GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Keeps his composure as Stoinis misses his length! That's his go-to shot, lapping it and using the pace to help it along for six!
It's a terrific shot under pressure in the last over, really well played by Washi, who ends on 40*.
Suddenly, they are one point behind PBKS! And level on points with second.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Another terrific yorker from Stoinis, Arshad just digs it out – they can scuttle through for one.
Washi on – getting tight!
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Similar flick, and falls just a touch short of Shedge at square leg! Does well to keep it in front of him and restrict it to two.
Next ball is a precious dot! Pressure on again…
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Always the issue defending a small total! Even good balls can go to the fence and make things tricky. Good yorker on the back foot but he gets enough bat on it to help it run away for four!
6 needed off 5…
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: That won't help! Stoinis burns a bouncer and gives away a wide too. Now just 10 needed off 6 with one bouncer up his sleeve…
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Sublime from Arshdeep, gives nothing away. So clutch at the death when his team needs him the most.
Arshad has strike – this won't be easy, but GT still with noses ahead. Two or three good strikes needed.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Not the cleanest hit from Holder but that might still be in the gap… NOT QUITE! Connolly with a sensational running effort! Makes so much ground and watches the ball all the way, a sublime catch!
GT suddenly in a bit of trouble. Arshad Khan will come in, can he manage something special?
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Here's Arshdeep Singh. If he can deliver a terrific over than pressure will be on Stoinis in the last.
Three off the first two balls… 14 needed off 10.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Tewatia essentially sweeps it, and hits it really well, but somehow straight at Bartlett! A little higher or a little to his left or right and he gets six, but instead has to walk back with work still to be done for GT!
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Not what GT needed! Sudharsan doesn't get enough power on the pull shot – tries to go big, but even towards the shorter side of the boundary, can't get enough on it! Smart catch by Bartlett in the deep.
Sudharsan out for 57 – 40 needed off 31, can Punjab make some magic?
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: A couple of sweeps for four, Sudharsan going along nicely. On a difficult track for batting, showing his value to this team by simply sticking around and keeping the runs ticking along. Half-century for him.
48 needed off 36.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: PBKS take a wicket against the run of play now! Some width, Sindhu chases it, and no control as he is rushed by the pace. Vyshak covers good ground and takes the catch.
Pressure right back on!
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: GT were beginning to sweat a little bit, so that's a crucial over – no crazy risks, but good batting from the two lefties. Sudharsan adds on a four at the end, onto 40*.
72 needed off 54.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: No boundaries in nearly 5 overs and this was coming! Dug in by Vyshak, and a lovely pull shot to send it for six.
One boundary an over is what GT are gunning for. That is the one.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: GT not exactly running away with it – not a pitch where boundaries are proving easy to come by. But this only means PBKS can grow into it.
Sudharsan the key man here – can PBKS expose the middle order for this underdone GT team?
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Buttler tries to stride down and hammer it but the two-paced nature means he is too early through it! Off the toe-end off his bat and straight into the air, gobbled up by Iyer who doesn't contain his emotions! PBKS believe they are alive.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Good powerplay for GT – Sudharsan gets a six away with a lovely pickup-pull to the fence.
106 needed off 84 now.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: There comes the big over courtesy Jos Buttler! First a scoop as he loves it, walking across and picking up six, then fired down leg from Bartlett for 5 wides, and then carved away with a cut shot for four!
The makings of a huge over. 16 runs off it.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Nothing fast and furious from GT at the moment. They might be looking for a big over in the powerplay, but no panic at the moment.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: An IPL legend at his best! Overpitched from Jansen from around the wicket, an effortless swing of the bat, almost lazy to send it flying over long off for six! What a hit.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: BIG MOMENT! Playing across the line is so tough on this pitch, with variable bounce. Just a little extra needed there for Arshdeep, who forces a massive top edge from the GT captain. Loops up and easily taken by Connolly at point!
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: He's so good off that length. Relatively short but not much, and hammered square for his first four of the day.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Welcome back for the chase. GT know they can go about it at their own tempo, the way their top 3 love. Filtered with beautiful shots like that – not even too full, but well played and into the gap for four.
Sudharsan beginning to tick now.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Doesn't get it! Rashid good enough to hang it up outside off and produce the mistake.
163/9 is what PBKS make. They will need their bowling to really step up tonight.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Important hit! Jansen will want to get at least two more away in these last three balls off Rashid to give himself and his colleagues something to defend.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: ANOTHER ONE AND IT'S AN ABSOLUTE PEACH! Jason Holder on fire – pitches on a length, Bartlett tentative early, and enough grip in the pitch to garner some movement and take his bails off!
What a week for Jason Holder.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Stoinis falls right as he would look to explode! Tries to flat bat one off Holder down the ground, but doesn't get enough of it, and knows it immediately. Bat twists in his hands and floats over to long-on for an easy catch.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Shedge tries to play an uppercut off Rabada, but doesn't get enough of the bat. Thin edge through to Buttler, but key 57 from the batter.
126/6 with 16 overs through. Can Stoinis and Jansen get them to 170-180 or even more?
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Stoinis next to tee off with a big six, and a couple of balls later Shedge knocks it for a single to reach a fifty. He has played a terrific knock here.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Much-needed for Punjab! They needed an over like this to get the wheels moving, and young Suryansh Shedge responsible for it!
Three sixes and a couple of fours in that over off Suthar, the bowling change doesn't work.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: License for the young Mumbaikar to begin attacking now. Bided his time but taking it on now – hets some width from Suthar and deposits it over long on. The next ball is overpitched, and the same result!
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Shedge connects! Much. needed for some momentum. On his hips and does really well to whip it away for six.
Taking their time but this pair needs to start hammering them. Jansen to come and Harpreet can come in to provide a batting option as an impact sub as well.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: PBKS batting going nowhere at the moment. Rashid Khan just into his spell too – it's a bad matchup for Stoinis. They need to take their chances against the seamers, him and Shedge.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Can't stop Jason Holder at the moment! In some vein of form. Quick and into the surface, just a touch of extra bounce, and Shreyas undone by that as he tries to glance it down to third. Chops it onto his stumps – it's suddenly 47/5!
PBKS with questions to answer.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Jason Holder in amongst the wickets for GT in recent times! After a strong showing against RCB, it's a wicket in his first over – Nehal Wadhera this time!
Angled across, prods at it, thick edge and very well taken by Buttler.
36/4, trouble time!
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: A third wicket in the powerplay, this time it's Rabada! Just a little skiddier than Prabhsimran was expecting, tries to hit it on the up but has no control over it. Sliced over to cover, where it is comfortably taken.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Not often you see this. Punjab able to get nothing away, Iyer succumbing to a couple of massive risks to get boundaries in that over. This is a team that enjoys playing all guns blazing.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Shreyas and Prabhsimran settle things down. Big shots under wraps, but a couple of boundaries to get the runs moving. GT are a team who like bowling their pair of Siraj and Rabada right through the powerplay.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Mohammed Siraj on fire! Perfect ball first up, pitches and straightens with extra bounce, cuts Connolly in half, and gets a thin edge! Buttler does the rest – the umpire takes his time but makes the right call, and PBKS also burn a review!
Iyer survives the hat-trick delivery.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Huge slice of luck for Priyansh Arya on the first ball of Mohammed Siraj! Huge top edge flies towards fine leg, but there's no fielder there – Buttler with the gloves has to run across the entire way and put in a huge dive, but he's a little too far!
It doesn't matter though, Siraj strikes next ball! Arya falls – tries to slice awya over point but catches too high up the bad, and over to the backward point fielder on the fence. Sindhu on debut puts in a good effort and holds on! Dream start for GT.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Nishant Sindhu earns a debut in the middle order.
GT XI: Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler (wk), Washington Sundar, Nishant Sindhu, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Arshad Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Manav Suthar
Impact: Rahul Tewatia, Glenn Phillips, Anuj Rawat, Kulwant Khejroliya, Kumar Kushagra
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Xavier Bartlett returns for Punjab.
PBKS XI: Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Priyansh Arya, Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (c), Marcus Stoinis, Suryansh Shedge, Nehal Wadhera, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal
Impact: Harpreet Brar, Vishnu Vinod, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Musheer Khan, Mitchell Owen
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Toss doesn't go Shreyas Iyer's way – the home team wins it and opts to bowl first.
Team news next.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: 30 mins from the toss in Ahmedabad. One of the rare grounds in the country where batting first has provided good results fairly often. Punjab pride themselves as a chasing team – Gujarat know they likely don't have the firepower to set something daunting enough. The home team will prefer to chase, so expect both teams to want to bowl first today.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Arshdeep Singh has been one of the quandaries of IPL 2026. An uber-dependable performer for India in the shortest format, he has not looked close to that level in this IPL. Whether it's a poor patch of form, a desire to experiment, or him simply being found out a touch, is difficult to tell. With PBKS' bowling suffering, they need their lead seamer to turn up and take responsibility – something he is certainly not alien to achieving with ball in hand.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: The two teams started their campaign this year with a match against one another in Mullanpur, on a slow surface in a game that went right down to the wire. Chasing a score just north of 160, Punjab should have been easy favourites, but things were complicated as Prasidh Krishna took a flurry of wickets in the middle overs of the chase. It took a performance of great confidence and maturity from the Aussie debut to take his team over the line.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: Punjab have become a winning machine under Ricky Ponting and Shreyas Iyer, thanks in large part to the terrific strength of their batting. But their bowling has threatened to come undone for a couple of games, and it finally happened as they leaked far too many bad balls to Sunrisers last week, handing them a first loss of the season, and something they need to change.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: A couple of weeks ago, GT were in trouble after a heavy, bruising loss to MI, which seemed to have exposed their top order. In the matches since, they have come roaring back with excellent bowling performances, and are suddenly 2 points off second place, 3 points off first.
GT vs PBKS LIVE Score: The second half of a Sunday double header as the calendar turns over into May. Another important match in the context of the playoff race – the team leading the top 4 takes on the team sitting right outside of it, which at the moment has a chance to play catch-up and get right on their tail with a win. Big game in Ahmedabad!