Sundar's six finishes it as Holder's four-for sets up Gujarat's third straight win
Gujarat Titans turned a one-sided bowling performance into a tense chase before getting it done at the Narendra Modi Stadium, beating Punjab Kings by four wickets with a ball to spare on Sunday night. It was a third successive win for Shubman Gill's side, who joined the 12-point cluster behind PBKS at the top of the IPL 2026 table.
Holder's four for 24 leaves Punjab pinned
Mohammed Siraj struck twice in the opening over to remove Priyansh Arya and Cooper Connolly, and Punjab never recovered the powerplay, finishing it on 35 for 3, the lowest they have managed all season. Jason Holder then ran through the middle, sliding past Nehal Wadhera and skipper Shreyas Iyer once the field opened up to leave PBKS at 47 for 5, before later returning to clean up Marcus Stoinis and Xavier Bartlett. He finished with figures of four for 24, his best of this campaign.
The recovery came from a stand only Punjab could have planned for. Suryansh Shedge made 57 from 29 balls and Stoinis added a 31-ball 40, dragging the total to 163 for 9. Watchable cricket from Shedge in particular, but every shot looked like it was buying time rather than setting up a defendable score.
Sudharsan again, then Sundar with the finish
Sai Sudharsan kept his run going at the top of the order with 57 off 41 before Vijaykumar Vyshak got him with a short ball that he could only miscue to the leg side. Gujarat looked comfortable at that point, and then they did not. Two quick wickets in the back end, a slowing run rate, and suddenly PBKS were back in the conversation with three overs left.
Washington Sundar would not let the chase tip. He held the strike when he could, found the boundary when he had to, and cut the equation down ball by ball. The end came in the 20th over, a Stoinis full toss scooped over deep backward square for a six that made the maths irrelevant. Sundar was unbeaten on 40 from 23, with Arshad Khan eight not out alongside him.
A clogged top half of the table
Punjab stay first on 13 points but their net run rate took a hit, dropping from plus 1.043 to plus 0.855. Gujarat move to 12 points and slot fifth on a tiebreak, joining Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rajasthan Royals on that mark. With four matches still to play for most teams in the cluster, the order is going to keep shifting until the very end of the league stage.
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