{"id":2437764,"date":"2026-05-30T00:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2437764"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:19:10","slug":"drama-before-first-ball-rajasthan-royals-win-controversial-re-toss-against-gujarat-titans-in-qualifier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/drama-before-first-ball-rajasthan-royals-win-controversial-re-toss-against-gujarat-titans-in-qualifier-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Drama before first ball! Rajasthan Royals win controversial re-toss against Gujarat Titans in Qualifier 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">A strange moment created confusion and controversy at the toss ahead of the Rajasthan Royals versus Gujarat Titans clash after the coin flip had to be conducted twice.<\/p>\n<p>Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag had made the call during the first toss, but match referee Prakash Bhatt stated that the call was not heard clearly enough. With uncertainty over the original call, the officials decided to redo the toss altogether.<\/p>\n<section class=\"consent\"\/>\n<p class=\"\">The second toss once again went Rajasthan Royals\u2019 way, with Parag winning it before opting to bat first on the same surface that hosted the Eliminator earlier in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The incident immediately became a talking point because of the importance of the toss on a used pitch expected to slow down significantly during the second innings. Interestingly, Gujarat Titans captain Shubman Gill later admitted his side would also have preferred to bat first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would have batted first as well. Forty overs of cricket already on this wicket and it won&#8217;t behave differently,\u201d Gill said after the toss.<\/p>\n<p>Parag, meanwhile, backed Rajasthan\u2019s decision to put runs on the board first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will bat first. Pretty much the same wicket, but I think it slows down at the backend, and we have the bowlers for it,\u201d Parag said.<\/p>\n<p>With conditions expected to get tougher for batting later in the game, the unusual re-toss only added extra drama before the high-stakes encounter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teams:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gujarat Titans<\/strong> (Playing XI): Sai Sudharsan, Shubman Gill(c), Jos Buttler(w), Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Kagiso Rabada, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rajasthan Royals<\/strong> (Playing XI): Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel(w), Riyan Parag(c), Donovan Ferreira, Dasun Shanaka, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Nandre Burger, Brijesh Sharma, Yash Raj Punja <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange moment created confusion and controversy at the toss ahead of the Rajasthan Royals versus Gujarat Titans clash after the coin flip had to be conducted twice. Rajasthan Royals captain Riyan Parag had made the call during the first toss, but match referee Prakash Bhatt stated that the call was not heard clearly enough. 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