Following Sunday’s IPL 2026 final versus Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Ahmedabad, the Gujarat Titans players and support personnel had to be evacuated from the team bus due to a short circuit that caused the vehicle to break down while transporting them back to their hotel.
According to PTI, the team members waited on the road for a short while before another bus was scheduled to transport them to the hotel. Despite smoke spreading inside the bus, the team members are all safe and unharmed.
GT had already lost to Royal Challengers Bengaluru by five wickets in the IPL final, and the incident made their night much more terrible. Additionally, GT’s difficult travel schedule continued as they had to travel from Dharamsala to Mullanpur on May 27 in order to play the Rajasthan Royals in the Qualifier 2 on May 29.
However, the terrible weather in Mullanpur caused an unreasonable delay in their planned departure to Ahmedabad on May 30. Late on Saturday night, GT arrived at their home base.
Was the Titans’ weak capitulation to RCB in the IPL final due to exhaustion?
“I don’t want to take away from the fact that RCB have won by simply stating that we’ve had this number of games in these short days and we’re fatigued and that’s not really what we’re about,” PTI quoted Vikram Solanki, GT’s Director of Cricket, as saying in the post-match press conference.
“Admittedly, it (155/8) was a below par total but they showed great fight to try and defend it. We might make an assessment of what we might have done differently, that’s a given. But I think you’ve got to accept that the opposition sometimes play well as well,” he added.
