once again.
Who are the commentators for the IPL Final 2026 between RCB & GT?
In a bid to cater to a diverse audience, the IPL, in collaboration with broadcasters and the BCCI, is set to provide coverage in several Indian languages.
From Malayalam and Marathi to Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Hindi, and English, fans can enjoy the final match according to their preference.
| Category/Language | Commentators and Experts |
|---|---|
| English | AB de Villiers, Aaron Finch, Dale Steyn, Faf du Plessis, Eoin Morgan, Kevin Pietersen, Michael Clarke, Sunil Gavaskar, M Kartik, Ian Bishop, Simon Doull, Danny Morrison, Darren Ganga, Knick Knight, Graeme Swann, Alan Wilkins, Mpumelelo Mbangwa, Anjum Chopra, WV Raman, Raunak Kapoor, Mitchell McClenaghan, Katey Martin, Simon Katich, Harsha Bhogle, Ravi Shastri |
| Hindi | Ravichandran Ashwin, Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Suresh Raina, Anil Kumble, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sanjay Bangar, Piyush Chawla, Mohammad Kaif, Ajay Jadeja, Umesh Yadav, Cheteshwar Pujara, Aakash Chopra, Saba Karim, Padamjeet Sehrawat, Anant Tyagi, Deep Dasgupta |
| Tamil | RJ Balaji, Muthuraman, Vishnu Hariharan, Ashwath Bobo, KV Satyanarayan, Subramaniam Badrinath, Yo Mahesh, Sadagopan Ramesh, Thirush Kamini, Baba Aparajith, Baba Indrajith, R Sridhar, Russel Arnold, Abhinav Mukund |
| Telugu | MSK Prasad, Hanuma Vihari, NC Kaushik, T Suman, Kalyan Krishna, Ashish Reddy, Akshath Reddy, Ravi Teja, Kalyan Kollarappu |
| Kannada | Vinay Kumar, Vijay Bharadwaj, Srinivas Murthy, Kiran Srinivasa, Sumesh Goni, Shashank Suresh, Bharat Chipli, K Gowtham, Pavan Deshpande, GK Anil, B Akhil, J Suchith, Veda Krishnamurthy |
| Bhojpuri | Sumit Mishra, Saurabh Singh, Shivam Singh, Gulam Hussain, Satya Prakash, Abhay Kumar, Jwala Singh |
| Punjabi | Sarandeep Singh, Chetan Sharma, Rahul Sharma, VRV Singh, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Mandeep Singh, Gurjit Singh, Sunil Taneja |
| Haryanvi | Manvinder Bisla, Anil Chaudhary, Sonu Sharma, Ajit R, Ashish Hooda, Sumit Narwal, Vishwaas, Ravin Kundu |
| Marathi | Dhawal Kulkarni, Kiran More, Salil Ankola, Aditya Tare, Prasad Kshirsagar, Praveen Tambe, Prasanna Sant, Chaitanya Sant, Ganesh Joshi |
| Gujarati | Sheldon Jackson, Nayan Mongia, Atul Bedade, Rakesh Patel, Bhargav Bhatt, Aseem Parikh, Akash Trivedi, Manpreet Juneja |
| Malayalam | Sachin Baby, Vishnu Hariharan, VA Jagadeesh, CM Deepak, Rohan Prem, Sony Cheravatur, Raiphi Gomez, Manu Krishnan, MD Nideesh, Aju John Thomas |
| Bengali | Shreevats Goswami, Jhulan Goswami, Saradindu Mukherjee, RJ Varun, Sanjeeb Mukherjea, Subhomoy Das, Shiladitya Chatterjee, Anustup Majumdar, Raja Venkatraman, Gautam Bhattacharya |
| Presenters | Mayanti Langer Binny, Tanay Tiwari, Bhavna Balakrishnan, Suren Sundaram, Swedha Bahal, Nidhi Dugar, Natasha Cheriath, Sahiba Bali, Nashy Singh, Sameena Anwar, Vindhya M, Prathyusha Sadu, Roopesh Shetty, Madhu M, Reena D Souza, Debi Saha, Shalinee Singh |
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